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Name :
Russell Watson
Style :
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Crossover"
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Opera"
Aka : The Voice
Born : 24th November 1966
From : United Kingdom
Resources :
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Releases :
2001 : album -
Encore
2004 : album -
Amore Musica
2003 : album -
Reprise
2000 : album -
The Voice
2000 : single -
Barcelona
2002 : single -
Nothing Sacred
Appearence :
2005 : compilation - Nella Fantasia - Be My Love
2004 : compilation - Va pensiero - Number One Opera Album 2004
2003 : compilation - Va, Pensiero Verdi - Pure Classics
2001 : compilation - Fedora: Amor ti vieta - For The One You Love
2002 : compilation - Barcelona (Friends Until The End) - Victory - The World Champions
2004 : compilation - Santa Lucia - Voices The Ultimate Collection
2004 : compilation - Amore E Musica - Classical Album 2005
2002 : compilation - Va, pensiero - Classics 2003
2005 : compilation - Nella Fantasia - Total Classics
2004 : compilation - Celeste Aida - Number One Opera Album 2004
2005 : compilation - Volare - Be My Love
2005 : compilation - Torna a Surriento - Total Classics
2001 : compilation - Nella fantasia - Classical Hits
2003 : compilation - Swing Low 99 - Land of my Fathers
2005 : compilation - Ave Maria - Canto The Spirit of the Voice
2005 : compilation - You Raise Me Up - Songs of Praise
2002 : compilation - Somewhere - Classical Brit Awards 2002
2005 : compilation - Nella Fantasia - Canto The Spirit of the Voice
2005 : compilation - The Magic of Love with Lionel Richie - Canto The Spirit of the Voice
2003 : compilation - Swing Low - World in Union 2003
2004 : compilation - That's Amore - Voices 3
2002 : compilation - Nabucco: Va, pensiero - Voices
2005 : compilation - I'll Walk With God - Songs of Praise
2004 : compilation - II Gladiatore - Voices The Ultimate Collection
2004 : compilation - Bridge Over Troubled Waters - Unforgettable
2001 : compilation - Funiculi, funicula - Classical Brit Awards
2001 : compilation - Caruso - The Classical Album 2001
2002 : compilation - Bridge Over Troubled Water - Voices
2003 : compilation - Nella fantasia - Number One Classical Album
2005 : compilation - Caruso - Be My Love
2002 : compilation - Bridge over troubled water - Voices
Subcategories :
Concerts (3)
Discography (7)
BIOGRAPHY
| “Good evening Wembley” |
And a capacity crowd scream their lungs out.
And then Russell Watson wakes up. And he’s on stage and... and... and... well, he has only stood in front of a capacity crowd screaming their lungs out at Wembley. How did that happen?
In four years he has gone, in his own words, “from walking on stage at a working men’s club with five people there, spilt beer and cigarette smoke and joking to them ‘Good Evening Wembley’ to actually saying the same thing to 15,000 people crammed into Wembley Arena”.
It has been some journey.
It started with The Voice. A debut album that went double Platinum in several territories, stayed at number one in the UK classical charts for 52 weeks and announced the arrival of a major new talent. A year later, his second album, Encore, knocked The Voice off the top of the charts and sold over 1.7 million copies.
They are both still in the classical Top 20. And now we have Reprise.
“What are you going to call your tenth album?” I ask him. “Requiem,” he says, before pausing and then cracking a smile. “Or maybe R.I.P. ... I haven’t made my mind up yet.” The decision is not pressing.
In the twelve months since Encore went to the top of the charts Watson has played in front of the 43rd President of the United States, the Queen, Pope John Paul II and over one billion people who tuned into the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Manchester this summer.
He has also played at the Sydney Opera House and both of the big Halls. That is, Carnegie and Albert. It seems like he might have made it. “I’d been told to expect polite applause when I walked onto the stage (at Carnegie Hall), but the roar was like a wall of sound which almost knocked me off my feet... as soon as I feel like the audience are up for it then I’ll respond and for the rest of that night I was on fire.”
His success has walked hand-in-hand with a coming of age in terms of musicianship. There is a new depth to his voice, to the voice. “This album is more classical than either of the others”, he says, “but the way we’ve done it is to take a completely different angle to Pavarotti or Plácido Domingo.”
“On tracks like Granada and the Neapolitan love songs we’ve brought in Nick Dodd to make everything more epic. He is a phenomenal orchestrator and turns any ‘song’ into a ‘big song’. The pop is still on there and a bit more poppy, Cleopatra is back with me doing a duet and, as I have said before, it’s a progression.”
Reprise is the next step. “The Voice was special because it was my first recording” he says. “Encore was a better recording but Reprise is the best thing I have done so far... this album has something for everybody.”
He’s not wrong, you know. |
URL
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Fans of Russell Watson
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A photo gallery of the UK classical singer Russell Watson
http://www.fansofrussellwatson.co.uk
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URL
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Russell Watson
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The Official Site for English Tenor - Russell Watson (The Voice)
http://www.russell-watson.com
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Russell Watson UK
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A dedicated fansite to Russell Watson - 'the voice', where the fans share stories, photos, news and memories.
http://www.russellwatsonuk.com
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