Diversity In Talents...?

There's a number of things that I do enjoy when I'm here in the UK. One of it is this TV Talent Show called "Britain's Got Talent". People from all walks of life get to perform virtually ANY type of performance in front of 3 judges (one of it is Simon Cowell) and the prize is 100,000 pounds and the chance to perform in front of a royalty and The Royal Variety Performance held yearly.

It started last year, and the winner was... Paul Potts. His was an amazing story. Just a plain mobile phone seller. Low on confidence, low on money, juz simply eking out a living on a day to day basis. His decision to audition for the talent show was based on a flip of a coin. He was a bag of nerves during the audition and Simon Cowell was just waiting to press the buzzer to eliminate him out... until this guy started singing... and every mouth gape open wide as he hit every note of Puccini's Nessun Dorma... and in the he went all the way to the finals. Right now he has an album under Simon Cowell's company and it's called "One Chance".

Beside Paul Potts it also discovered a talented 6 year old Connie Talbot who sang "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" and made quite a number in the audience cried...

I really like the concept behind it, everybody from all walks of life, short, fat, rich, poor, young old have a chance to perform and show what talent they have, without any prejudice. Although there are also a number of equally horrendous and awful, vulgar performance...

Anyway yesterday was a superb performance by a lady by the name of Madonna... Madonna Ducia... a Filipino... she left her kids in Philippines... came over to the UK... to work as a club singer... so that she can send some money back... and what a performance it was... she sang Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love you" and moved the audience to tears. Besides a good performance, what caught my attention was a celebration of diversity... they applauded and supported her, eventhough it was clear that she wasn't a Brit... anyway more of the story here...

What else to be said... music crosses all boundaries...

Cheers...