Paul Potts

I stumbled on this You Tube a few weeks ago and was quite  moved by it.
Here’s the editorial review from Amazon:
“Britain’s Got Talent winner Paul Potts had spent most of his life feeling ‘insignificant’. Bullied at school for being ‘different’, he realized growing up that he had one true friend and that was his voice. Singing was his escape. He was able to lose himself in his own little world – the vicious words of his tormentors replaced by hauntingly beautiful lyrics and melodies that lifted his heart and spirit. It was a love, a passion, a lifeline that would follow Paul into adulthood and help him through many more periods of adversity.
Though it’s fair to say that when Paul strolled awkwardly – almost apologetically – onto the Cardiff stage for his first Britain’s Got Talent audition a week before that final, in his now infamous £35 Tesco suit, and announced to Simon and fellow judges Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan that he was going to sing opera, they never thought for one minute they were looking at their winner. Until he opened his mouth and started to sing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEo5bjnJViA

I don’t follow talent shows(no TV, remember?), so this may be old news, but I love the fact that he was an under-dog working a regular job, but could sing like that and wasn’t recognized for it.

Well, now he is, of course.

I just purchased his first album,  

One Chance,

and he is introducing a new one called

Passione.

This comes out on May 5th.

All I can say is,

 ”WOW”.

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