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Britain’s Got Talent winner and opera star, Paul Potts, will be the headline act at the Parkinson’s UK charity Christmas Concert at 7pm on Friday 9 December 2011.

Paul said: “I was delighted to be asked to perform at this year’s annual Christmas Concert for Parkinson’s UK. I would like to extend a warm invitation to everyone to come along on the night for what promises to be a fine evening of musical entertainment.”

The concert takes place at Central Hall, Westminster, London.

The annual seasonal celebration includes singing, music and celebrity guests.

Parkinson’s UK is entirely dependent on donations. All funds raised from the concert will help the charity find a cure, and improving life for everyone affected by Parkinson's.

“By buying a ticket for the concert on December 9th you will enable Parkinson’s UK to continue with their vital work to help improve the lives of the 120,000 people in the UK with Parkinson’s.” continued Paul.

Tickets will be available from Thursday 1 September and a post-concert mulled wine and mince pie reception is included on the ticket.

Tickets for the concert are £25 (standard ticket price), £19 for Parkinson’s UK members or £15 per person for groups of 8+.

To purchase tickets visit: www.parkinsons.org.uk/christmasconcert or call 020 7963 9319.

For further information contact the Parkinson’s UK events team on 020 7963 9319 or email: events@parkinsons.org.uk

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Paul Potts is in town and has been preparing for this weekend's upcoming Christchurch benefit show with Kiwi songstress Elizabeth Marvelly.

The pair rehearsed together at the Bruce Mason Centre in Auckland this morning in preparation for To Christchurch With Love, the April 2 show that will raise money for the New Zealand Red Cross 2011 Earthquake Appeal.

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Britain's Got Talent star Paul Potts will headline a charity performance at the Bruce Mason Centre to benefit the victims of the Christchurch earthquake.

To Christchurch With Love on April 2 will feature a line-up of more than 100 artists and entertainment industry professionals including Potts, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Dame Malvina Major.

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The 40-year-old Potts admits it was an intimidating proposition to tackle Titanic's My Heart Will Go On, popularized by Montrealer Celine Dion.

"It's always difficult to pick iconic songs but I think we've made sufficient difference to the song for it not to be in anyway disrespectful," said Potts, during a recent promotional trip.

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A CHARITY has been singing the praises of Paul Potts after he signed up as its latest big-name ambassador.

The Britain's Got Talent winner, who has gone on to forge an international recording and performing career, is now a patron of the Treat Trust Wales, which already boasts Michael Sheen as its president.

It was set up by Melanie Davies, who lives in the Swansea Valley but is originally from Port Talbot, where Paul has his home, and aims to develop a £10 million therapy centre in the grounds of Morriston Hospital.

Here's the English translation for the Article I wrote yesterday about Cinema Paradiso. I know the translation is not very good, but I hope you understand it. Please take a look and please feel free to leave your comments ;o)

Friday August 13th, 2010 was a great day for all the Paul Potts fans. There's being a very huge mystery and lots of good surprises regarding his new album Cinema Paradiso. But one of those mysteries was clarified yesterday by the artist on his personal Facebook profile. Paul Potts has finally talked about the eleven tracks that will conform his third album. We all already know that this new CD will be a special tribute to the world of cinema, full of great and unforgettable songs.

Moon River, a Henry Manchini's classic. The words were written by Johnny Mercer and it was part of the soundtrack from the film starred by Audrey Hepburn in 1961 "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Hepburn's performance of "Moon River" helped composer Henry Mancini and lyricist Johnny Mercer win an Oscar for Best Song.

Cinema Paradiso. Composed by Ennio Morricone in 1988. It's the central theme of the movie by the same title.

Parla Piú Piano. Nino Rota took charge of the soundtrack of the cinematographic version of the Mario Puzo's book "The Godfather". In 1972 Francis Ford Coppola directed this film that received Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay, and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The original words in English are by Larry Kusik but the music itself is by Nino Rota. There are also different sets of lyrics for the song in Italian (Parla Più Piano) and also in Sicilian (Brucia La Terra). The Sicilian version is sung by Anthony Corleone in The Godfather 3.

Forbidden Colours is taken from the original soundtrack of "Merry Christmast Mr. Lawrence", a film direct by Nagisa Oshima in 1983. It's music was written by the great Japanese compositor Ryuchi Sakamoto, who, in addition, appeared as an actor together with David Bowie in the movie.

