Andrew Johnston (born 1994) is a British singer who rose to fame when he appeared as a boy soprano on the second series of the British television talent show Britain's Got Talent in 2008. He sang "Pie Jesu" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem in the finals. Although he did not win, he received a contract to record on the SyCo Music label owned by the Britain's Got Talent judge Simon Cowell. Johnston's debut album, One Voice, was released in September of the same year, and reached number four on the UK Albums Chart. Johnston was born in Dumfries, Scotland, and grew up in Carlisle. He became head chorister at Carlisle Cathedral, and was bullied at school for his love of classical music. While some journalists have argued that Britain's Got Talent producers exaggerated Johnston's rough background, others have hailed his story as inspirational. In 2009, he graduated from Trinity School. He sings in the National Youth Choir as a baritone and studies full-time at the Royal Northern College of Music.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1606:
The first recorded performance of the play King Lear, a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the legendary King Lear of the Britons, was held. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lear
1825:
Imperial Russian Army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Constantine removed himself from the line of succession. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolt
1898:
At the French Academy of Sciences, physicists Pierre and Marie Curie (both pictured) announced the discovery of a new element, naming it radium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium
1919:
American baseball player Babe Ruth was sold by the Boston Red Sox to their rivals, the New York Yankees, starting the 84-year-long Curse of the Bambino. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Bambino
1991:
The Supreme Soviet officially dissolved itself, completing the dissolution of the Soviet Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
gulp: 1. To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow. 2. To react nervously by swallowing. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gulp
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. --Thomas Gray https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Gray
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