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KC//CRIMSON
6/15/2007, 05:45 PM
:cool: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA :cool:

and....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rDB9zwlXrB8

Suerreal
6/15/2007, 05:56 PM
Can't help but think of a Harry Chapin song, "Mr. Tanner".

It starts out:
Mister Tanner was a cleaner from a town in the Midwest.
And of all the cleaning shops around he'd made his the best.
But he also was a baritone who sang while hanging clothes.
He practiced scales while pressing tails and sang at local shows.
His friends and neighbors praised the voice that poured out from his throat.
They said that he should use his gift instead of cleaning coats.

You can see Harry perform it here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ea6cgfU8bC4

yermom
6/15/2007, 06:05 PM
i smell a ringer

KC//CRIMSON
6/15/2007, 06:23 PM
I just love how this quiet, average joe, blue collar guy walks in and says he wants to sing opera and the judges look at each other like:rolleyes: and then after he's done they're picking their jaws off of the ground.

OCUDad
6/15/2007, 09:45 PM
i smell a ringerApparently so does the British press:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2001320029-2007270918,00.html

StoopTroup
6/15/2007, 09:51 PM
Good Opera either makes you in awe or cry...

I think you have just seen a guy who has done alot of work to live his dream...

Very cool.

KC//CRIMSON
6/15/2007, 09:52 PM
I gotta think that if you're classically trained and given lessons by Pavarotti, you don't work in a warehouse.

OCUDad
6/15/2007, 09:59 PM
I gotta think that if you're classically trained and given lessons by Pavarotti, you don't work in a warehouse.Respectfully disagree. I'm with Stoop - here's a guy who has chased his dream for years and (apparently) spent all his spare cash on lessons to help him achieve the dream. Nothing wrong with that.

StoopTroup
6/15/2007, 10:03 PM
Checkout Pavarotti...

Nessen Dorma (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATmgtmR5o4&mode=related&search=)

StoopTroup
6/15/2007, 10:05 PM
This one in Tuscany by Bocelli is one of my favorites...

Bocelli (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbGKQ8YASCY)

sanantoniosooner
6/15/2007, 10:11 PM
opera is the soccer of singing ;)

KC//CRIMSON
6/15/2007, 10:14 PM
Respectfully disagree. I'm with Stoop - here's a guy who has chased his dream for years and (apparently) spent all his spare cash on lessons to help him achieve the dream. Nothing wrong with that.


What I'm saying is I don't think the above link/article is accurate.

KC//CRIMSON
6/15/2007, 10:26 PM
opera is the soccer of singing

So it rocks? Yeah it rocks!

SicEmBaylor
6/15/2007, 10:28 PM
opera is the soccer of singing ;)
Soccer is also the soccer of football.

proud gonzo
6/15/2007, 11:08 PM
so what, anybody actually expects somebody can sing opera like that without any training? And likewise, do people actually think that just because you can sing like that means you'll have a JOB doing it? **** no! Do people throw fits if the kids on American Idol have had vocal coaching? Geez. I've never watched that show OR America's Got Talent, but I doubt anyone who goes on that show with a real talent hasn't practiced or taken some kind of measure to improve him or herself at that talent.

sanantoniosooner
6/15/2007, 11:18 PM
I walked out on a stage and juggled chainsaws for the very first time.

I would have won if that judge hadn't given me the finger. Or loaned it anyway.

OCUDad
6/15/2007, 11:34 PM
There's plenty more fingers where that one came from.

yermom
6/15/2007, 11:42 PM
so what, anybody actually expects somebody can sing opera like that without any training? And likewise, do people actually think that just because you can sing like that means you'll have a JOB doing it? **** no! Do people throw fits if the kids on American Idol have had vocal coaching? Geez. I've never watched that show OR America's Got Talent, but I doubt anyone who goes on that show with a real talent hasn't practiced or taken some kind of measure to improve him or herself at that talent.

they were playing it up that he was just some mobile phone salesman though

i'm no vocal expert or anything, but that dude seemed way too polished to just be some guy that got lessons or something

OKC-SLC
6/15/2007, 11:48 PM
I could care less what his background is. dude's exceptional.

Suerreal
6/15/2007, 11:50 PM
Sometimes, dreams don't come true.

