One Chance

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艺人: Paul Potts
语种: 英语
厂牌: Sony BMG
发行时间: 2007年07月16日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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今年的话题人物，保罗帕兹(Paul Potts)首张古典跨界专辑。

英国歌唱选秀史最传奇的一页，已经写下。当梦想与命运交会的瞬间，平凡与非凡只有一曲之遥。

身材微胖、其貌不扬的36岁手机销售员，一跃成为歌剧英雄，不仅感动了全英，还感动了全世界。

由於外表不出眾，在还没听见他的歌声以前，几乎没有人对这个其貌不扬的中年男子抱有任何信心，当他缓缓说出“我要唱歌剧”时，在评审的脸上似乎都出现了準备看好戏的神情。在全场的半信半疑中，他以一首普契尼歌剧《图兰朵》旷世名曲《公主彻夜未眠》展现技惊全场的歌剧实力，不但爆满观眾尖叫声掌声不断，就连评审也感动到飆泪。

尤其是坚毅的眼神加上与外表完全不搭界的美妙歌喉，感动了无数电视机前的观眾，透过网路的迅速传播，一夕之间走红全球。这一幕决赛实况画面成为“YouTube”网站史上点阅率最高的影片，最后保罗凭著天籟嗓音勇夺英国版星光大道《Britain's Got Talent》选秀比赛总冠军与一张百万唱片合约，成为全球传媒争相报导英国国民英雄！

以平凡小人物创造了一段非凡传奇故事，这一晚从平凡到非凡虽然只有一曲之遥，但保罗却走了36年，只为坚持他的梦想。正如他的专辑名称，上天给Paul Potts一个成名的契机，但希望这不是他唯一的专辑，而只是一个开始。

保罗·珀特斯，是6月18日英国选秀节目“星光大道”总决赛上新出炉的霸主，因选秀中完美地演唱了歌剧《图兰朵》中的著名咏叹调《今夜无人入睡》而震惊世界。他参加比赛时高歌的片段在国际颇有影响的视频网站YouTube上，全球点击率高达接近神话般的1亿次。仅一个多月后，保罗趁势推出了自己的首张

个人专辑《onechance》（《一个机会》），该专辑除了收录有保罗的成名曲《今夜无人入睡》，还翻唱了莎拉·布莱蔓曾唱过的《告别时刻》、英国摇滚乐队R.E.M的名曲《每人都受伤》，此外还有电影《猎鹿人》的主题曲等，这张拼盘式碟片首周在英国热卖13万张，把不少英伦乐坛的当红天王天后拉下马来，他洋洋得意地登上英国大榜排行宝座。

如果要考究保罗现在在国际乐坛的影响力和名气，不妨把他与在国内颇有人气的俄罗斯高音王子维塔斯做个对比，在英文GOOGLE里输入PaulPotts，关于他的相关网页有176万个，而输入维塔斯则是67万个。保罗一唱成名后，被专业人士认定为英国乐坛的骄傲和奇迹，而他以奇特的走红方式被人封了“歌剧魔人”的外号，甚至英国女王伊丽莎白二世还专门召见他，并亲耳聆听了保罗的歌声，被他震撼和感动，当众鼓掌不止。

解码·声音他比帕瓦罗蒂更饱含深情

这个身材矮胖、长着一口烂牙的手机小贩是怎样征服国际乐坛的呢？让我们把镜头回放到1个半月以前，地点是保罗·珀特斯一战成名的“星光大道”比赛场上。当时，习惯于向人们兜售廉价手机的保罗站在舞台上面对那么多观众非常地不安，不停地摆弄自己的手来缓解紧张的心情。比赛开始时，主持人问他：“你要唱什么？”保罗傻傻地回答：“只是唱歌剧而已……”结果评审之一Simon很不以为然地说：“哦，那你开始吧！”保罗唱的是普契尼的著名歌剧《图兰朵》里面的咏叹调《今夜无人入睡》，当第一个音符从他嘴中飙出来时，现场人都被震惊到说不出话来，Simon旁边的美女评判眼眶噙满泪水，所有人都被他的歌声弄得神魂颠倒，尖酸刻薄的Si-mon也敬佩地望着他。一曲唱罢，观众们纷纷起立热烈鼓掌，几个岁数很大的观众偷偷用手擦去感动的眼泪。

保罗征服观众的法宝是他那华美而优雅的声音，这声音与他不完美的外形形成了鲜明对比。当他在台上深情演唱时，歌声仿佛清澈得没有尘埃的流水，从空中而来，淌过心田，穿越过去的一切记忆，让人像初生的婴儿一样接受通透的洗礼。有国内歌迷评价说：“相比于歌剧之王帕瓦罗蒂，保罗·珀特斯的《今夜无人入睡》更能带来一种流泪的感动，一种强烈的悲痛与振奋。”还有人说：“保罗·珀特斯的歌，适合一个人坐在黑暗里静静地听，它能够让人找回那个被自己遗弃的自己，找回心底那些无处安放的纯真。即使我们不会欣赏歌剧，也听不懂意大利语，也仍然能够体会到那种无与伦比的震撼。来自心灵，不需要任何粉饰。”

In 1990, the joint efforts of the World Cup and the Three Tenors provided opera singing with its biggest ever foray into the pop charts. Unassuming tenor Paul Potts, originally from Bristol, took opera back to the very top of the charts with the album One Chance 17 years later, and he too had a helping hand from the enormously popular television talent show Britain's Got Talent. There is no denying that Paul Potts has indeed got talent, but is he a better singer than any of the Three Tenors? Certainly not. Still, a TV talent show captures the public almost as much as the World Cup, and Potts rides this wave extremely well. He began his trip into TV stardom singing that staple of operatic performance Nessun Dorma, and this aria opens the album too. The problem is that by 2007 the song was so famous that Potts openly invites comparisons with a multitude of operatic tenors who have sung it before. Not that this is any bad thing; it's a difficult song to sing well and Potts does sing nicely in tune, every note well rehearsed, but there is a lack of real feeling and emotion that betrays his rapid rise. In fact, One Chance is not really an opera album at all, and the millions of people who bought it thinking they were buying into a slice of high culture got an album filled with tracks like "Time to Say Goodbye" (Con Te Partirò), a hit single from Sarah Brightman and Andrea Boceli; "Everybody Hurts" (Ognuno Soffre), originally by R.E.M.; and versions of "My Way," "Cavatina" (the theme from The Deer Hunter), and Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Music of the Night" from Phantom of the Opera. The track "Caruso" had been recorded by almost everyone in this genre from Russell Watson to Il Divo, and in a similar way that Vittorio Grigolo took a modern pop song, Keane's "Bedshaped," and made it sound like an operatic aria, so Potts translates Westlife's "You Raise Me Up" into Italian and produces a sound far removed from the Westlife hit. One Chance was the sort of album that had the stamp of Simon Cowell all over it, very similar to his Il Divo projects. Cowell had an ear for a good tune, and knew what would sell and how to package the moment to maximum effect. This is the type of album that comes along every so often and persuades people that they like opera, when previously they might have thought they did not. If it went on to introduce anybody to other singers in the genre aside from Paul Potts, no doubt he would be one of the first to cheer, but unfortunately, as with the Three Tenors, once out of the spotlight, so was the music. [This edition of One Chance includes the bonus tracks "O Holy Night" and "Silent Night."]

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