Paul Potts - One Chance [UK Version]
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Track List: One Chance [UK Version]
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- Nessun Dorma
- Time To Say Goodbye (Con Te Partiro)
- Amapola
- Everybody Hurts (Ognuno Soffre)
- Caruso
- Nella Fantasia
- You Raise Me Up (Por Ti Sere)
- My Way (A Mi Manera)
- Cavatina
- Music Of the Night
- O Holy Night
- Silent Night
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Album Details: One Chance [UK Version]
- Release Date:
- 07/12/2007
- Label:
- Sony
- UPC:
- 886971551723
User Reviews: One Chance [UK Version]
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Paul Potts " ONE CHANCE"
, December 24, 2007Reviewer: Italian Stallion - See all Italian Stallion's reviews
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Pro Reviews: One Chance [UK Version]
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews In 1990, the joint efforts of the World Cup and the Three Tenors provided opera singing with its biggest ever foray into the pop charts. Seventeen years later, Paul Potts, an unassuming tenor, originally from Bristol, took opera back to the very top of the charts with the album One Chance and he too had a helping hand from the enormously popular television talent show, Britain's Got Talent. There is no denying that Paul Potts has indeed got talent, but is he a better singer than any of the Three Tenors, certainly not, but a TV talent show captures the public almost as much as the World Cup and Potts rides this wave extremely well. He began his trip into TV stardom singing that staple of operatic performance "Nessun Dorma" and this aria opens the album too. The problem is that by 2007 the song was so famous that Potts openly invites comparisons with a multitude of operatic tenors who have sung it before. Not that this is any bad thing, it's a difficult song to sing well and Potts does sing nicely in tune, every note well rehearsed, but there is a lack of real feeling and emotion that betrays his rapid rise. In fact, One Chance is not really an opera album at all and the millions of people who bought it thinking they were buying into a slice of high culture got an album filled with tracks like "Time to Say Goodbye con Te Partito" (a hit single from Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli), "Everybody Hurts (Ognuno Soffre)," originally by R.E.M. and versions of "My Way," "Cavatina (Theme from the Deerhunter)" and Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Music of the Night" from +Phantom of the Opera. The track "Caruso" had been recorded by almost everyone in this genre from Russell Watson to Il Divo and in a similar way that Vittorio Grigolo took a modern pop song, Keane's "Bedshaped" and made it sound like an operatic aria, so Potts translates Westlife's "You Raise Me Up" into Italian and produces a sound far removed from the Westlife hit. One Chance was the sort of album that had the stamp of Simon Cowell all over it, very similar to his Il Divo projects. Cowell had an ear for a good tune, knew what would sell and how to package the moment to maximum effect. An album that came along every so often and persuaded people that they liked opera, when previously they might have thought they did not. If it went on to introduce anybody to other singers in the genre then Paul Potts would, no doubt be one of the first to cheer, but unfortunately, as with the Three Tenors, once out of the spotlight, so was the music. [A tentrack U.K. version of One Chance was also released.] - Sharon Mawer, All Music Guide |
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Paul Potts was exactly what the producers of Britain's Got Talent were looking for when they finally launched the program in the U.K. after much delay: an ordinary bloke, working in an ordinary job, but with an extraordinary talent. Simon Cowell's la...Full Paul Potts Biography
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-- ©2008 All Media Guide, LLC
Pros: Outstanding
Cons: None
This man has a talent not fully explored. His music is touching and he has a genuine heart for Opera and Classicle music. Great voice, he will be better as he gets more experience.