Thank You To EVERYBODY!

February 21, 2010

WOW! What a weekend, and what a 6 weeks it has been! I don’t know where to start really. It feels amazing to be the winner and I am so happy. I did my bit but I just could not have done this without all of you and your continued support. I thank every single one of you for picking up the phone. Sometimes the show was stressful, I was anxious every week from Monday until Friday 10pm, a lot of the time it was very physically and mentally emotional but I have had the time of my life and it was ALWAYS fun and rewarding!

Thank you everyone SO MUCH for voting for me over the past 6 weeks, it has been amazing, and you will hear more from me very soon so keep posted, follow me on twitter and facebook to keep up to date with all my TV appearances and maybe even more in the next few months!

 

I'm hoping that meant weeks or, preferably, days

 

edited to add that this was posted on his official site.

Edited February 21, 201015 yr by megham

OMG Aww bless him,that is such a Lovely message and this is excactly what makes him so very very special to us even when it is HIS moment :wub: , he always still spends time praising and thanking us all bless him............i'm going to say it again, he is just so so so so very special to us!! :wub: (hug)

 

OMG just cant contain my EXITMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :yahoo:

maybe more..there best be!

just had a thought about Darius sining this in Opera

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkkw8RhH9ck,

 

you raise me up, just had that thought come to me there

I'd rather one of his own but thanks for the link, Claire.

Did Blake sing this on songs of praise? I think I want an album of Darius singing EVERYTHING tbh, really needling me now that its been so long since we saw or heard him in his own right, excluding PSTOOPS

Yes, that's definitely what Blake sang on the Big Sing.

 

 

If D and Blake combined to release a single, I feel it would most likely hit the top spot, with Blake's popularity and D's current exposure from PSTOS. I don't have enough knowledge of this type of music to make suggestions, but I know you guys will, so what do you think would be good?

 

Obviously. this is all just speculation, but it's fun all the same :)

I'd like to hear his new stuff before I decide that, Paul. In fact, I'd love to hear his new stuff anyway.

OMG so wouldi too Meg !..............................and by the sounds of it, we will be VERY SION INDEED!!!!!!!!!WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :yahoo:

Edited February 22, 201015 yr by darius4me

I'd certainly like to hear his new stuff too Meg, but if he was able to do this quickly, it could hit top spot and would also alert people to the fact that he's got a new album out, leading to increased sales IMO.

 

The Impossible Dream with Darius and Stephen counter singing and harmonising with the three tenors in Blake?

 

How Great Thou Art

 

Can I say "Stars"................ again...............Stephen and Darius duetting with the tenors doing their backing vocals.

 

That would be satisfying - the baritones getting the lead for once.

Edited February 22, 201015 yr by Baytree

I think that's half the problem, the public are so used to tenors, including me, that they find it harder to relate to baritones

Edited February 22, 201015 yr by megham

that is very true

I think that's half the problem, the public are so used to tenors, including me, that they find it harder to relate to baritones

 

And there was me thinking you were a soprano...........................

OK

 

The public, including me, are so used to tenors that they find it harder to relate to baritones.

 

Sigh!

 

I am a total non singer. I just don't sing but I do doubt I'm a baritone.

I think over the six weeks people got more used to hearing Darius singing a good bit lower than their favourite crossover singer(s).

 

The more often he and other (bass) baritones are given prime time slots or guest slots in prestigious concerts , the public's ears may start to re-attune.

Even in the duet, I found the beginning just too low for his voice. After that though, it was slightly higher and his voice was fantastic. I don't think bass is for him.

As I said , I believe Rolando did that to show that Darius can sing at that really low level, rather than just hit one note and hold it as he'd done previously in the show. That he could take on Non-Mozart arias.

 

Few songs would ever require it but some might. Old Man River, Some of Johnny Cash's maybe.

I think he's got more work to do to sing that low well. No doubt he will make the effort if he needs to.