Month of August , 2007

New Zealand fans can now purchase ticket.
Or you can fly to New Zealand (why not)
Tickets are on sale now.

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With Paul Potts new album “One Chance” recently debuting Number One in both the UK and New Zealand, audiences will be lucky enough to hear the man himself when he tours throughout the country in April 2008. The rich, powerful and mesmerizing voice of rising star Paul Potts has touched the hearts of millions since his win on TV’s hot new talent show “Britain’s Got Talent” in June. His hauntingly beautiful rendition of Puccini’s Nessun Dorma stunned the shows judges and audiences alike, leaving many moved to tears. Don’t miss your chance to see this phenomenal talent live

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Brit singer brings opera to the people

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August 31, 207

Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts has already sung for Luciano Pavarotti - and now he is bringing opera to the people. The 36-year-old from Port Talbot in south Wales was transformed from mobile phone salesman to opera sensation when he won the English TV talent show in June. His performance of Giacomo Puccini's Nessun Dorma in the grand final brought the house down, and landed Potts Stg100,000 ($A248,000) in prize money and a record deal. It has since become one of the all-time most watched clips on YouTube, with over 10 million viewings in nine days. Now the shy classical music lover is in Australia for a promotional visit ahead of a national tour next April. Potts says his life has changed immeasurably since he rocketed to fame.

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Old rockers and reality TV star to perform

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August 29, 2007

Seventies soft rock band America and overnight opera sensation Paul Potts are to perform in Rotorua. In a coup for Rotorua, Grammy Award winners America, who have been making music for 35 years, will perform at the Energy Events Centre on December 14 as part of their Live in Concert tour. The band will also perform in Wellington and Christchurch in December and Rotorua beat Auckland to host a concert on the back of the success of the Glen Campbell concert in March. America, then consisting of Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek, found fame in 1972 with the song A Horse With No Name.

From salesman to superstar in 7 days

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In seven days, 36-year-old British man Potts went from selling mobile phones to winning Britain's Got Talent and signing a one million pound ($2.4 million) record deal. His debut rendition of Puccini's famous "Nessun Dorma" was not quite Pavarotti, yet there was something about the portly man from South Wales with his crooked teeth and hard luck story that made him an instant sensation. Within hours of his performance, millions of internet users had started clicking on to see him on YouTube. Potts is in Australia this week as part of a world tour to promote his first album, which has already hit the number one spot in Britain and across much of Europe.

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Share the dream with Paul Potts

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Aug 29 2007

IT’S been a very eventful few months for Paul Potts. One minute he was an unknown with bad teeth and the next he was the nation’s classical music darling, cwtching up to Katherine Jenkins and being flown across the world to wow them Stateside. On June 17 two million votes were cast by the British public, crowning the Welshman as winner of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent competition. It was the moment the tenor’s future was made and his dreams came true. Since then he has become a household name. In an exclusive ITV Wales documentary, the cameras have been following the tenor on his journey, tracking his rise to the top and mapping how completely life has changed for the former salesman from Port Talbot.

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09:00 - 28 August 2007

Bullies who targeted chart star Paul Potts have apologised to the Britain's Got Talent winner. The Port Talbot singer has revealed his former tormentors have been getting in touch to apologise for picking on him at school. The singer was bullied by other pupils because of his love of opera, the same passion that has now made him a chart success. Paul said: "I've turned my negatives into positives. "I've had one or two people who I knew from back then call and congratulate me. "In fact one who used to bully me sent me a message on one of my websites and apologised. "As far as I'm concerned, though, what's in the past stays in the past. "It's done and you can't change it." Paul is currently in Australia promoting his debut album, One Chance.

PAUL POTTS IN CONCERT - TICKETS ON SALE THURSDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER
TOUR DATES AND VENUES:

Wed 16 April - Adelaide Festival Theatre
Book at Bass Dial n Charge 131 246 or www.bass.net.au

Fri 18 April - Brisbane QPAC, Concert Hall
Bookings through qtix.com.au or phone 136 246

Sun 20 April - Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall
Bookings through SOH Box Office 02 9250 7777 or sydneyoperahouse.com or Ticketek.com or phone 132 849

Mon 21 April - Melbourne the Arts Centre, Hamer Hall
Bookings through ticketmaster.com.au or 1300 136 166

Wed 23 April - Perth Burswood Theatre
Book at Ticketek 132 849 or www.ticketek.com

Interview with shot clips of documentary of Paul Potts in Hong King.


