Paul Potts

Paul Robert Potts was born 13 October 1970, Bristol, England. A British tenor, in 2007 he became the winner of a series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent, singing an operatic aria, "Nessun Dorma" from Turandot. Since his TV performance, he has signed a record deal and become a well known celebrity. He worked several years as a shelf stacker in Tesco's and tried unsuccessfully to make it as a full time singer.

He spent most of his savings on receiving singing lessons, including taking part in a Luciano Pavarotti master class. The amount spent was a rather large amount, £20,000 and although he was given encouragement he was never able to get a paid job out of it. In 2003 he had to receive hospital treatment for a benign tumor. Following the operation, he broke his collar bone in a bike accident.
With little to lose and no high expectation, Paul was engaged by friends to give the ITV series a go and made it through various stages to the final. His first performance was in Wales at the Millenium Centre on 17th March, the end result of this performance was a standing ovation of a 2,000- strong audience. In a recent Canadian interview Paul said: "I have done more things in the last four months than I would ever have expected to do in my whole lifetime," Potts told Reuters in an interview. "It's mind-boggling." His schedule includes many performances and TV interviews - He has recorded a performance for Opera Winfrey.

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