Il mio cuore va (My Heart Will Go On). There is nothing new that can be said about this movie classic. It's the central theme from the 1997 version of the movie "Titanic" directed by James Cameron. The song was written by James Horner y Will Jennings, and produced by James Horner and Walter Afanasieff and co-produced by Simon Franglen who did the rest of the soundtrack for the film. Horner had originally composed the song as an instrumental motif that is used in several scenes during Titanic. He then wanted to make a full vocal song out of it, for use in the end credits of the film. Director James Cameron did not want such a song, but Horner went ahead anyway and got Jennings to write the lyrics. "My Heart Will Go On" won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Original Song. It dominated the Grammy Awards of 1999, winning Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television. "My Heart Will Go On" won also the Golden Globe Award for "Best Original Song-Motion Picture" in 1998. The song also won a Japanese Gold Disc Award, for Song of the Year, as well as a Billboard Music Award for Soundtrack Single of the Year. Now, Paul Potts, offers us a totally renewed version of this classic, with Italian lyrics, specially written for Cinema Paradiso.

Dove non so. This is another unforgettable Hollywood classic. "Lara's Theme" is the generic name given to a leitmotif written for the film Doctor Zhivago (1965) by composer Maurice Jarre. Soon afterward, it became the basis of the song "Somewhere My Love."

Up Where We Belong (Duet) is a song from the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman. Written by Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie, with lyrics by Will Jennings, it was originally performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes. This beautiful song won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1983. It also won the BAFTA Film Awards for Best Original Song in 1984. In Cinema Paradiso, Paul Potts has recorded this song with a female voice as a duet. Unfortunately, we still don't know who she is.

Il Gladiatore. Hans Zimmer y Lisa Gerrard won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for the film "Gladiator" in 2000. Cinema Paradiso offers us the opportunity to go back to the Roman Coliseum by the hand of Paul Potts, who sings the song in Italian.

(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story. "Love Story" is a 1970 romantic drama film written by Erich Segal and directed by Arthur Hiller. The film, well known as a tragedy, is considered one of the most romantic of all time by the American Film Institute. "Where Do I Begin" was written by Francis Lai and lyrics by Carl Sigman. The song was first introduced as an instrumental theme in the 1970 film "Love Story". The lyrics were added after the theme music became popular.

Maria. This is a song from the Broadway musical West Side Story, sung by the lead character Tony. The music was written by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim . The film was released on October 18, 1961, directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. It received praise from critics and the public, and became the second highest-grossing film of the year in the United States. The film won ten Academy Awards in its eleven nominated categories, including Best Picture, as well as a special award for Robbins. The film holds the distinction of being the musical film with the most Academy Award wins (10 wins), including Best Picture. The soundtrack album made more money than any other album before it.

Wonderful World. Actually this is an all times music classic. The great Luois Armstrong was the first one who recorded it back in 1967 and sold more than a million records all over the world. Films director Barry Levinson included it in the soundtrack of the film "Good Morning Vietnam" in 1987.

We will have to wait up to the autumn of this year to be able to enjoy finally what will be, undoubtedly, one of the major successes the young British tenor.

To clarify recent headlines, although it is true that Paul Potts has moved away from Simon Cowell's record label Syco -- this does not mean that relations between the two big names have become in the least bit strained.

Paul Potts states, "For over three years, I’ve enjoyed a very successful collaboration with Simon Cowell and his record label Syco. I have treasured my time with them, and feel that I have learned a lot from everyone there." Paul Potts was the winner of the first season of “Britain’s Got Talent” in 2007, and his career has skyrocketed across the globe ever since.

n an article that Paul Potts has published on his personal Facebook profile, the artist also comments that the conditions of his contract with Syco concerned exclusively the territory of the United Kindom. What this means to the rest of us, is that his new recording “Cinema Paradiso”, the greatly anticipated third album of the British singer, will be released under Sony’s label and see light in every corner of the world in the months to come. This September 2010, Japan will be the first country able to enjoy the album, which is replete with big hits from the world of cinema, as interpreted by vocalist Paul Potts. After the release of  “Cinema Paradiso” in Japan, it will continue to become available in myriad other countries and continents, including throughout the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. Specific release dates will be announced as they become known.