By South China Morning Post - SCMP.com
Aug 28, 2007






Paul Potts Singer Album Promotion

The ‘One Chance’ that was enough

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August 28, 2007



HONG KONG, China—Paul Potts’ voice sounded raspy and almost faltered near the end of “Time to Say Goodbye” (“Con Te Partiro”), the first of three numbers he sang for the media during his promotional appearance here recently.



He would later explain that he had a nasty case of laryngitis and was getting over a heavy cold.



“Opera can be very challenging,” he said, laughing, “especially when you’re running out of breath.”



Born in Bristol, England and currently a resident of South Wales, Potts, 37, is the overnight celebrity who won the maiden edition of “Britain’s Got Talent” (“BTG”), the UK version of the widely popular search-for-a-singing star TV show “American Idol.”
Bowled over


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Paul Potts is in Sydney Australia right now.
News articles and video clips are popping up everywhere.



I will organize them (hopefully) after work.
For now, you can find the links from below pages.



Paul Potts articles & media
http://www.paulpottsfanclub.com/paul-potts-links



Bulletin board under "Paul Potts News"
http://www.paulpottsfanclub.com/paul-potts-fan-forum

Paul Potts pushing his own luggage.
Similar scene took place in New York when he visited the US last time.



Images at Getty website
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=76212883#

Potts - from cellphone salesman to opera poppet
August 25, 2007

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If Paul Potts wan't such a poppet, I might have been tempted to throttle him. This is because he says the same things, over and over and most of these things he's so fond of saying are platitudes.

"I'm just me," he says, and, "I'm just who I am." He says these things, oh, at least a thousand times and that's not counting all the times he's said them to other people.

Other favourites are, "I just do feel incredibly privileged to be doing what I love doing," and, "I'm just taking one day at a time."
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Paul Potts New Zealand Fanclub

Paul Potts in Chinese News.
Interview, subtitle... interesting.
August 08 25

Paul Potts is scheduled to visit New Zealand, April 2008
Lately I have been noticing that New Zealand papers are buzzing with Paul Potts.

Article from Stuff.co.nz

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Singing took him to No 1 in the charts, then across the world to New Zealand. Unlikely Welsh superstar Paul Potts talks to Rachael Fergusson about his life-changing experience.

It is a real-life fairytale - the former cellphone salesman turned famous opera singer.

It happened to Paul Potts, a 36-year-old Welshman who won Britain's Got Talent, a New Zealand Idol-type competition. Singers, actors, magicians, bartenders and dancers of any age battled it out to win cash and perform in front of the Queen.

Potts won, and now is in New Zealand promoting his aptly named album One Chance.

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Paul Potts in China 22/8/2007



TV talent winner Paul Potts is in Hong Kong promoting his album One Chance and soon goes on to tour New Zealand and Australia .



The 36 year-old former phone salesman from Port Talbot topped HMV Hong Kong's Classical Chart for three consecutive weeks.



He told Chinese TV station CCTV: "I never dreamed that I would be able to actually find myself on the other side of the world from where I live, doing what I love doing.



“And you know, if somebody told me six months ago that I would be here. I would've told them, you know, get out of here, there is no way on earth that that would happen."



Potts will sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Performance in early December.



"I am sure that I will do what I normally do, think of it off, and try to think of it in advance. But at the end, I am someone who really doesn't rehearse anything that I say.



“So hopefully, I will say the right thing," said Paul.


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He won a TV talent competition. Now he has a new album and is an overnight sensation. He's Paul Potts, winner of "Britain's Got Talent," which is the U.K.'s answer to American idol.

Now the 36 year-old vocalist is in Asia, promoting his debut album. The Album "One Chance," topped HMV Hong Kong's Classical Chart for three consecutive weeks.

Potts astounded both judges and the "Britain's Got Talent" audience when he first sang on the show. His world class operatic voice was an instant hit with viewers who voted for him in droves to win the competition.

The British television show was created by Simon Cowell, the man behind "American Idol".

Since his victory, Potts has become an overnight success not only in Britain, but throughout the United States, Australia and parts of Asia.

The former mobile phone salesman claims he spent most of his life feeling insignificant.

Potts used to perform with the Bath Opera, but fear of rejection always prevented him from trying to make it professionally.

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Apparently, he broke several rips. This sounds painful.

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August 21, 2007

Piers Morgan, the “America’s Got Talent” judge, wiped out on his segway and broke several ribs.

