The voice of a generation is back, alive and most certainly kicking with the new album ‘La Voce’.
Recorded with the Roma Sinfonietta - Ennio Morricone’s orchestra of choice - and produced by Mike Hedges, Russell Watson’s voice has never sounded better.
Stronger, more driven and powerful, his renditions of Pino Donaggio’s Io Che Non Vivo (Senza Te), Mario Lanza’s Arrivederci Roma and Parla Piu Piano (the theme from The Godfather) are as impressive as you’d expect from a man singing with, literally, a new lease of life after overcoming two life-threatening brain tumors.
In 2008, when the Salford born tenor finished radiotherapy for the pituitary tumor that saw him undergoing emergency surgery, he decided to embark on a return to music.
He soon found that his treatment had given him not just a fresh outlook on the world, but a whole new, deeper, richer voice. “The tumor could have been growing for 10-15 years in my nasal cavity, so when I had it cut out I went from a V8 to a V12!”
