Paul Potts is "The Man"

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Originally Posted by danlisa

Undiscovered - Yes
Un-Trained - No

Paul Potts actually paid for tutoring lesson from Pavarotti. Pavarotti noticed his talent and tried to get Paul to continue his training fulltime, however, Potts didn't take the risk.

Still, with Simon Cowell behind him the only way Potts is going is up.:p

That remains to be seen, looking and listening into the CD, I must say his voice is good, his singing is competent, but the selection of tracks is a listing of populistic trivialities. Also, it deserves respect to have the courage to sing in front of a live audience at a casting show, but it is something very different to sing a 3 hours opera for a whole evening. He has a great talent, and made use of it to secure his living, but I doubt that he will stay around for longer. And if even he does not try to turn around his life and now start a longer and serious career, than I will not think bad of him and say that probably not going that way is the clever choice to make. The classical music business (no enagaging at theatre, but the CD market) is a battlefield. We have seen greater talents being rolled over, and many of them. The established artists sometimes even are worse than the necomers, nevertheless they are established, and they often use that influence within the industry brutally. Sad, but true.