29 April 2007

Sixteen Candles

Before he was famous, tenor Juan Diego Flórez was already puppylicious. Here at at age 16 he sings a pop song on a 1989 televised music festival. (La Cieca can't quite make up her mind if he reminds her more of Duckie in Pretty in Pink or Slater from Saved by the Bell.)

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18 Comments:

Blogger Giorgio said...

omg omg omg omg omg

April 29, 2007 2:45 PM  
Blogger tarandus said...

It's nice to see that the garish, strident Eighties-style makeup and clothing were not unique to English-speaking cultures. Ah, how innocent we were back then.

April 29, 2007 2:49 PM  
Blogger winpal said...

Why, I never knew JDF started his career with Menudo.

Anyone know the legal age in Peru? :)

April 29, 2007 2:56 PM  
Blogger Doug said...

nice saved by the well reference. well played, la cieca!

April 29, 2007 3:23 PM  
Blogger Doug said...

saved by the bell that should say :)

April 29, 2007 3:23 PM  
Blogger Julio said...

Three words come to mind:

Papi, Papi, Papi!

(Incidently, those words still ring true for our papi-licious Rossini tenor.)

April 29, 2007 9:22 PM  
Blogger Alex said...

Oh man...I really want to see young JDF in some kind of early 90s "last days of high school" romp, in which he plays the hot but quiet foreign exchange student who no one really gets until he and the slightly awkward best friend of the main girl have to spend time alone and he tells her about things in "in my country" and sings her a beautiful song which makes her heart melt and then they go to prom together and he gets up on stage and sings a really hot Latin song of uncertain provenance that involves a keytar and saxophone and all the suburban kids learn what dancing really is and feel stoked about going off to college and staying in touch with all their friends.

P.S. That is A.C. Slater all the way...

April 30, 2007 11:25 AM  
Blogger countess_zaleska said...

this is to be remembered next time we make fun of Spanish shows on TV again. We never truly know where real talent might come from.

April 30, 2007 1:59 PM  
Blogger Zinka said...

Dios Mio!!!! Que lastima que la juventud desaparezca!!!

April 30, 2007 2:07 PM  
Blogger Zinka said...

Dios Mio...Es lastima que la juventud desaparezca.

April 30, 2007 2:08 PM  
Blogger Zinka said...

Dios Mio!!! Es lastima que la juventuda desaparezca.

April 30, 2007 2:09 PM  
Blogger scifisci said...

on a different note....i saw the new orfeo production in rehearsal today...what a MESS. That's all i'm going to say

April 30, 2007 3:20 PM  
Blogger Lourdes said...

Screech, no question!

April 30, 2007 7:03 PM  
Blogger NYCOQ said...

Hey with that microphone he can finally be heard over the orchestra...okay on less catty note -

Did anyone catch the performance of Lawrence Brownlee in the Barber at the Met? Good Lord, that kid can sing. It was a wonderful night at the opera last night. Ms. Di Donato was on, as well as the whole cast.

PLUS catching Dawn Upshaw's Townhall recital on Sunday was a real treat. It was so good to see and hear an artist of her caliber back on the boards again. You can hear the effects of the chemo on the voice, but it was overall a very wonderful recital. She was simply amazing - a true artist.I adore her. Now she Thank God we still have her with us.

May 01, 2007 2:19 PM  
Blogger GtelloZ said...

Hilarious! i've laugh so much with my friends watching this video! specially because of the horrible outfits, and he beated two very well known peruvian artist today: Julie Freundt, famous Creole singer, and Diego Bertie, famous soap opera actor =)

May 04, 2007 2:09 AM  
Blogger Piet said...

He beat someone? anyway, it was so un-prettily SHARP. Well, he was a kid.

May 22, 2007 1:08 AM  
Blogger Piet said...

Oh, and he's not wearing makeup. Did you mean Miss La Paz or whatever?

May 22, 2007 1:08 AM  
Blogger RMP said...

I'm thinking Adam Sandler in The Wedding Singer.

May 31, 2007 1:00 AM  

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