When a Gift Speaks for Itself

This has been blowing people away around the world. I was unexpectedly undone by it myself.



Turn up your volume. I read my Australian friend Kel's post on this at the X-facta. She has some interesting thoughts and info, and she says:
"I recall Sunrise showing the clip the morning after it aired in the UK. I had just turned it on to catch the weather report. The next thing I knew I was sitting there with a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes."

I had tears in my eyes when I saw it on tv here in NZ too. I'm still working out what happened. There is something about the way Paul Potts sings, it's like he has nothing to lose and he just lets his talent out. He was interviewed for tv here recently and he really is an ordinary guy. He said none of his workmates knew about his singing so they got a surprise when they turned on their tv's and saw this. He was so unsure about whether to enter the show that he tossed a coin to decide if he should send in his application. When asked if the fame and larger income from CD sales had changed him at all he said it hadn't really. He bought a new watch, got some work done on his teeth, and thought maybe he would take his wife out to dinner at a local restaurant sometimes. And it came across to me that it's the singing he loves, and he wanted to sing for people. A real gift speaks, or sings, for itself. If you use it. Paul Potts won the show. But this clip is the one where the mobile phone salesman first uncovered what he can do and his talent was no longer hidden. No hype, no flashy costume, just this awesome voice from a man who really could be the guy next door. I heart this.