He looked like an unlikely star when he took to the stage in
front of Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan. But
as Paul Potts began Nessun Dorma for the judges of the
Britain's Got Talent show the power of his astonishing
performance left few in doubt that this was no ordinary
singer. He received a standing ovation from the 2000
people in the audience and left Amanda Holden with tears of
joy rolling down her face. Even Simon Coswell and Piers
Morgan were pleasantly surprised.

He went on to win the talent show and received the chance
to perform in front of the Queen at the Royal Variety
Performance 2007. Paul also received a record deal from
Simon Coswell. His first C.D. is called "One Chance"

Paul was born in 1971 in Bristol from Port Talbot in south
Whales. He had appeared in four amateur opera productions
and in a concert for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and
had plans for a summer tour with the Orchestra.

Potts is said to have first sung Opera in 1999 in a karaoke
competition,[when he was 28 years old] dressed as Pavarotti,
although he had said during the show that his voice had
always been a source of solace in the past when bullied, so
he would have sung from a younger age. That same year he
appeared in the Michael Barrymore talent show "My Kind of
Music". Although he did not win the competition, he won
£8,000, which helped to pay for singing lessons in Italy.

For the Bath UK based amateur company Bath Opera, he has
performed on four occasions in the roles of Don Basilio
(Marriage of Figaro), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and the
title role in Verdi's Don Carlos, and Turandot as Prince of
Persia and Herald. He also sang for the Royal Philharmonic
in front of an

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I finished Season 5 a few weeks ago after a memorable year of getting all the seasons on Netflix and watching them in sequence. I'm now depressed that there is nothing even remotely approaching the excellence of the show out there for me to watch next. Although, I did just get a few episodes of Homicide: Life On the Street on Netflix, and it's not a bad substitute. It features the excellent Clark Johnson (the Sun editor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Haynes,Gus Haynes] from Season 5 of The Wire). I guess the producers and writers are the same group of people, and the style is similar. Not as good, obviously, but pretty decent.

audience of 15,000 and toured Northern Italy
as a soloist.

However, after spending £20,000 on his career hopes,
including a masterclass in which he sang for Luciano
Pavarotti, doctors discovered a benign tumor during
treatment for appendicitis in 2003. Then, shortly after his
recovery, he broke his collar bone in a bike accident

Instead of thinking about singing, he was lying on the sofa
in agony. Now when he goes on stage his wife of 4 years
Julie doesn't want people to say "break a leg" because
Paul probably would. For a time he worked as a shelf-stacker
in Tesco and ended up as the manager at Bridgend's
Carphone Warehouse,

After winning Britains Got Talent, Paul has been busy
circling the globe on promotion tours. It is amazing how
fast his life has changed since the show. He is one of
those rare individuals that has found out what can only be
described as an "Over Night Success" His videos on the
Internet have already received over 10 million views. He is
a person who has been blessed with a great talent and
deserves as much recogition as he is receiving. I do believe
that there is a little Paul Potts in every one of us.