{"id":1365,"date":"2007-06-21T12:22:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/21\/paul-potts-on-britains-got-talent-and-youtube\/"},"modified":"2021-06-29T15:26:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T22:26:16","slug":"paul-potts-on-britains-got-talent-and-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/21\/paul-potts-on-britains-got-talent-and-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Potts on Britain&#8217;s Got Talent and Youtube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was forwarded to me by my cousin. It&#8217;s incredible. I was moved by his singing.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I was sent:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"potts.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA&amp;mode\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imageframe\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/potts.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"potts.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"185\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even if you hate opera, you will LOVE this!!!<\/p>\n<p>Paul Potts, a shy, 36 year old mobile car salesman from Wales entered the British version of &#8220;American Idol&#8221;. He was near bankrupt from a series of health issues [tumor on adrenaline gland, ruptured appendix, and a smashed collar bone from being thrown from his bike]. He never sang professionally and lacks confidence from being bullied as a child. He said, his voice was his only friend at times.<\/p>\n<p>This video was Paul&#8217;s audition.<\/p>\n<p>The finals were held on June 19, and that evening, after 2 million viewers voted by phone, Paul won the contest will receive $200,000, sang on NBC&#8217;s TODAY SHOW on 6\/21\/07, and will sing for the Queen later this month.<\/p>\n<p>His first CD will be available in July.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT A STORY!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paul Potts sings Nessun Dorma\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1k08yxu57NA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>local version:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1365-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/video\/Paul%20Potts%20sings%20Nessun%20Dorma%206-21-07.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/video\/Paul%20Potts%20sings%20Nessun%20Dorma%206-21-07.mp4\">http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/video\/Paul%20Potts%20sings%20Nessun%20Dorma%206-21-07.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was forwarded to me by my cousin. It&#8217;s incredible. I was moved by his singing. Here&#8217;s what I was sent: Even if you hate opera, you will LOVE this!!! Paul Potts, a shy, 36 year old mobile car salesman from Wales entered the British version of &#8220;American Idol&#8221;. He was near bankrupt from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8889,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/8889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}