I was listening to a Rob Bell message this morning, and he actually showed the video of Paul Pots during his message. I’ve seen the video before, but hearing it again this morning jogged my memory, and so I thought I’d share it with ya’ll.

I’m not sure how many of you are familiar with the “America’s Got Talent” tv show on NBC, but there is British version of this show as well (not so surprising). Both, coincidentally, are produced by Simon Cowell, so you kinda get the idea behind the show.

In the last season of the British show, there was a man who tried out for the show by the name of Paul Pots — a car phone salesman from Wales who sings Opera. Most of us are accustomed to Simon Cowell ripping performers and telling them how utterly horrible they are for trying to sing, but when Paul Pots got up to audition, he left Simon Cowell speechless. So if you haven’t seen the videos on YouTube, I put the audition clip below, and you can check out all the other performances by Paul Pots as the competition went on (he ended up winning the whole thing). But it’s just an amazing story on so many different levels and even though I’m not a big fan of opera, his singing will give you “goosepimples”, as the Brits say.