Belgian tenor Helmut Lotti has done Elvis, sung crossover classical music, crooned to stadium audiences across the globe, and even belted out Latino and African hits.
Belgian singer Helmut Lotti points to photographers as he arrives at the Plaza hotel ahead of the Platinum Europe Music Awards ceremony in Brussels in this July 13, 2000 file photo. REUTERS/Yves Herman/Files
But now Lotti, a top-selling Flemish artist with a 20-year career jumping between easy-listening musical genres, is going to try something new -- being himself.
"I am at a point where I feel like changing radically ... it is time to be original," 39-year-old Lotti told Reuters in an interview on Thursday during an Australian tour.
"I would like to stop taking popular music and changing it around because in the end you feel is the success due to me or is it the fact that I am a touring juke box? I am going to write my own stuff."read more
