SHOW: Patrizio Buanne and Natasha Marsh SA Tour
DATES:
*September 26 - NMMU Indoor Centre, Port Elizabeth
*September 28 - His People Centre, Cape Town
*September 29 and 30 - Carnival City, Gauteng
PRICE: R206-R375
SOUTH Africa is already smitten with Italian Patrizio Buanne and if you missed out before, he is back to charm audiences once again.
And this time he is joined by sultry Welsh songstress Natasha Marsh, who has already won over the hearts of the British public.
Buanne, a romantic crooner, and Marsh, a critically-acclaimed opera singer, are packing up the dusty stereotypes and locking them firmly away. Both are beautiful young artists, neither typical of their genre nor today’s pop stars.
On his fourth visit to this country, the soft-spoken and immensely charming Buanne is proud of his South African fanbase. Both his albums, The Italian and Forever Begins Tonight, have reached platinum sales here, and he has performed a number of sell-out shows.
With his stunning good looks, Buanne has been described as a man women want and men want to be like. But this doesn’t seem to worry him, and he is thankful that, unlike many pop stars, he has not had to change himself to meet industry expectations.
Buanne shares his culture through passionate and beautiful Italian songbook standards. “These are timeless songs” he explains, “but I have chosen songs that speaks to life today.”
As he describes it, audiences will coming to the shows for a little piece of an ideal world (one in which men talk about romance).
Buanne will be supported by Marsh. Tall, blond and bubbling over with passion and energy, Marsh, arrived in South Africa after a very successful two-month European tour with Il Divo.
Marsh’s first album Amour was released in SA this week. Each song on the album was personally chosen and is sung with passion.
“You have got to love the music and feel it deeply to be convincing,” she says.
This CD has given her an opportunity to use her voice in different ways and go beyond her operatic repertoire. In one of those stories that has a touch of magic, EMI signed Marsh after hearing her perform only three songs.
Both Buanne and Marsh agree that the shows will be full of passion and devastatingly romantic.
Tickets can be booked at Computicket www.computicket.co.za and all Shoprite Checkers outlets.
Source: Citizen
