Rotorua concert on Friday with emerging international star Paul Potts and Elizabeth Marvelly might be a sell out. But it could be just another day in the office for the promising Rotorua singer.She is planning a Mother's Day concert in Rotorua on May 11 as her tribute to local supporters.
"For Mother's Day, I'm going to be doing a few of the songs from the album so those mums who had it bought for them for Christmas won't be disappointed and I'm also going to do a few old favourites," Marvelly said.
"I have been working on a whole lot of new material, which includes old songs like Your Song by Elton John, an incredibly beautiful song but I've never heard a woman sing it."
Unchained Melody, by The Righteous Brothers, is another prospect, and a "few select old pieces which are still applicable in modern music and my genre as well". One guest is the young baritone Christian Thurston, product of the prominent Rotorua family.
Marvelly says she plans to include "beautiful" well-known songs."Mother's Day is a time for reminiscing and being grateful."Over the past year, she has fashioned a solid foundation of stepping stones to international stardom.
A concert with Potts, a well sold CD, a planned CD compilation with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and two songs on Dancing With The Stars have been crunched into a busy 12 months.
Late last week, Marvelly flew out of Rotorua and across the Tasman to try to crack the usually fertile Australian music market.
Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/bayofplenty/4475400a6014.html
