Sunday, April 19, 2009

Judging a book

Parish Choir Singer Becomes Overnight Sensation



6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Willy,
That's the third time that happened. The first time was with Paul Potts and the second was with Andrew Johnston, a 13-year-old boy soprano.

- TE

bluepanjeet said...

Hello willy. Thank you for dropping by my site. we are on the same niche in the blogosphere. Hope to hear from more of you soon.

Godbless

WillyJ said...

TE,
The striking thing is that she has been a parish choir singer for decades. I guess she has one Big Fan long before, and that's all she needs. One serving the Lord is always filled with great joy, did you see it filling her aura? But I'm glad she's having a good time.

bluepanjeet,
More power, keep it up.

Anonymous said...

Willy,

re choirs...I was rechanneling my satellite receiver on Astra and found a free to air music channel (O Music) dedicated to classical crossovers. I was amazed to find quite a few more "choir people" actually making it. There's Aled Jones who was a choir boy (boy soprano) in the early eighties. He's got a bunch of CDs out and he's good. And there's actually a 3-boy group called The Choir Boys with a haunting version of "Tears in Heaven". Then there's The Priests, a group composed of 3 Irish Catholic priests who sang in the choir since they were kids, went to the seminary together, kept singing and is now a hit in the UK. And there's Katherine Jenkins, UK's top selling mezzo-soprano who was a chorister in Wales and twice won the BBC 2 Wales Choirgirl of the year award.

Hey, it's not a bad career path, huh?

- TE

WillyJ said...

Not bad, you bet. I'm a CFC choir member myself, not for the voice though, but just to provide backup base guitar. Comes in handy during CLP's too. Our CFC choir serves every 7:15am Sunday mass. I've always admired people with good singing voices, but as my own voice is so-so, I've never in my wildest dreams entertained a career path in singing. Good looks is not enough :-)

Anonymous said...

Hi Willy,
sounds like my good friend Sammy. He does base as well. We're running a CLP now bro. Tomorrow is talk 4. Some of the participants are Indians from Goa. Bridging that cultural divide is difficult but you know what? The music does it effortlessly. Especially with a good dose of the Spirit.

- TE