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...audience and judges before the two wow-inducing performances. (Eye rolls and snickering, of course, can be taped at any time and edited in later, but never mind.) But exactly how untutored and undiscovered were Potts, who went on to win 2007's competition and will release the CD Passione on May 5, and Boyle, who since her performance surfaced last week has become a household name on at least two continents...
...Boyle's story is similar but with fewer light notes. Her hardscrabble town was Blackburn in Scotland. She also auditioned for a Barrymore TV show, but didn't make the cut. Yet she took singing lessons and recorded Cry Me a River for a charity CD in 1999, the same year she made a demo tape. An observant Catholic, she often sang at church and on karaoke nights. So her talent was no surprise to her neighbors. "Everyone here knew she could sing," Jackie Russell, manager of the local pub, told the AP. "We were always saying, 'You should...
...original version of this article stated that Paul Potts's CD was already released. It will actually be released...
...called “palpably erroneous,” as the appeals judges did. Expressing disappointment in the judges’ ruling, D. Yvette Wohn, a Harvard Extension School student assisting Nesson with public relations, said the recording industry is stuck in an age where music came on a CD and could be expressly owned and sold. “Broadcasting this case over the Internet is very relevant because it applies the Internet in a way that hasn’t been done before,” Wohn said. “By being denied the webcast, Joel...
...CD opens with Ratatat’s “Wildcat," a sleek and sexy track whose almost predatory feel is only reinforced by the recurring cougar-scream that haunts the piece. Following this prelude is “Seventeen Years,” a sort of Ratatat anthem if you will: with its rhythmic march and searing synth overlay, it conjures images of an army’s worth of cigarette-jean clad hipsters readying for battle...