Paul also points out, "Please be reassured that the move away from Syco does not affect the release of Cinema Paradiso in any way; in fact I have been more involved than ever with how the record was made."

An impressive sign about this statement and Paul’s future is that “Cinema Paradiso” has been produced by none other than the famed Simon Franglen, producer of unforgettable hits such as Celine Dion’s version of “My Heart Will Go On” from “Titanic”, and music from“Moulin Rouge” and recent box office sensation “Avatar”.

Recent events seem to point to the first single coming out of “Cinema Paradiso” will be Paul’s own rendition of the Grammy and Academy award-winning smash hit “My Heart Will Go On” . Paul Potts performed the worldwide premiere of this very selection at the Bristol Harbour Festival on August 1st, 2010. As if the song wasn’t romantic enough to begin with, Paul’s version is in Italian, therefore entitled "Il Mio Cuore Va".

Article by Max Rende and Victoria W. Guadagno

Paul Potts First performance of track from 'Cinema Paradiso', Il Mio Cuore (My Heart Will Go On)

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Britain's Got Talent star Paul Potts has reportedly been dropped by Simon Cowell's record label SyCo.

An insider added: "As soon as Susan Boyle came along it was bound to be curtains for Paul.

El cine siempre fue una de las grandes PASSIONES de Paul Potts. De hecho, gracias a la hermosa banda sonora de la película E.T, Paul se enamoró de la música.

Ahora, y tras terminar un exitosa gira mundial, ha querido devolverle el favor al mundo del celulóide dedicándole su nuevo trabajo discográfico.

Tal y como el joven tenor británico anunció no hace mucho en su espacio personal de Facebook: "Será un álbum basado en temas de películas, y estoy especialmente emocionado porque un importante productor de bandas sonoras de Hollywood se encargará de la producción del disco".

El título del álbum no podría haber sido un acierto mejor.

Paul ha elegido como título de su nuevo disco el de una hermosa película italiana de 1988 dirigida por Giuseppe Tornatore: Cinema Paradiso.

El tracklist del CD, cuya selección ha sido hecha personalmente por el mismo tenor y su esposa, aun no se ha hecho público, pero lo que sí podemos adelantar es que, a pesar de que el título del álbum es en italiano, Paul ha grabado canciones en varios idiomas. Así pues, podremos encontrar canciones cantadas en inglés, italiano y alemán. De momento desconocemos si en este nuevo trabajo Paul ha incluído algún tema en español. Entre los fans se rumorea que podría haber alguna canción en francés tambien... pero, de momento, son solo especulaciones.

Cinema Paradiso verá la luz el próximo otoño, y vendrá acompañado por una extensa gira, la cual llevará a Paul POTTS a recorrerse el mundo... una vez más.

¿Vendrá esta vez nuestro ídolo a España? Aun no sabemos nada al respecto, pero no se descarta la opción de que venga a presentar su nuevo CD el próximo invierno, tal y como hizo con Passione el pasado año.

Seguiremos informando...

Noticia redactada por Max Rende

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Paul Will Fly Us To The "PARADISO" With His New Album

Cinema's always been one of the biggest Paul Potts's PASSIONE. In fact, it was when Paul listened to the E.T's original motion picture soundtrack when he fell in love with music.

Now, and after finishing and incredible and hitfull worlwide tour, he wanted to pay back the favor dedicating his new album to the seventh art's world.

As the young tenor said not long a go on his personal Facebook profile: "It is going to be a movie theme based album, and I am excited that a leading Hollywood Soundtrack Music producer is producing the album".

And it's title couldn't have been chosen better.

Paul has chosen the title of a wonderful Italian movie, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore back in 1988. This is Cinema Paradiso.

The tracklist of the new album is been a very special selection of songs done personally by the tenor him self and his young wife but it has not been released yet. But what we can affirm is that, as Paul Potts personally said: "although the title is Italian, there will be English songs sung in English on the album also". We also know that there will be songs in other languages like Italian and German. The fans are talking about songs sung in French, but this is only a speculation and till now we have no way to affirm such thing.

This week Paul Potts has been in Munich "for pre release promotion, called long lead promotion. So called as it is a long way ahead of actual release. All going very well, but sworn to absolute secrecy...", as he affirms on Facebook.

