Additionally, he sang with a small ensemble from the Royal Philharmonic in front of an audience of 15,000 and toured northern Italy as a soloist as part of his music classes there. He also performed the role of the Chevalier des Grieux in Puccini's Manon Lescaut for the Southgate Opera Company in London, an amateur company, in May 2003. He then performed leading roles on four occasions: Don Basilio in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in 2000 Don Carlos in Verdi's Don Carlos in 2001 Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni in 2003 and Radames in Verdi's Aida in 2003. Potts first sang opera in the minor roles of the Prince of Persia and the Herald in Puccini's Turandot for Bath Opera, an amateur company, in 1999. ДЄfter winning Britain's Got Talent, Potts took a six-month sabbatical from his job and resigned on 5 March 2008. In 1996, Potts was elected in a council by-election to represent the Eastville ward of Bristol City Council as a Liberal Democrat councillor he was the youngest member of Bristol City Council and served until 2003. (Bachelor of Arts) Honours degree in Humanities from University College Plymouth St Mark & St John.

At the time of his Britain's Got Talent appearance, he was working in The Carphone Warehouse. ДЄfter he left school in 1987, Potts had various jobs including working at Waitrose and Tesco he also may have worked part-time at Debenhams. He has also said that his voice had always been a source of solace in the past when he was bullied. Potts said in interviews that he had been bullied in school, and that experience may have made him lack self-confidence. He also sang with the choir at Chester Park Junior School and with the choirs at several Bristol churches, including Christ Church. Potts attended St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School, where he developed his love of singing. Paul Potts attended The Boys Brigade as a boy at Argyle Morley Church for the third battalion Bristol Potts was born on 13 October 1970 in Kingswood, Bristol, and raised in nearby Fishponds by his father Roland, a bus driver, and mother, Yvonne ( nГ©e Higgins), a supermarket cashier. 2.4 America's Got Talent: The Champions.Potts isn't going to win the admiration of opera lovers, nor even make an impact on the operatic stage like Andrea Bocelli, but he knows his bailiwick and knows it well. The result is a reasonably satisfying sound, and one that keeps replicating what drew listeners to Potts in the first place. The Christmas carols that close out the collection are cases in point.

'Nessun Dorma,' with its conversational beginning and subsequent explosion of passion, fits this vocal profile to a T, and Potts has subsequently been very canny about picking other pieces that do the same. In the mid-range it's thin and not particularly pleasant, but it blooms unexpectedly into the top (although not the very top), where it has caught people's attention.

Some aspects may remain elusive, it's true: why should 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' need to have been translated into Italian for an English-speaking singer? Yet listen to the 'Nessun Dorma' again, and it becomes clear that Potts' voice has an unusual distribution across register. His recording of 'Nessun Dorma,' included here, has attracted more than 120,000,000 views on YouTube. However, that should have worn off by now if that were all he had, and the collection also gives observers of the vocal scene a chance to investigate the reasons for the Potts phenomenon. Potts, a shelf-stocker at a Tesco supermarket when he catapulted to fame by winning the Britain's Got Talent television competition, has an undeniable Everyman appeal. Check out his Taiwanese fan site sometime.

There should be a strong market for this greatest-hits release by British crossover tenor Paul Potts, whose phenomenal popularity is growing internationally among listeners who may not have had the chance to pick up his still consistently selling solo releases.

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