Britian’s Got Talent Winner Paul Potts Releases His Album
Britain’s got talent winner Paul Potts who was and still is a 36 year old mobile phone salesman has just released his album on 16th July 2007 just one month of him performing on the TV show.
It has also been anounced that Paul will be doing a 20 date UK tour starting which will be starting on the 21 January 2008. Paul is scheduled to appear at Cambridge, Nottingham, Harrogate, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Sheffield, Cardiff, Manchester, Liverpool, Brighton, Oxford, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Bristol, Birmingham, Stoke, Ipswich and London
Paul first started to sing opera at the age of 28 at a karaoke competition where he dressed up as Pavarotti.
He went on to perform in Barrymore’s My Kind Of Music in 1999.
Paul has attended various training courses in Italy and he was selected to sing in a master class for Pavarotti and Katria Ricciarelli.
Since Paul was ill he has struggled with money and has never reached his potential, and this is why he chose to enter Britain’s Got Talent.
With out a doubt Paul’s life has changed and his dream has come true not bad for someone who used to stack shelves at tescos and now a carphone warehouse manager!
What do you think of Paul’s voice?
Will you be buying his album?
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I have just listened to Paul’s CD and I think it’s great. I read that it has been slated elsewhere, but the public’s buying power will tell the real story.
Paul Potts has a true, pure tenor voice that with practice and coaching can only improve.
Those that are slating his CD are either deaf or daft!!
No ugly duckling becomes a swan overnight and Paul, I am sure, would be the first to acknowledge that he is only on the threshhold of his,what I am sure will be,a very successful and financially secure future.Give him the time to smooth the ” rough edges ” of his presentation.
I suggest to anyone buying his CD - close your eyes and let yourself be enveloped by the music,then applaud a true artist.
Professional opera critics are sniffing and huffing and puffing that Paul Potts does not deserve all this favorable attention and success. Yet the worst they can say about his voice is that it is rough and “untrained.” Well what else would it be but untrained. His circumstances up until now have not permitted him the time or money to train his voice as he would like to and I am sure that Potts would be the first to admit that.
I sense some petty jealousy on the part of those who view themselves as guardians of the elite opera world. They are not comfortable with an “outsider” coming in to record a CD whose fans come from the great unwashed who do not speak Italian but know what they like when they hear it. Paul Potts will do more to expose a new generation to the beauty of opera than all the professional opera critics ever will.
What makes this such an enjoyable listen IS the fact that tis is an unpolished stone that was able to strike a nerve in our tear ducts.
Before the “pro’s’ throw stones let them try to place themselves in the limelight WITHOUT all the help-socially.
The final question is really –how many have you sold??
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