Check out this one . He's a 12 year old Mongolian boy. I don't think this version has subtitles, but there are version out there with subtitles so that you can read the discussion leading up to the song, as well as the words to the song itself. But, in my opinion, the song and singing is so beautiful that there's no need to read the words.
My apologies. I didn't mean to imply that I didn't like the Cypriot boy's singing as well. I was just providing a complimentary video of another extraordinary talent.
That being said, however, while I do appreciate the Cypriot boy's voice and talent, I've never been the biggest fan of opera. I've tried, but have simply failed to cultivate an appreciation of it... much like my failure to cultivate an appreciation of Palestrina's music and polyphony in general. My preference has always been for traditional and folk musics.
Okay, Phillip, why didn't you warn me?!? This was SO emotional, and I am crying!
(and there wasn't a dry eye in the house I noticed--even the men were holding back tears)
This boy has the beautiful face of an angel. May our God who loves all His children, whether they know Him as we do or not, bless this beautiful boy with every good thing, and comfort him in his sadness and emptiness of not having his mother anymore.
His voice was lovely yet unremarkable, but the lyrics for his deceased mother WERE most definitely remarkable.
Sorry Alice. A friend of mine from Hong Kong showed it to me when she was visiting once. This was only a couple years after my own mother died. It had me in tears too.
You're right. The boy's voice isn't anything out of the usual, but it is lovely. That's fairly typical of folk and traditional singers and is one of the reason I like them so much.
Still, it has me in tears every time I watch it... which is quite frequently lately. I must be missing my mother.
I'm with you: I ain't "hep" on opera, either. When I was about 10 yrs. old my class was taken to some performing hall in Montreal to see/hear "Madame Butterfly". The only parts I liked were the ones where the Buddhist bonzes gripe her out for becoming Christian and the part where she offs herself. Unfortunately that comes toward the end so I had to sit through what seemed like interminable eons of squallin' and bellerin' and whoopin' and hollerin' before we got there. Just THAT ALONE almost had me in tears. Sounded to me like dying calves in a hailstorm.
That was all the other boys in the class liked, too. Must be a boy-thing...
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