Johnathan & Charlotte - Amazing Opera Duo

By: Raqui with additional information via Internet Soures

If you didnt know NOW YOU KNOW!  In 2012 on Britian's Got Talent a Shy and Nerveous Johnathan along with his talented close friend Charlotte took the stage.  On appreance alone they knew that Johnathan was a loser and waste of time.  How could this fat young man (whose appearance was quite normal but casual for any 17 year old male) be talented?  And who was the pretty young lady next to him who did all the talking?

Internet Source: Jonathan Antoine (born 13 January 1995), and Charlotte Jaconelli (born 24 August 1995), known collectively as Jonathan and Charlotte, are an English classical crossover duo from Essex. Both were unknown prior to Britain's Got Talent, but were paired together at West Hatch High School, in Chigwell, Essex by the school's singing coach Jenny Ewington.  Their head of music, Ginette Tomlinson, chose "The Prayer", originally performed by Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion, which they sang for their GCSE and also at their teacher's church wedding ceremony.    Before shooting to fame on the hit TV show, Charlotte was training full-time in Musical Theatre at the Arts Educational Schools, London, while Jonathan was training classically at the Royal Academy of Music part-time as a junior.

Through the interview you learn that Johnathan was a victim (like almost every single large person in the world) of bullying, prejudice and self esteem wreaking hate throw upon him daily by others.  Charlotte was his friend who trained with him (when matched up together by their vocal teacher) on developing an act together.  Jonathan give a lot of him self esteem to his friendship with Charlotte.  Now these two take the stage together to have a shot to see if they can make it on the show.

When they began to sing everyone is amazed.  OMG the fat kid can sing Opera of all things!  Now Johnathan Charlotte didnt just sing some Opera... while Charlotte was great Johnathan knocked everyone off there feet and for a loop.

Internet Source:  An overweight, badly dressed contestant lumbers awkwardly on to the Britain's Got Talent stage, prompting the judges to roll their eyes at the inevitable car-crash of a performance to follow. . . only to be wowed by the powerful, pitch-perfect voices of the unlikely stars." Simon Cowell noted that Jonathan's voice sounded as good as Luciano Pavarotti, and he hadn't heard such a superb Opera voice in years.

Watch Johnathan And Charlotte's Performance

 So What Happen to Johnathan and Charlotte?

Internet Source - They finished as runners-up in the sixth series of Britain's Got Talent in 2012, being beaten to the winning post on 12 May by dancing dog act Ashleigh and Pudsey.  At the time, they were aged 17 and 16 respectively. Despite not winning, the young duo were offered a £1million record deal by Simon Cowell on his record label Syco. They have since released their album Together which reached No. 5 in the UK Album Charts. The album was released in the USA and Canada on October 30, 2012.

What and inspiration Johnathan and his friend Charlotte are.  Charlotte said it best herself "Don't Judge a Book by its cover... you have to have a look inside".   Johnathan now is spoken in terms of having perfect pitch, perfect tone, a perfect voice for a male Opera Star.  Johnathan shows us that perfect comes in Large Sizes.  He didnt let his weight stop him from a dream, from working hard, training hard and loving himself and his talent.  We should all be like this amazing young man and his dear friend.

Their CD, “Together” is available on Amazon 

Learn more about Johnathan and Charlotte at the following link -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_and_Charlotte