Cinema Pardiso will be released worldwide next autumn and Paul will be traveling soon again all around the world with his new CD in his hands. There is no way of knowing if he will finally come to Spain, but we are totally sure that there'll be a presentation of this new smash hit next winter, the same way he did last year with his second album "Passione".

Please stay tuned for more info coming soon...

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The story of the 'Britain's Got Talent' star - a mobile phone salesman who became an opera sensation after winning the show in 2007 - had been penned for the big screen, with music mogul Simon Cowell lining up 'Kick-Ass' director Matthew Vaughn to oversee the project, entitled 'One Chance'.

However, Hollywood studios have passed on the project and the film has now been shelved.

Matthew told The Sun newspaper: "It should have gone ahead. Simon and I had a good vision for how the film should be, and it would have been brilliant.

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BRITAIN’S Got Talent winner Paul Potts wants Shaun Of The Dead star Nick Frost to play him on the big screen.

Paramount has bought the film rights to the story of his amazing rise to fame on the first series of the show in 2007

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Classical performance artist and ITV’s ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ winner (2007), Paul Potts, is due to walk from his home in Port Talbot, South Wales, all the way to London, via South Korea, in time for his appearance at the SOS Children benefit concert Classic Response which is being held at the Royal Albert Hall on 3 April 2010 and raising funds for those children affected by the Haiti earthquake.

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EACH night, wherever he is performing in the world, Paul Potts dedicates a song to his wife Julie-Ann. For the classical singing star, who was catapulted to worldwide fame after winning the first series of Britain’s Got Talent, it’s his way of thanking her for “just being there” and offering him so much support in his unbelievable journey from nervous, debt-ridden salesman to award-winning multi-million selling artist.

The 39-year-old, from Port Talbot, who won this year’s Best International Artist in the prestigious Echo Awards in Germany, will tonightFRI perform songs from both his albums, One Chance and Passione, as well as a few surprises, including a tribute to Mario Lanza, who died 50 years ago.

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ITV has started making plans for a new reality contest called Popstars to Opera Stars, according to a report.

The competition will see a group of well-known singers training to perform arias before showing off their new vocal skills in front of the nation each week, The Sun claims.

It is thought that opera favourites Katherine Jenkins and Russell Watson are among the famous faces being lined up as judges,

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HE may be more stocky than Rocky, but now Paul Potts’ rags-to-riches story is to be given the similar inspirational Tinseltown treatment.

Proving that Hollywood loves an underdog, the former mobile-phone salesman from Port Talbot-turned-global opera sensation is having the story of his life transformed into a movie script by the man behind the recent Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman comedy-drama The Bucket List.

And, while the end result One Chance should hit our screens as early as next summer, Potts himself was typically unassuming about his meteoric rise being the stuff of good cinema.

“In many ways, I would love for it to be a comedy, because my wife says I’m unintentionally funny and very good at tripping over things,” said the self-deprecating, singing star, who admitted having had several meetings with writer Justin Zackham about the project.

“Besides, who would want to watch a 90-minute sob story?”

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What does a former rock and roll tour manager say about a classical tenor who won a reality show (the first Britain's Got Talent ) in 2007?

In the two years since his victory on that show, Paul Potts has rounded the globe six times, sold almost four million copies of his first CD, "One Chance," won the German equivalent of a Grammy, been the toast of Europe, the Far East, Australia, New Zealand & Canada ("One Chance" being certified platinum many times over in all those countries), embarked on a seemingly endless tour, sang for the Queen of England, and managed to fit in appearances on Ellen, Oprah & countless television gigs across the world.

In the midst of it all, Paul Potts has managed to record a second album, the beautiful, well-crafted "Passione", and embarked on his new tour and seventh circumnavigation of Planet Earth.

When he landed at the Rosemont Theatre July 20th, the assemblage paid homage to the British tenor - loudly and fervently.

The show, a generous two and a half hours long, revealed how hard Paul Potts has worked these last two years since the victory on BGT. On the surface at least, he appears to be supremely confident in his vocal abilities, without losing the everyman appeal with which he began.

