Sometimes....just sometimes....something rocks us on our heels, irrespective of genre, and this is one of those rare moments.
I know next to nothing about "pop" music in Russia and China, yet I stumbled across something and someone so remarkable on YouTube, I felt I had to share this discovery.
By way of background to this extraordinary discovery, I often trawl around YouTube listening to past classics from the likes of The King's Singers, Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire, the BeeGees etc etc.
As someone who enjoys listening to choral music and good vocalists, I came across a young man from Russia, who not only has an agreeable voice, but THE most extraordinary falsetto I have ever come across. Not only that, he controls that falsetto with an absolutely flawless technique and a real sense of style. Equally extraordinary, is the fact that I had never heard of him, simply because he represents a "pop" world which never travels outside Russia, unless it travels into China.
"Vitas" is the stage name of this remarkable young man, and he is apparently something of a superstar in his native Russia and also in China.
I shall say no more, but ask those who may be interested to listen to this phenomenon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HQh29nQcvs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZl4CdDE3Is&feature=related
MM