Month of January , 2008

Click here for a complete Paul Potts article from ChronicleLive.co.uk

BRITAIN’S Got Talent winner Paul Potts arrived at Newcastle City Hall last night mid-way through his UK tour.

After the massively popular reality TV show it wasn’t surprising that his tour would sell-out fast, and never a city to disappoint, Newcastle’s operatic lovers packed the venue to its brim.

The show took on an unusual format with the support act, Natasha Marsh, performing at random intervals throughout Paul’s set.

The man himself kicked off the evening with a rose in hand and his now famous voice filling the room.

Early on, he surprised the audience by taking on the REM ballad Everybody Hurts, giving it a new lease of life.

Paul obviously wanted to show his range as a singer and mixed classic religious hymns like Ave Maria with songs from West Side Story.

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Click for complete Paul Potts article from theasiannews.co.uk

When Britain’s Got Talent first aired on television, it’s fair to say it didn’t receive the most glowing reception.

Many critics saw it as the nadir of reality TV contests – by opening the doors for any demented member of the public to demonstrate their ‘talent’ (that term used very loosely), weren’t ITV guilty of enouraging, well, a potential ‘freakshow’?

Naturally, Britain’s Got Talent was always going to encourage its fair share of oddballs (which we laughed at with much merriment), but ultimately, its end goal was sincere – to unearth unique British talent that would otherwise have gone undiscovered.

Enter, then, Paul Potts – the modest mobile phone salesman with the romantic soul and the voice of a Neapolitan opera singer. It’s an unlikely success story, but Potts has an unlikely life story.

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Click for Complete Paul Potts article from scotsman.com

GIVEN a voice of reasonable quality, to be able to trot out the likes of Nessun Dorma or Celeste Aida as isolated concert items is not a very great achievement. To cope with the parts of Calaf or Radames over the span of complete performances of Turandot or Aida, however, the singer must set his sights a good deal higher. The gap between these two levels of attainment separates amateur from professional. The number of individuals who have been able to make the transition from one to the other is quite remarkably small.

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Click for complete Paul Potts concert review from edinburgh-life.com

I watched his first ever television appearance on 'Britain's Got Talent' with as much scepticism as everyone else (including the judges), until that is, he opened his mouth and I was lifted gently into the air and taken on a journey that left me both breathless and awestruck. I duly bought his album and have enjoyed it immensely. Last night however, I witnessed his (almost) full potential. This shy, unassuming superstar wooed his audience not only with his voice, but also his personality. He interspersed the magnificence of the music with amusing anecdotes of the 'real' Paul Potts. There are no airs and graces with this man, no pomposity to his music, just one enormous heart that filled the stage, spilling over onto the ever more adoring audience. The two (yes two) standing ovations he received were truly deserved.

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Paul Potts - Ognuno Soffre Music Video clip


