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Across
the Universe of Time |
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Never
Say Goodbye |
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Beat
of Your Heart |
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Pokarekare
Ana |
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Who
Painted the Moon Black? |
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River
of Dreams |
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Benedictus
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Hine
Hine |
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Dark
Waltz |
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| 10
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Amazing
Grace |
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| 11
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My
Heart & I |
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| 12
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In
Trutina |
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Heaven
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Wuthering
Heights |
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Pokarekare
Ana - Duet With Russell Watson (bonus Track)
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True talent is indefinable. You can pontificate about perfect
pitch, analyse the cadence of every note, wax lyrical about the
feast before you, but you know when people come along and say
they love to listen to their CD every day that something special
has been communicated.
A voice like Hayley Westenra's can be nurtured and guided
through maturity, but its source belongs to nature. Born into
a family of singers - her grandparents on both sides sang in pubs
and on the radio - Hayley's perfect pitch was noticed by a schoolteacher
when at the age of six she performed in a school Christmas play.
She is now 16, a major artist in her native New Zealand, with
a performance portfolio that includes the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
and Russell Watson. Hayley's voice so inspired New Zealand opera
diva Dame Malvina Major she offered to tutor her. For Hayley,
Dame Malvina has become a mentor and muse.
With so much happening so quickly you would expect a precocious
teenager to be the result. Hayley is neither arrogant nor falsely
demure, just a young woman with the regular passions of someone
her age and an irregular ability to express herself beyond her
years.
She knows that to put a song across you have to first understand
what it is saying, then get inside it and express its emotion
to your audience. It doesn't matter whether it is an operatic
piece in French, German or Italian (languages she's studied),
or English or Maori, she makes sure she is aware of every nuance.
Hayley has broken new artistic ground in her choice of songs for
"Pure", her first international CD release.
Check out some tracks from Hayley's new album:
Pokarekare Ana Real
Audio
Who Painted The Moon Black Real
Audio
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