There's a lot of popular singers out there who have a parent who gave up their dream of being a singer to earn a living/raise their children, but worked extra hard to help the kid pursue their own dream of singing.

Sometimes, the unsung singer is content with the shower, the church choir, or the cab of a semi as their only stage. Sometimes they do pursue a few years of auditions, vocal lessons, searching for new material, and come up short professionally. With reality TV, they can go back later to uncage the dream and see where it may take them.

Others wait until they're 73-92 and join a group called Young@Heart for touring and singing Coldplay, Outkast, and a-ha.
Singing Seniors Redefine Rock Songs (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PP8D1G0&show_article=1&cat=0)

yermom
6/15/2007, 11:53 PM
I could care less what his background is. dude's exceptional.

well, it's not good TV to talk about his real background

i'd kinda compare it to someone like Nate Hybl going back to play HS Football or something ;)

SicEmBaylor
6/15/2007, 11:54 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u6k-99qcCE

SCOUT
6/16/2007, 12:16 AM
well, it's not good TV to talk about his real background

i'd kinda compare it to someone like Nate Hybl going back to play HS Football or something ;)

I am confused. I thought he really was a mobile phone salesman. If that is true why should his practice have anything to do with it. The article said he paid for all of his training (about 2K pounds). The touring he did was part of the study he paid for.

Did I misread the article?

OKC-SLC
6/16/2007, 12:18 AM
well, it's not good TV to talk about his real background

i'd kinda compare it to someone like Nate Hybl going back to play HS Football or something ;)
heh.

LoyalFan
6/16/2007, 02:18 AM
Pol Pot? I didn't know Cambodian commies were into opera.

But seriously, the guy CAN sing and I wish him every success, so long as he doesn't double on oboe.

LF

KC//CRIMSON
6/18/2007, 12:04 PM
Paul Potts wins Britain's Got Talent.

Singing mobile phone salesman Paul Potts woke up £100,000 richer today after winning television show Britain's Got Talent, and revealed that he will spend part of his prize money clearing debts and improving his teeth.

Paul Potts, 36, won over the nation with a performance of Nessun Dorma in the final of the hit ITV1 talent show, watched by 12.1 million viewers.

The former Tesco shelf-stacker from Port Talbot, South Wales, will now perform in front of the Queen at the Royal Variety Performance.

Potts said that his win had not yet sunk in but that he was planning to pay off his £30,000 debts - although he was not 100-per cent sure about giving up his day job.

Doctors treated him for appendicitis and removed a benign tumour, while Potts also broke his collarbone.

He landed a job at Carphone Warehouse after battling back to health and married a woman he met on the internet.

Today Potts said: "There are a few people who are going to want me to pay off some debts.

"Two years off sick knocks you for six when all you have to live on is your credit card. I had to work hard just to keep my head above water.

"I still can't believe I'm in this position. I don't know how long it's going to take to sink in. At the moment it's all a bit of a haze."

Potts, who has also landed a record deal with Simon Cowell, the TV show judge, said of fixing his teeth: "I'm not sure about veneers but I do want to get the crown repaired. It would be nice to be able to smile naturally. I feel very self conscious about it at the moment. But whatever I do I'm not going to change who I am."

"I'm a team leader at Carphone Warehouse but I don't think anybody is expecting me back. I'll just see what happens," he added.

Potts said of his wife, Julie Ann: "I would like to treat her to a nice holiday, maybe a safari. That would be a nice luxury item."

Final Performance: :cool: http://youtube.com/watch?v=K_5W4t_CBzg

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6/18/2007, 12:28 PM
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jk the sooner fan
6/18/2007, 03:23 PM
whether he had coaching or not, he still brought the voice to be coached....you either have it or you dont

he has it

Soonrboy
6/18/2007, 03:45 PM
this one makes the hot girl in the middle cry...

http://www.glumbert.com/media/connie

Xstnlsooner
6/18/2007, 04:01 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX6c5als1lk

stoops the eternal pimp
6/18/2007, 04:18 PM
All I know is that he gave the female judge the big O about 5 times during his performance

StoopTroup
6/19/2007, 04:13 AM
I think the Paul Potts Story is an incredible story...

Whether in The good ole USA or Great Britian...

This has to be one of the best in Music in a long time...

Go Paul...