The tenor then shot up the charts. But the fame, fueled by a gigantic media hype, quickly faded again. Critics saw in Potts never an above average singer.
…to the world-famous opera star
It hasn’t always been easy for the 51-year-old: his taste in music, which is not in line with the mainstream, helped the little one Paul beatings and bullying from his classmates. Already in 1999 had but he won £8,000 at a talent show and has since been involved in various small-scale opera productions. With the money he earned, he went to Italy to train his voice there – in the master class of Katia Ricciarelli.
2016 saw another side of Potts: his photography. He opened an exhibition in Vienna’s Salon M. “My pictures are like my music – very emotional,” said the Briton at the time. He has since sold over five million CDs and given more than 600 concerts in front of millions of people. And it is precisely this everyday life that the singer has been capturing in pictures since 2008. “I always plug in a camera or two,” said Potts. However, his motifs are far-reaching – from landscape pictures and buildings to special people and menu cards. For example, the exhibition entitled “World Stars Around the Globe” includes the Sydney Opera House, the Grand Canal in Venice, the coasts of South Korea and Northern Britain and the Chain Bridge in Budapest.