Holland's Got Talent - Amira Willighagen age 9

[Stanfordian]

How's this for a big voice in small body! Out of such a cheesy production comes such a surprising voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBMfgLvRZJs

Evidently she's never had a singing lesson. She just listens to a song and then copies it.

[french frank]

I've heard this before. She creates a kind of, mmm, 'Classic FM tendresse' among the audience - and that is not at all a bad thing, in my view. Remember that the original Barberina in Figaro was only 12!

[gradus]

Astonishing voice seemingly produced without any sense of strain, very rare indeed.

[Barbirollians]

Struggled rather more with the low notes of Ave Maria - she may well be the next Charlotte Church poor kid .

It must be very hard I always think for a boy treble like Aled Jones who had such a beautiful and interesting treble voice to grow up with a very ordinary, bland and unremarkable adult singing voice . Some of course like Stuart Burrows do become great singers. It would be fascinating to know what the treble voices were like of the greatest tenors and baritones etc .

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Struggled rather more with the low notes of Ave Maria - she may well be the next Charlotte Church poor kid .

... whereas the judges' reaction was more noveau Subo? Astonishing performance, and it was interesting that the backstage compere knew the aria - I wonder if Ant on Deck would be able to do so.