Paul Potts - Prague Opera House Music Video Medley

17 Jan 08 - Rhyl, UK - Pavilion Theatre

18 Jan 08 - Rhyl, UK - Pavilion Theatre

19 Jan 08 - Peterborough, UK - The Broadway

21 Jan 08 - Cambridge, UK - Corn Exchange

22 Jan 08 - Nottingham, UK - Royal Centre

23 Jan 08 - Harrogate, UK - International Centre

25 Jan 08 - Aberdeen, UK - Music Hall

26 Jan 08 - Glasgow, UK - Clyde Auditorium

27 Jan 08 - Edinburgh, UK - Playhouse

29 Jan 08 - Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK - City Hall

30 Jan 08 - Sheffield, UK - City Hall

01 Feb 08 - Cardiff, UK - International Arena

02 Feb 08 - Manchester, UK - Bridgewater Hall

03 Feb 08 - Liverpool, UK - Empire Theatre

05 Feb 08 - Brighton, UK - The Brighton Centre

06 Feb 08 - Oxford, UK - New Theatre Oxford

08 Feb 08 - Plymouth, UK - Plymouth Pavilions

09 Feb 08 - Portsmouth, UK - Guildhall

11 Feb 08 - Bristol, UK - Hippodrome

12 Feb 08 - Birmingham, UK - Symphony Hall

13 Feb 08 - Birmingham, UK - Symphony Hall

15 Feb 08 - Stoke-On-Trent, UK - Victoria Hall

16 Feb 08 - Ipswich, UK - Regent Theatre

17 Feb 08 - London, UK - Hammersmith Apollo

01 Mar 08 - Hollywood, FL - Seminole Casino

02 Mar 08 - Tampa, FL - Tampa Theatre

03 Mar 08 - Washington, DC - Lisner Auditorium

05 Mar 08 - Ledyard, CT - Foxwoods Casino

06 Mar 08 - Westbury, NY - North Fork Theatre

08 Mar 08 - Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata Hotel

09 Mar 08 - Boston, MA - Berklee Performance Center

11 Mar 08 - New York, NY - Town Hall

13 Mar 08 - Hamilton, ON - Hamilton Place Theatre

14 Mar 08 - Montreal, QC - Place des Arts

15 Mar 08 - Toronto, ON - Roy Thomson Hall

17 Mar 08 - Ottawa, ON - Centrepointe Theatre

19 Mar 08 - Edmonton, AB - Winspear Centre For Music

20 Mar 08 - Vancouver, BC - Centre For Perf Arts

22 Mar 08 - Victoria, BC - McPherson Playhouse

24 Mar 08 - Calgary, AB - Jack Singer Concert Hall

26 Mar 08 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern

27 Mar 08 - Mesa, AZ - Ikeda Theater

29 Mar 08 - Mexico City, MEX - Metropolitan Theater

30 Mar 08 - Mexico City, MEX - Metropolitan Theater

06 Apr 08 - Christchurch, NZ - Town Hall Auditorium

08 Apr 08 - Wellington, NZ - Michael Fowler Centre

11 Apr 08 - Rotorua, NZ - Energy Events Centre

13 Apr 08 - Auckland, NZ - Aotea Centre

16 Apr 08 - Adelaide, AUS - Festival Theatre

18 Apr 08 - South Brisbane, AUS - QPAC Concert Hall

20 Apr 08 - Sydney, AUS - Sydney Opera House

21 Apr 08 - Melbourne, AUS - Hamer Hall

23 Apr 08 - Perth, AUS - Burswood Theatre

29 Apr 08 - Tokyo, JP - Bunkamura Hall

30 Apr 08 - Tokyo, JP - Bunkamura Hall

03 May 08 - Seoul, KOR - Welch-Ryang Auditorium

04 May 08 - Seoul, KOR - Welch-Ryang Auditorium

13 May 08 - Hilleroed, DEN - Frederiksborg Slot

14 May 08 - Copenhagen, DEN - Falkoner Theatre

15 May 08 - Copenhagen, DEN - Falkoner Theatre

17 May 08 - Randers, DEN - Estrup

18 May 08 - Aalborg, DEN - Skovdalen

20 May 08 - Odense, DEN - Amfiteater

22 May 08 - Stockholm, SWE - Solnahallen

23 May 08 - Malmo, SWE - Icehall

24 May 08 - Goteborg, SWE - Lisebergshallen

26 May 08 - Malmo, SWE - Icehall

27 May 08 - Oslo, NOR - Oslo Konserthuset

31 May 08 - Odense, DEN - Amfiteater

01 Jun 08 - Copenhagen, DEN - Ballerup Super Arena

03 Jun 08 - Herning, DEN - Messecentre

04 Jun 08 - Sonderborg, DEN - Sonderborg Castle

06 Jun 08 - Helsinki, FIN - Finlandia Hall

08 Jun 08 - Amsterdam, NL - Heineken Music Hall

09 Jun 08 - Amsterdam, NL - Heineken Music Hall

Complete Paul Potts Article - thisisnottingham.co.uk 

Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts is on the ride of his life.

Still singing in a small box room last year, he has gone on to a Royal Variety performance, debut album and now a tour.

With his opening number Ognuno Soffre (Everybody Hurts ) we knew we were in for a very special evening.

He is joined on this tour by Natasha Marsh. She is one to watch. They did a beautiful duet together from Verdi's La Traviata.

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Complete Paul Potts Article - icWales.co.uk

PAUL Potts may have just started a six-month world tour but he isn’t doing interviews.

Far from having a diva moment, however, the former mobile phone salesman who auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent in a £35 supermarket suit, is resting his voice between shows.

It is difficult to believe that this million-selling artist was a total unknown this time last year, selling mobile phones at the Carphone Warehouse at Bridgend Designer Outlet.

But Britain’s Got Talent blasted “Pavapotty” to worldwide fame and, to keep his voice going for six months and longer, he really has to look after it.

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Click for complete Paul Potts Article from Telegraph.co.uk 

Luckily for Paul Potts, it isn't the music that counts, it's the stirring personal saga of impossible dreams and dogged struggle against the odds.

Thanks to the ITV show Britain's Got Talent and the magic wand of Simon Cowell, Potts has been transformed from a chubby 37-year-old mobile phone salesman from Port Talbot into the latest phenomenon of Classitainment.

Boosted by a tabloid press that's happy to define anybody in a dinner jacket who can do a stag-night Nessun Dorma as an "opera star", Potts is embarking on a six-month world tour encompassing Europe, the Americas and the Antipodes.

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Nessun Dorma music video shot in Prague
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Unlike the prior video, this clip plays without commercial.

Click here for a complete Paul Potts Article from icnetwork.co.uk 

PAUL Potts has certainly enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame. In a matter of months, he’s been transformed from a slightly tubby, mobile phone salesman with crooked teeth and debts to his name, into a world-famous opera star with hundreds of thousands of pounds in the bank and shiny new veneers to match his superstar status.

Therefore, it’s no surprise that many of his fans think he has left behind his former life in the small steel town of Port Talbot for a chic pad in London or a mansion in the country.

But that’s far from the case.