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Theresa and William, 47 & 51, civil servants, Restalrig: "We enjoyed everything from the Spanish opening number onwards. It was particularly good to hear Tristesse, based on a Chopin piano piece. Paul Potts seems to be an unassuming sort of person who goes down well with audiences."

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OPERA star Paul Potts may have the world at his feet but he hasn't changed a bit according to wife Julie-Ann.

Since winning Britain's Got Talent two years ago, the Port Talbot tenor has gone from mobile phone salesman to millionaire singing sensation, and there are even plans for his life story to be turned into a film.

But according to Julie- Ann — known as Julz — her hubby still does the shopping and irons his own shirts for concerts.

The 28-year-old said: "We still have to pinch ourselves sometimes. We couldn't afford holidays before, but now we are travelling all over the world.

Paul after losing my husband through alzeihemrs and a fatal accident I flew to Perth on an airflight with Air New Zealand I listened to your wonderful tape Passione for 8 hours. Upon my return to New Zealand I purchased the tape and cannot get over your voice. I believe you are coming to New Zealand and hope Napier is on your list. We have a mission concert here in February hopefully one day you will sing at this venue. Napier is the Art Deco City and in February we have Art Deco Week.
I have never belonged to a fan club but I am so inspired by your voice and want to wish you every success in your singing career and tears that flow in wonder of a truly most beautiful voice

Robynd

Paul,
I hope this finds you,
You have shown me the beauty of
opera Music.thank you for showing me the beauty of what you do. I found you on u tube on mistake. Best mistake I ever made. I love the way you own the vocals. I heard the fellow speak of you in a 5 part series negatively and I could not disagree more. You have shown me what pure passion is about. I saw you in Dallas and my wife and i both cried from hearing you. your voice brings happiness to my life. Thank you, Jason

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Paul Potts, the first winner of British reality TV talent show "Britain's Got Talent," has cancelled his July 21 performance at the Warner Theatre in Washington, DC. A post on his Web site stated a "logistic and production situation which has resulted in the artist regrettably not being able to perform in Washington."

Potts also cancelled his two Mexican concerts on July 2 in Mexico City and on July 3 in Monterrey.

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The annual 10,000 Lakes Festival kicks off tomorrow, July 22, at Soo Pass Ranch in Detroit Lakes, MN.

Event ticketing for Paul Potts and the annual 10,000 Lakes Festival is winding down during the week ending July 27, as compiled by TicketNews.

Paul Potts concludes his brief summer tour of the U.S. this week with a final show booked for tonight, July 21, at Warner Theater in Washington, DC. The national outing began July 6 at the Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie, TX, after Potts' completion of other North American dates in Canada and Mexico. For the remainder of the year, the opera singer is scheduled for a full slate of shows across Europe and the UK.

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Paul Potts heads to Vancouver: Before Susan Boyle, he was the unlikely Britain's Got Talent sensation

VANCOUVER - The world was captivated when singing sensation Paul Potts launched Nessun Dorma through a mouthful of crooked, broken teeth. Those who didn’t see the initial performance on Britain’s Got Talent were swiftly acquainted with it via viral video on YouTube.

That emotional performance, sung in Italian, needed no translation.

Potts is a living example of serendipity in action. While he’d performed in six amateur opera productions prior to a bike accident in 2003 that broke his collarbone and left him with whiplash, a lack of confidence almost prevented him from trying out for the show that changed his life.

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ATLANTIC CITY - Before Susan Boyle, there was Paul Potts.

Once, before the Scottish songstress' famed rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" was still just that, her dream, Potts was the success story of the same U.K. reality TV show, "Britain's Got Talent."

And his arc to stardom was proclaimed similarly - another beloved, cuddly dweeb with a big voice.

The reality was a little more polished - the 38-year-old had sung opera in an amateur way for much of his 30s. But Simon Cowell crowned him in 2007 as the zero-to-hero of the tenor set.

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But two years is a long time in the pop biz. After all the fuss over his Britain's Got Talent successor, Susan Boyle, this spring, you'd be forgiven for having let the image of the plump and plucky would-be opera singer slip from your consciousness.

While Boyle is still riding her wave of celebrity – touring in Britain and busily recording a studio album – Potts is doggedly carrying on his music career.

Although it rose briefly to the top of the charts on its release earlier this year, Potts's second album, Passione, didn't generate the same kind of hoopla he previously enjoyed.