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
2 comments:
We were at the concert last night in Auckland. First time we'd heard Elizabeth and absolutely loved her voice, right from the first notes. Paul was fantastic, as always, and got a standing ovation at the end of the performance. We so loved the entire evening.
I read a review and agree with the comments about the visuals being distracting. Might have been better with stills and fades,if anything. And about the duet, Brindisi, being "ill-advised". It is a difficult piece but it was performed well enough. Why are people so judgmental? It seemed that everyone in the audience enjoyed it. I can just imagine those critics cringing in their seats, lol! Why on earth were they there if they'd rather listen to "real" singers?
I can't believe the snobs out there (comments attributed to Dame Kiri & the reviewer I read). "Fake singers" ??? Are you kidding? "Not the real deal??" Dame Kiri has a beautiful voice, to be sure, but I'd rather listen to the likes of Sarah Brightman. I love popera! As for Paul, I love his voice! He's not a Pavarotti and would never think so himself but I prefer him to Josep Carreras. Actually, I'm happy to listen to lots of singers and genres.
Elizabeth and Paul get a HUGE thumbs up from us!!!
I can't agree with you more. I think the opera world think they own the musical world, but they don't. The Paul Potts and Elizabeth concert was one of the finest I'd ever been to. I didn't find the visual distracting at all, but then again, I was sitting in the circle.
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