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Mansel Stimpson talks to the South African tenor who is making his second Covent Garden appearance within two months
When Colin Lee left his place of birth, Cape Town, and headed for England he was twenty-three years old and not without musical experience.
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In particular from the age of nine to twelve he had been a member of the Drakensberg Boys’ Choir and travelling in that capacity to Europe and to the States. Nevertheless when he departed from South Africa it was without any intention of developing a singing career for he had already qualified as a chartered accountant and pursued this profession on arrival in the UK.
However, Colin was well aware that singing meant a lot to him – as a member of school choirs and taking lessons in Cape Town simply for the pleasure of it. “I’d become absolutely fascinated by the voice through listening to people like Pavarotti, Domingo and Gigli.
How they did what they did absolutely entranced me. I’d always had singing within me and I had