Hello alroebelenii,
The singer to whom you refer is Aled Jones, who was born in Wales on
December 29, 1970. He has his own web site at
http://www.aledjones.co.uk/ His career as a boy soprano started when
he was 12 and continued until his voice broke when he was 16. Perhaps
his best known recording of that time is the theme song of the film
“The Snowman” (Walking in the Air). Taking the advice of a famous
tenor, Stuart Burrows, not to sing for five years after his voice
broke, he then disappeared from view for a while, becoming a
county-level tennis player and studying at the Royal Academy of Music.
He had some experience as an actor and then began a career as a TV
and radio presenter. Recently, however, he begin to feel that he was
getting back a proper singing voice and has become a regular presenter
and performer on the Sunday BBC TV show “Songs of Praise” and on
Sunday mornings presents a show on the Classic fm radio station. He
can sing countertenor, but he calls his “new voice” a high baritone.
If you go to his web site and select “Music”, you can hear extracts
from his new album (unfortunately the web site does not appear to have
a section listing his albums with titles!).
You can read an interview with Aled Jones at
http://www.cambriamagazine.com/aled.htm (Cambria Magazine,
The latest album released by Aled is called “Aled” (Catalogue Number:
0644792
Released: 14 October, 2002 , Audio CD, Catalogue Number: 0644792,
ASIN: B00006J3KG.)
The track “O Holy Night” features the adult Adult singing in duet with
the young Aled!
It is available on Amazon UK for £13.99
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006J3KG/ref=sr_aps_music_1_1/202-0729516-5525423
Amazon UK also has:
From the Heart
Audio CD (22 April, 2002)
Label: Castle Pulse
ASIN: B000060K8Z
Catalogue Number: PLSCD459
Cost £5.99
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000060K8Z/qid=1052044381/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3_3/202-0729516-5525423
Also available as Audio CD (11 November, 2002)
Label: Planet Media
ASIN: B00005424M
Catalogue Number: PML1024
Cost £4.99
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005424M/ref=sr_aps_music_1_2/202-0729516-5525423
Aled Jones: Ave Maria (This is Aled in his boy soprano days)
Label: Sain
Catalogue Number: SCDC2095
Released: 1 February, 1995
Cost £11.99
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000261X5/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/202-0729516-5525423
Since you make reference to Australia, and I assume this is where you
live, I have found that HMV Australia has in stock “Aled”, “From the
Heart”, and also one of his boyhood albums, “Pie Jesu”:
Aled
Catalogue: 0644792
Released: 7 Apr 2003
Label: ABC-CLASSICS
AUD $28.95
http://www.hmv.com.au/v4/product/classical.asp?sku=870658
From the Heart
Catalogue: PML1024
Format:CD
Released: 18 Apr 2001
Label: SONY
AUD $11.99
http://www.hmv.com.au/v4/product/classical.asp?sku=798602
Pie Jesu
Catalogue: 7878232
Format:CD
Released: 31 Jul 1995
Label: VIRGIN
AUD $9.99
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000261X5/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/202-0729516-5525423
There do not appear to be any DVDs of Aled Jones. A video of Christmas
carols, called “The New Born King” was released in 1986. |
