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He's quite the phenomenon in Great Britain .

This is really unbelievable.

Take a minute and watch this... makes your heart feel good! Watch the faces of the judges as this guy walks out on the stage. You can almost see what they are thinking as they pre-judge this guy based on his looks and the fact that he is a cell phone salesman.

So much for First impressions!

(Click on the link below forvideo!)


http://www.maniacworld.com/Phone-Salesman-Amazes-Crowd.html

He said he did not quit his job as a cell phone salesman. He is afraid he will not be successful at singing. Simon signed him for a $$$$$$ record deal. He has a CD out.
 
It brought tears to my eyes. That was fabulous. Thank you Twila for sharing!
 
TexasFlowerGuy said:
that opera is in Italian......I'll bet that was a really good tune...if I could only understand the words. Does anybody know what opera that is ....I guess I could look it up.
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He could be singing pig latin, you can hear, you can feel the passion in his song. It still brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. Freaking fabulous - the little engine that could!

tracy
 
watched this guy on utube last summer when he won the Britians Got Talent contest. He is quite the fairytale story. What a voice!
 
Opera in Italian

TexasFlowerGuy said:
that opera is in Italian......I'll bet that was a really good tune...if I could only understand the words. Does anybody know what opera that is ....I guess I could look it up.

All the best.
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I can't imagine being anymore moved if I had been able to understand each word he sang. The emotioin and beauty of the music is all I needed.

But, a point I would like to make is: Several years ago I accompanied a choir on a tour of Europe. They were performing in all kinds of venues and since I was not only a pianist, but, a pipe organist, it worked out for me to be their accompanist.

What I discovered in dealing with all the foreign language when I was trying to set up their pipe organs in cathederals with the church organist was that music is a universal language. Not once did I "have" to know their language for us to communicate. I also can relate this experience to working with flowers over there. We don't have to speak English to understand flowers. Thus, my conclusion is....Music and Flowers are the International Language.

Does this make any sense? I think I stated my thoughts poorly, but, I am overcome with the beauty of music and flowers in any language.....they just seem to go hand in hand.

Carol Bice
 
Music groups

This really has nothing to do with the thread, but, my mind wanders and I was just remembering a group of doctors that I used to accompany for shows.

It was in a small Missouri town and the four singing doctors were all shy of hair on their head. They named their group....."Alopecia " because "Alabama" was already taken.

Before I was their pianist, they had another member named Dick in the group that was from Hickory County. At that point, their name was "Hickory Dick and the Docs".

I am amused easily, I guess.

Carol Bice
 
Carol Bice said:
I can't imagine being anymore moved if I had been able to understand each word he sang. The emotioin and beauty of the music is all I needed. . . . . . .

Thus, my conclusion is....Music and Flowers are the International Language.

Does this make any sense? I think I stated my thoughts poorly, but, I am overcome with the beauty of music and flowers in any language.....they just seem to go hand in hand.
Carol Bice
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You stated your thoughts BEAUTIFULLY.

Maybe we could get Paul Potts to be a spokesman for Real Florists.

Music and Flowers are the International Language
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I love that quote.
 
TexasFlowerGuy said:
that opera is in Italian......I'll bet that was a really good tune...if I could only understand the words. Does anybody know what opera that is ....I guess I could look it up.

All the best.
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Mike, Even though it is in Italian, could you not feel the emotion in the song....I listen to opera in other languages all the time and when done right you just get it....it is an amazingly emotional type of music. When I need a creative jolt I blast the opera and classical music in my shop to stir about the feelings in me that create the movement and design that I need to do special arrangements or window or shop displays...I find that I get a whole lot move movement into my designs when emotionally motivated...
 
Carol, Love that name Hickory Dick and the Docs, that would amuse me just fine...

I feel the same way as you ablout music and flowers, the emotions they both hold are one in the same....

That man had the most beautiful voice. I think it may even be better than Andrea Botccelli's sp?....Angelic and spine tingling...The look on the judge's faces was priceless...They are a bit jaded because every person that comes to them to audition always thinks in their mind that they are great and wonderful and most times they are very very awful. They were totally expecting this shy, introverted man to sound really bad and hearing that he was to sing opera probably made them want to run and hide. There is nothing worse than listening to someone batch a piece of opera...Then the sound came out of his mouth and the lady judge's mouth nearly dropped open that was the most wonderful thing...

The gentleman also went into a different place as soon as he started singing...he went from the shy little man to a very comfortable, confident singer in his skin, right back to a shy man after his very last note...Amazing the power of doing something you love and know you do very well..
 
lori042499 said:
Mike, Even though it is in Italian, could you not feel the emotion in the song....I listen to opera in other languages all the time and when done right you just get it....it is an amazingly emotional type of music. When I need a creative jolt I blast the opera and classical music in my shop to stir about the feelings in me that create the movement and design that I need to do special arrangements or window or shop displays...I find that I get a whole lot move movement into my designs when emotionally motivated...
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I so totally agree with your last two posts. I have studied the phycological effect of sounds and different types of music on workers and customers. If all our florists frineds would conduct an experiment, they might come to the same conclusions I have.


Carol Bice
 
Nessun Dorma is from Puccini's opera, Turandot. It is translated to mean Nobody Sleeps. It is probably best known as a song Luciano Pavarotti made famous...he in fact sang it (I mean lip-synched) at the Turin Olympics. If you get a chance, get the Paul Potts CD, One Chance. It is on there and he does an awesome job. His rendition of O Holy Night is wonderful too. Gudrun
 
How beautiful, He totally took my breath away and made me cry. Seriously, thanks for sharing!
 
Gudrun said:
Nessun Dorma is from Puccini's opera, Turandot. It is translated to mean Nobody Sleeps. It is probably best known as a song Luciano Pavarotti made famous...he in fact sang it (I mean lip-synched) at the Turin Olympics. If you get a chance, get the Paul Potts CD, One Chance. It is on there and he does an awesome job. His rendition of O Holy Night is wonderful too. Gudrun
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Gudrun,
Thank you for the education. I find that we Yanks often need help in understanding a lot of things. I am looking forward to the Paul Potts CD.

All the best....
 
Twila,

Thanks for sharing...I saw the video quite some time ago, but it was delightful to watch again.

I adore opera! My all time favorite movie, The Shawshank Redemption, features the aria "The Marriage Of Figaro" by Mozart, performed by Maria Callas. Talk about a moving moment in a movie...the prisoners were all out in the yard when Andy (Tim Robbins) played the opera full blast!...not a soul moved...it was a moment in time. I don't think I could express the feeling of the aria better than "Red" (Morgan Freeman) with these words:

Red: "I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing
about. Truth is, I don't wanna know. Some things are best left unsaid. I
like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be
expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you,
those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to
dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and
made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last
man at Shawshank felt free."

Here's a link to The Marriage Of Figaro:
Listen to this song:
http://www.thesahara.net/shawshank_redemption.htm


I play the soundtrack from The Shawshank Redemption at least once a week...full blast on the opera, baby!


If you've never watched The Shawshank Redemption, you've missed out on one of the finest films ever made!
 
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