“Last night I was on my way back from a night out with friends in Cardiff and was walking through Port Talbot when two women came out of a pub and said to me, ‘You’re Paul Potts aren’t you?’” the tenor tells me.

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Complete Paul Potts Article from NewsWales

It's an exciting time for singer, Paul Potts, who embarked on his world tour this week. The six month tour kicked off yesterday at Rhyl Pavilions in Wales, and Paul will continue performing across the UK until his grand finale at London's Hammersmith Apollo on 17th February.

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Complete Paul Potts Article form ICWales 

PAUL Potts has certainly enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame. In a matter of months, he’s been transformed from a slightly tubby, mobile phone salesman with crooked teeth and debts to his name, into a world-famous opera star with hundreds of thousands of pounds in the bank and shiny new veneers to match his superstar status.

Therefore, it’s no surprise that many of his fans think he has left behind his former life in the small steel town of Port Talbot for a chic pad in London or a mansion in the country.

But that’s far from the case.

“Last night I was on my way back from a night out with friends in Cardiff and was walking through Port Talbot when two women came out of a pub and said to me, ‘You’re Paul Potts aren’t you?’” the tenor tells me.

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At this point, concert promoters are busy assembling their roster of forthcoming gigs. But as it stands, the pop concert calendar looks mighty fine to us: everyone from roots rocker John Mellencamp to crossover opera sensation Paul Potts will make their Victoria debuts in 2008, in addition to welcome returnees Avril Lavigne (March 5) and Steve Earle (March 16).

Until the concert schedule comes into full view, here's an update for those hoping to cure the January blahs.

Click here for Paul Potts concert calendar from this article (Canada.com)

Paul Potts interview on Ellen Degeneres on September 2007
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Click for complete Paul Potts Article from anevibe.com

My Grandfather would have loved Paul Potts. Every Sunday of my formative years I spent at the knee of my working-class Grandfather learning about Opera and Classical Music. It was the stories of regular people with extraordinary skills that always fascinated my Grandfather, and he would have loved cell phone warehouse manager Paul Potts who won Britain’s Got Talent this year and is now taking the world by storm with an opera classic. Pavarotti, Carreras, Caruso, Domingo, Mario Lanza, the Three Tenors, the Ten Tenors, all of operas male singers have contributed their voices to Puccini’s classic Nessun Dorma.  

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Click for complete Paul Potts article from Showbiz Spy (Popup alert)

Paul Potts has revealed he thought he’d blown it at his famous Britain’s Got Talent audition.

The reality-show winner reduced the audience to tears when he belted out a stunning opera song.

But he thought it hadn’t gone that well.

He said: “I could tell that the audience enjoyed it but I actually wasn’t very happy. I thought I’d blown it.”

And Potts, who has now sung in 17 different countries and appeared at the Royal Variety Show, said he was totally stunned when he won.

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Complete Paul Potts article from Yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk 

SINGER Paul Potts, who shot to stardom overnight after winning the Britain's Got Talent television show, is to make a debut performance at Harrogate's International Centre.
The opera singer will appear at the 2,000 seater King's Road venue on January 23, as part of his 22-date British tour, which ends at London's Hammersmith Apollo.

Harrogate Centre's Billie Gill said: "Paul's powerful and mesmerising voice has touched the hearts of millions since his win on the television show."

The TV event's final was watched by 13.5m as the country warmed to Paul's moving renditions of Puccini's Nessun Dorma which not only stunned judges and audience but a whole nation.

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Extracts of Paul Potts' interview with Amanda Holden on the ITV programme "When Britain First Had Talent"

Click here for a complete article form thisisnottingham.co.uk

The winner of last year's Britain's Got Talent, BBC's answer to The X Factor, spent most of his life feeling "insignificant" and used singing to escape into his own world ever since being bullied at school, where he was called "saddo" and "flea-bag".

"My mother recalls me listening to the theme from ET and conducting an imaginary orchestra with sticks," laughs Paul Potts, who was born outside Bristol 37 years ago, one of four children, to a bus driver father and supermarket cashier mum.

By the time he reached 11, he was part of one of the best church choirs in Bristol. But it was when he hit 16 that his love of opera took hold.

Click here for a complete article from thisisderbyshire.co.uk

Six months after Paul Potts shot to fame on TV show Britain's Got Talent, the Carphone Warehouse manager turned opera singer is struggling to come to terms with his celebrity status.

Just recently he was the subject of an ITV1 documentary and admits he found the process more than a little strange.

"I think some people might assume that I'm used to the cameras but I'm still nervous around them," he says. "I'm still shy at heart so it's a bit weird finding a camera in my face when I walk out of the door at six in the morning.

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Click here for a complete article from ogpaper.com

Britain’s Got Talent operatic winner Paul Potts brings his larger than life voice to Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on March 1 at 8 p.m.

Paul Potts has admitted spending 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. As his escape, Potts was able to lose himself with hauntingly beautiful lyrics and melodies that lifted his heart and spirit. This largely undiscovered gift of song, however, was buried for many years because of Paul’s lack of self-confidence. 

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