Those A&R geniuses over at Sony BMG have done it again, signing 33 year old former shepherd and massage therapist/bricklayer Costel Busuioc to a recording contract after he placed first in the televised singing competiton “Hijos de Babel.” (The title of the show means “Children of Babel,” which La Cieca believes was also an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. But your doyenne, as she is wont to do, digresses.)

The angle in “Hijos de Babel” is that all the competitors are immigrant workers in Spain. Tenor Busuioc triumphed over a field that included “a Cuban model, a Cuban singing duo, a former gynaecologist from Togo, twin brothers from Venezuela and a Syrian doctor,” all of whom, La Cieca devoutly hopes, then walked into a bar, with hilarity ensuing.

Upon winning the prize, Busuioc quipped, “My life now depends on God, and Sony.” Well, La Cieca prefers not to question the workings of the Almighty, but she’s sure that once you have experienced this clip from “Hijos de Babel,” you will all be able to form your own opinions about Sony.

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[via Telegraph]