Attention! Piers Morgan does not have the talent to ride a segway. The “America’s Got Talent” judge hit a curb at the Santa Monica Pier while riding his segway and tumbled off.

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August 19, 2007

PAUL Potts, a shy 36-year-old from Bristol, gave himself one chance to crack the big time doing what he loves, and he did it.

The former mobile phone salesman entered TV talent quest Britain's Got Talent this year and won the whole box and dice.

"It was me who convinced me to go on the show,'' Potts says.

"I wasn't sure that I was good enough so I ended up tossing a coin and doing it by heads or tails. It landed on heads, which was the go-ahead to send in an application.''

In a moment that is now famous, Potts strolled out on to stage looking awkward and nervous in a "35-pound'' ($85) suit and declared to the judges - show creator Simon Cowell and fellow judges Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan - that he was going to sing opera.

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Confidence breeds success
First of two parts
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The world of show business seemed to be a million miles away for Paul Potts when he first stepped on the stage to compete in "Britain's Got Talent."



A mobile phone sales person by day, an opera singer in secret, Paul Pott's dream was, "To spend my life doing what I feel I was born to do -- to sing opera."



It was his secret because, like most of us I am sure, he had felt that look from others -- the one you get when you share your dreams with negative people who "think small."



When I watched the judges' initial reaction to Pott's dream to sing opera, and then watched the judges' and the crowd's final reaction, there was no question that he had a chance of making his dream come true. The emotion behind Paul Potts' performance was so powerful that anyone watching would want to jump out of their chair and take some type of action to reach for their dreams.


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Paul’s a worldwide hit, even in Korea!

Aug 16 2007
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PAUL Potts has won glowing praise for his debut album in Korea, as the former Port Talbot mobile phone salesman continues to take the world by storm.

Australian albums chart - August 13, 2007



1(1) The Dutchess - Fergie (A&M/UMA)

2(3) I'm Not Dead - P!nk (LAF/SBME)

3(2) Call Me Irresponsible - Michael Buble (RPS/WAR)

4(-) One Chance - Paul Potts (SBME)

5(12) Life In Cartoon Motion - Mika (ISL/UMA)

6(5) Dream Days At The Hotel Existence - Powderfinger (UMA)

7(7) Minutes To Midnight - Linkin Park (WARNER)

8(9) The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani (INR/UMA)

9(15) Sneaky Sound System - Sneaky Sound System (WHA/MGM)

10(6) Back To Basics - Christina Aguilera (RCA/SBME)

Sun Aug 12, 2007

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LONDON (Reuters) - Singer-songwriter Kate Nash took the top spot in the album charts on Sunday, the Official UK Charts Company said.



The Harrow-based songstress went straight in at number one with her debut album, "Made of Bricks".



She pushed Paul Potts, winner of television show "Britain's Got Talent", into second place in the album charts with his debut offering, "One Chance", following three weeks at the top.



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The final show of America's Got Talent will air next week August 21st. It's been rumored that Paul Potts will be singing as a guest singer there.



I read that on several different websites, but I am still not sure if he is actually coming to America next week. (I don't believe everything I read online).

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Winner of Britain’s Got Talent Paul Potts topped the UK album charts with his debut release One Chance – just weeks before his appearance in Carlisle.

The 36-year-old opera singer is living his dream after being voted the winner of the television talent show a few weeks ago after belting out his hit Nessun Dorma.

Potts’ album outsold the number two album, We’ll Live and Die in These Towns by The Enemy, by more than 100,000 copies last week.

Potts, who started singing at a karaoke party dressed as Pavarotti, said: “To even get through the first round of auditions was unbelievable and to be honest even winning the show hasn’t sunk in yet at all – having a number one album is more than I would ever have dreamed of.

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The whole world is talking about Pavarotti's condition.



Below is an excerpt from Washington Post article this morning.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/09/AR200708...



The 71-year-old tenor, who underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer last year, was brought to Modena's Polyclinic on Wednesday and was being kept under observation. Doctors were expected to release him in coming days, according to separate statements from the hospital and his manager, Terri Robson.

Artist Spotlight: Paul Potts
August 3, 2007

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The rich, powerful and mesmerising voice of rising star Paul Potts touched the hearts of millions with his win on TV’s hot new talent show, Britain’s Got Talent.  Watched by 13.5 million in the finals, his rendition of Puccini’s Nessun Dorma stunned the show's judges and audiences alike, leaving many moved to tears.

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