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Pure Pleasure Paul Potts Paul Potts is a British pop opera tenor who won the Britains Got Talent in 2007, singing an operatic aria, Nessun dorma from Puccinis Turandot. Potts was a manager at a mobile phone store who also performed in amateur opera from 1999 to 2003. Potts first sang opera in 1999 in a karaoke competition, dressed as Luciano Pavarotti. That same year, he appeared in a music alquiz show. Although he did not take first place, he was selected to perform in front of Pavarotti.Potts broke his collarbone and suffered whiplash in a bicycle accident in 2003, which prevented him from pursuing opera as a career. The mishap and financial difficulties that followed led him to enter Britains Got Talent despite not having sung in years. (126) Susan Boyle Susan Margaret Boyle is a Scottish singer w ho came to international public attention in 2009 after she appeared as a contestant on Britains Got Talent. Boyle became known when she sang I Dreamed a Dream in the competition. In the final of the third series of the show, Boyle finished in second place. When she appeared on the Britain Got Talent stage for the first time, the audience and judges appeared apprehensive and judgmental of her frumpy appearances. Upon finishing her song, she received a standing ovation from the live audience and unanimous praise from the judges. Simon Cowell is reported to be setting up a contract with Boyle with Sony Music. (113) Vincent Van Gogh Vincent van Gogh is today regarded as one of historys greatest, most influential artists, and an important contributor to the foundations of modern art. Little appreciated during his lifetime, his reputation vastly increased in the years after his death. A central figure in his life was his younger brother Theo, an art dealer who continually and selflessly provided financial and emotional support to the troubled artist. Their lifelong friendship, and most of what is know