Do you know who is Ronan Parke? If you have gone through Facebook, you must have recognize this name which his video is widely circulated through social medias. If you did watch Britains Got Talent 2011, you definitely knew who he is.
I personally did not watch the show, but I did knew that some talented people are discovered from that competition, and it is from this competition that we knew Susan Boyle. She went to fame and achieved widespread international media coverage from her singing ‘I Dreamed a Dream’. It is disappointed that she lost, two years ago but still more famous than the winner, the Diversity.
Back to this latest 5th series, the competition is suddenly brought to my attention when I first played a video shared by many of my friends from Facebook on an awesome audition performance by a young 12 years old boy, Ronan Parke. In the audition, he is so nervous but he sang ‘I’m Feeling Good’ so perfectly that received extreme positive response from the judges as well as the audiences. Almost everyone just stood up and gave great applause to him, admiring his talent and courage on the stage. He then succeeded to the semi final.
In the semi final not long ago, he sang ‘Make You Feel My Love’. That is another perfect performance from him that stunned everyone. Many had already predicted that he would have very high chance of winning this competition. When I played the video of his performance in semi final, I am fully amazed. He definitely nailed the song, and sang it so well that it seems to be from his own style. He also knew how to control his voice.
Time for final. There are 10 finalists, and I don’t bother of looking at others. I just concentrate on the video of his performance which is on singing ‘Because of You’, a very beautiful song which is also suitable in showing all talent out from the singing of this famous song. I can hear a bit of mistake in there, probably due to him lacking of breath added up with high level of nervous, but all together he gave another great performance. His ending of the song is EPIC! I can’t believe someone with only 12 years old can do that, seems to be equipped with some singing experience too.
Eventhough he did not win the competition, with a slightly 3% lower votes than the champion, Jai McDowall, he is definitely going to be a star in very near future. He has a very bright and long future, even predicted to be better than Justin Bieber. I wonder why so many people would want to compare him with Justin. Both are with their different character and style. Even their age difference is around 5 years. Whenever someone gets famous suddenly, he or she would definitely be compared with an existing famous star of around the age. That is how it goes.
Yesterday’s night when I am stressed from the task in completing drawings for design submission today, I stumbled upon the two videos of Ronan’s performance in semi final not long ago and final on last weekend. I am thrilled and the videos made my day. So, then I had more strength on continuing on my assignment. Wow….Ronan, your singing affected my mood….I bet he would be getting more famous than the winner like the similar case back in two years ago (Susan Boyle’s case). Just too bad he didn’t win it…but now, people searched him in internet, people asking him for pictures or autographs…another ‘Justin Bieber’ generation is born…oh…
Watched the videos I shared here? Great, isn’t it?
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