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My secret crush on two stars and why Cliff Richard tried to change my name to Watson Russo.By Russell Watson. After I started including Nessun Dorma in my club set, my act really took off. I became serious about my voice, somehow managing to scrape together enough money to pay for lessons with a coach. It paid off and my big break came in 1996, playing a ...
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Russell Watson, the famous tenor who suffered a recurrent brain tumour, faces the prospect of further life-saving surgery and is plagued by fears that he will go blind. The 41-year-old singer, known as The Voice, has twice undergone emergency operations to remove tumours close to his optic nerve. Doctors were unable to take out all of the tumour during the second operation, however, and it could regrow. Although ...
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Opera star Russell Watson has returned to hospital to thank the staff who saved his life. The Salford-born singer was rushed into surgery last year after a scan showed his brain tumour had returned. Russell, 41, nicknamed The Voice, delayed a three-hour operation he feared he might not survive so he could speak to his two daughters. Fortunately surgery at the Alexandra Hospital , in Cheadle, went well ...
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Opera singer talks frankly about his second brain operation As he lay in the back of the speeding ambulance, Russell Watson knew he was on the verge of death. The world-famous tenor could hear the mounting clamour of the paramedics. "He's on the edge... I think he's haemorrhaging... get him into MRI. NOW!" Just months after gruelling surgery had removed a brain tumour the size of a golf ball, a ...
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Russell Watson, the famous tenor, has revealed how he was convinced he was going to die after a second cancerous tumour was found on his brain. Mr Watson,41, who had already had a life-threatening golf-ball sized growth removed from his brain in 2006, described his feelings of dejection as he lay in an ambulance rushing him from his home to the nearby Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle. “I ...
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British opera singer Russell Watson was so traumatised throughout his brain tumour ordeal, he wished for death to end his suffering. The 41-year-old tenor fell ill during a recording session in October (07) and underwent emergency surgery after doctors discovered he had fallen victim to a second tumour - just a year after his first operation to remove a growth from his brain. And Watson admits that ...
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'You should try that Nesty Doormat': What Russell Watson was told when he discovered his opera voice The pub I was playing in was in the south of Manchester, right in the middle of an estate. Setting up my gear, I could sense an unmistakable crackle in the air, as though something was going to kick off. Nine o'clock rolled around and I got the nod and ...
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Opera star Russell Watson is to sing for the first time since his brain tumour op, at tonight's Ricky Hatton fight. Boxer Ricky, 29, asked fellow Mancunian Russell, 41, if he would sing before he faces Mexican fighter Juan Lazcano. Russell,  nicknamed The Voice had a second brain tumour removed last October. A scan had revealed that a benign tumour removed in 2006 had regrown. He will sing ...
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Britain's Russell Watson, the 'people's tenor' is coming back to Japan. Renowned for his golden voice, he will be accompanied by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and up-and-coming violinist Emiri Miyamoto Watson will perform selections from his latest album, "Outside In," released in Japan on Wednesday. The set list will include an updated version of "Nessun Dorma," which is dedicated to the late Luciano Pavarotti. A rendition of a ...
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Singer Russell Watson has shown he is fighting fit by sparring with his personal trainer for a special edition of Tonight With Trevor McDonald. The 41-year-old superstar from Wilmslow who had a second brain tumour removed in October - put on the boxing gloves and worked out with Glenn Williams at the Total Fitness gym in Wilmslow, Cheshire. And the session will now be screened as part ...
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