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This was linked over at BGC. It is almost beyond belief!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn5L5U92_54

Wow! Think of when she is 20. Great pitch control - no accompaniment!

Wow. Very good ear. She's really got it. And what a smile!

That natural phrasing...she's an Old Soul.

This was from the new Cowell show (can't stand the guy) Britain's got Talent same formula as America's got Talent.

She was good but guy who won really deserved it a unassuming guy who worked in a mobile phone shop, Sang Nessun Dorma brilliantly.

Her time will come if she still wants to do it

Here's the guy who won the show, not a opera fan myself but you'd kill for a voice like this.



click here


carphone warehouse looking for a new salesman by the way

The guy's amazing, simply amazing. Brilliant. But still, it's hard for me to believe they've preferred him over a six year old girl - i guess here, it simply wouldn't be possible!

Not to mention the competition from all the dancing bears! You're right, Sheenah, in Russia he'd be stuck selling carphones.

It was a public vote Sheena or that's the impression they give to all the punters who ring in, there has been a bit of a scandal here in Uk regarding phone voting on these type of shows.

He deserved to win in my view, the 6 year old was cute and so was another 10 year old who got to final doing Mary Poppins type numbers.

Yes, i understand, Roy. We had a similar type contest here not so long ago, and it was also a public vote, and the winner was a 12 year old boy playing accordion - nice guy in my view, but nothing of that special. There were a lot of people who made more impression on me personally, especially two boys (brothers, aged 10 and 12), really fantastic acrobats, and i thought they'd win, but - but they're from Moscow and that means "you'll never win a public vote". The adults simply had no chance!
Dane, believe it or not, there were no bears. Rats, doves - yes, but no dancing beers, er, bears.

The guy is a diamond in the rough. Give the guy formal operatic training and he will be a voice to watch. Imagine walking into the back room looking for a particular phone model and hearing him belting one out!

These two examples really put American Idol into perspective....

Sheena, I saw an ad recently for our equivalent show, "America's Got Talent", which said they were going to feature Gregory Popovich, a former clown and juggler from the Moscow Circus who has relocated to Las Vegas with his wife and daughter. They do shows there with everyday ordinary dogs and cats that he's rescued from animal shelters and taught to do circus tricks. My wife and I saw him last year when we were out there visiting her parents, and the guy is simply unbelievable. Have you heard of him?

That same trip, my brother got us tickets in LA to see something called "Slava's Snow Show", which stars another ex-Moscow Circus clown and a big cast of fellow expatriates. It was one of the best bits of theater I've ever seen.

I guess what I'm trying to say is thanks for sending us your clowns. I wish we could send you some of ours, but they've all got government jobs here...

I do know of Vyacheslav Polunin (who makes the snow show, and the snow shows happen every year in Russia as well), but never heard of Popovich. As far as

I wish we could send you some of ours

is concerned - no thanks. We've got enough of ours, so if you don't mind i'd rather they stay at home.

Here's a link for Popovich: www.comedypet.com

There seems to be a lot of info on him being circulated, including at least one 'youtube' clip. He makes me proud to be a human being...

Ah, pets. Cats and all. Yep, that's amazing. The most famous cats' trainer here is Yuri Kuklachev. Back in the day, when i was a kid, he was unique cause they said it was impossible to train a cat. We've got lots of talents here... well, and when i said "no thanks"... actually, i wouldn't mind if you sent Ray Bradbury (or perhaps Stephen King) to us.