Paul Potts from Port Talbot in South Wales, is a British singer. He was born on 13 October 1970 in Bristol, England.

Potts first sang opera in 1999 in a karaoke competition, dressed as Pavarotti. That same year he appeared in the Michael Barrymore talent show My Kind of Music.

On July 8, 2007, Potts performed at a Katherine Jenkins' concert at Margam Park, "Katherine In The Park". Jenkins extended an invitation for him to sing his rendition of "Nessun Dorma" at the concert. On July 16, 2007, his debut album One Chance was released in UK, and on July 22, 2007, the album claimed the number one spot in the UK Album Chart. On November 6, 2007, Potts appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show to perform on a show whose topic was Youtube.

In December 2007, along with Simon Cowell in his Rolls-Royce Phantom he was driven to Number 10 Downing Street to be greeted by the Prime Minister, The Rt.Hon. Gordon Brown MP who presented Paul with a discography plaque for the acheivement of selling 2,000,000 copies of his single and for showing that ".. Britain really does have huge amounts of talent." - Gordon Brown, December 2007.