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September 15, 2007

An opera purist speaks out

On Wednesday Aidan Lang sat in his office and listened to Paul Potts singing Nessun Dorma. This is the aria from Turandot which Pavarotti, who died last week, made famous as the Italian soccer anthem. It is also the aria Paul Potts sang on Britain's Got Talent, which made him, sort of, famous.

Lang is the general director of the NBR New Zealand Opera, whose production of Turandot opens on Thursday. It seemed a good week to go to see him. He agreed that it was, down to the unlikely idea of the opera man listening to Paul Potts sing the aria in his office.

He said he would, and he did. He would not, you could guess, usually be listening to a CD made by a bloke who got famous on a naff telly show, but I gave him the Potts album as a present.

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September 10, 2007 

Tickets for two international music acts set to perform in Rotorua are selling fast - and organisers expect sell-out crowds.

America, a 70s soft rock band and Grammy Award winners 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.

TV's Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts is also headed for Rotorua. He's scheduled to perform at the Energy Events Centre on April 11.

The former cellphone salesman became an international star after winning the talent competition.

The video of his audition has become one of the most watched clips on video sharing website YouTube.

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Rubin goes Potty over Paul
September 03, 2007

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RICK RUBIN, the heavily-bearded rock legend who discovered BEASTIE BOYS, has vowed to turn PAUL POTTS into a stateside superstar.

The heavyweight music mogul was moved to tears after stumbling over the former mobile phone salesman's skills on YouTube.

And he's vowed to use all his clout, as the newly installed president of Columbia records, to break the portly talent show champ in America.

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Opera star Potts wows Australian fans
Sep 1 2007

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The winner of a British TV talent quest, overnight opera sensation Paul Potts, has wowed hundreds of fans at his only Australian performance.

Fans lined up for more than two hours on Saturday at a shopping centre in Castle Hill, in Sydney's north-west, to hear the Britain's Got Talent winner and former mobile phone salesman sing three songs from his debut album One Chance.

His final number, Puccini's Nessun Dorma - which won him the talent show - earned him a standing ovation.

Potts' wife Julie-Ann was in the crowd of fans, some of whom had travelled from as far away as Tweed Heads and Taree, in northern NSW.

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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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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.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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Paul Potts is storming to the top of the charts with his debut album, One Chance, which was only released on Monday but is already outselling the rest of the top ten LPs together.



Gennaro Contaldo of record shop chain HMV said: "He is well on course to sell over 100,000 copies this week.

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"Traditionally this type of album would be released around Mother's Day or Christmas aimed at the gift market, but Paul has obviously built up a big enough following from TV without that kind of marketing.

Paul Potts supposedly opened a blog account at http://paulpotts.welshblogs.co.uk/. He posted his first entry on July 11, 2007. Then he added two more entries on 12th and 13th.



I was very excited about this, but I also had a doubt.

Paul Potts Official Websites are released

http://paulpotts.welshblogs.co.uk/ - official blog
http://sonybmg.co.uk/artists/paul_potts/
http://www.paulpottsuk.com/
http://www.myspace.com/officialpaulpottsmusic

I love the fact that he didn't buy some of the expensive domain name from domain squatters.

I hope this will clear the air once and for all. There are many fake official websites out there.

I submitted a comment to his blog. There must be thousands of commends to be screened.

I saw Paul Potts domain name on sale on Ebay.
It's - PaulPotts(dot)me(dot)uk
It's on sale for about $10K

Yikes... so, what can I do with that domain name?
Can I pretend to be Paul Potts?
Can I pretend to be yet another Paul Potts Official website?
Above practices are practically illegal (not to mention it's unethical)

So, the only thing I can do is to squat on it until I sell it to somebody (just like the current owner's doing).

One more thing.
If Mr. Paul Potts decides to sue me for cybersquatting, I really don't have a case against him. Some people name their pets after their domain names and such... it doesn't work.

The latest case I remember is the Actor Kevin Spacey taking a domain name away from a squatter. It was not even a correct spelling.

PaulPottsFanClub.com is launched.