Paul Potts tours Australia

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PAUL Potts opens his mouth and people cry. The mobile phone salesman has only to wrap his tonsils around Puccini and grown men and women go weak at the knees.

Even those who have only seen Potts, perform on YouTube get a bit misty-eyed. "When Paul sang Time to Say Goodbye, I wept," one blogger admits.

"The voice gave me goosebumps," writes another. "I was in tears."

But ask the man who sang his way to fame on a British TV talent quest to explain his emotive power and he draws a blank.

"A lot of people seem to love what I do," the 37-year-old singer says on the eve of an Australian tour.

How, then, does it feel to have that power?

"Like I say, I just love being able to sing."

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