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Thomas Hans’ captures trophy and releases new video!

Thomas Award
Thomas Hans’ has been really busy the past few months with school, in fact he has been unable to do little else but school work and activities surrounding that.  However, he has had time to squeeze in a few singing engagements and compete in one contest for which he brought home the winning trophy!

Thomas remains one of the best young singers in Germany and has proven himself to have charisma beyond compare both in person and when entertaining.  He has maintained most of his upper register and has really challenged himself with some rather difficult songs as of late.

While his recent video has been a long awaited one from his fans, he has been busy in the recording studio and produced several new mixes which are being played often on http://theskykid.com/radio. Listen to Thomas sing his version of Nirvana’s “The Man who sold the world”

Today’s post also includes his version of “Ein bißchen Frieden” or “A Little Peace” in English. This song was written by prolific German Eurovision writing duo Ralph Siegel (music) and Bernd Meinunger (lyrics) for the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England.  It was performed by 17 year old high school student Nicole, resulting in Germany’s only ever win at the Eurovision Song Contest by a record margin of sixty one points, setting a new record for the largest winning margin. Here Thomas does it more than justice with his rendition:

For his last song I offer his beautiful version of “Love Of My Life” by Queen. The last good version of this song was recorded by Declan Gelbraith but I know you will simply love Thomas singing this song:


I think you will agree with me that Thomas has a voice that captures your attention and the feeling and expression that he puts into his songs draws you in and keeps you desiring more.

Embedded below is his most recent video and I might add, the best quality video he has ever produced.  Using one of his recent backtracks he lip-syncs to the song “Wonderful Dream”.

Thomas will be around for a long time and even after his voice changes I predict that he will be producing records and be one of Germany’s most sought after recording artists.

And the Winner Is! Allan Clelland Goddard!


Allan Contest
Allan has been a very busy lad lately celebrating and participating in Carnival in his home country of Trinidad & Tabago.  Each year, since Allan was six years old, he has been inv olved with and performed in the Calypso Singing contests!Allan Clelland Goddard sings
This is something that we have not yet even begun to cover in detail for Allan and is most exciting!
Today Allan captured First Place singing his Calypso song written by his very talented mother Deborah.

Perhaps we should start at the beginning!

As you may or may not remember from our first introductory post, Allan was actually born in England, but has spent his entire life in Trinidad and his parents are Trinidadians.
Calypso music and Steelpan are native to Trinidad & Tobago and is very much a part of who Allan has become.

Carnival is celebrated every year in Trinidad & Tobago on the Monday & Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. In the weeks before the celebration there are many calypso competitions in which many people of different age groups participate. This year Allan’s calypso was written by his mum and is called ‘Pan in Meh DNA’ It is written like most calypsos in colloquial language but it is usually not too difficult to understand. The song is about his passion for the music of the Steelpan and how it forms a part of his life.

Allan has made a huge hit with the song in Trinidad & Tabago & it is being played on the local radio stations. He is also selling his cds in Trinidad & donating all the profits to the children of Haiti.

I have been so blessed to get to know Allan through his mother Deborah. I have also found a real joy in learning about the culture of these beautiful people.
It is with great pleasure that I am able to offer his winning song here for your listening pleasure.

Please be sure to leave a comment for Allan congratulating him and his Mother on their
Pictures courtesy of http://trinisoca.com/