Simon Cowell Shocked by Greg Pritchard
24 year old Welsh hotel waiter, Greg Pritchard shocked everyone last Saturday night, when he auditioned on Britain’s Got Talent with a glass shattering performance of Nessun Dorma.
Greg Pritchard called himself a countertenor (that’s the male equivalent to a mezzo-soprano), when asked how to describe his voice by Britain’s Got Talent judges. He left Simon Cowell lost for words. When Simon finally recovered from the shock he responded by saying, “That shouldn’t have just happened… Its like a dog meowing… It just shouldn’t do that.”
It wasn’t just Simon Cowell that was amazed by his performance as Piers Morgan described it as being, “One of the most extraordinary things I have ever heard, of all things I expected to come out of your mouth, that was the last thing on my list.”
May 13th, 2009 at 3:51 PM
He definately shocked me, but not in a good way. I agree with what simon said, “That shouldnt have happened” – it just didnt sound right.
May 30th, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Greg was amazing. He really should’ve got through to the final!
June 20th, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Greg’s voice certainly was right! His voice would have been treasured in the Baroque period where today they are really very few natural soprano/ists but equally prized for their gift. This was perhaps the wrong type of show for him as Simon really is just a populist guru (love him but he should have done his homework on Greg after initial viewing and seen what he had before him in such a priceless talent)!
Greg was wrong in some ways to class himself a contra-tenor because his range is higher but he was correct to say he was a Sopranist. His talent is raw at this time and needs training for technique, power & breathing etc but check out Vitas on youtube, plus others, and you will see and here more soprano’s and sopranists. He could have a real succesful future in life with this rare & beautiful voice.