Groban's 'Awake'
Latest CD more evidence of his prodigious talent
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 03.22.2007
Give Josh Groban his props: How many 26-year-old pop singers can stand before an audience and sing from the heart the inspirational words "Don't give up / It's just the hurt that you hide" then segue into a stirring operatic aria?
That's the first five minutes. A few more classical turns, a dip into the Great American Songbook and a few self-penned purely pop gems, including a sultry love song that casts Groban watching "the morning dawn upon your skin / A splinter in the light / It caught and frayed the very heart of us."
Hot stuff.
Now for the goosebumps: Groban sings an adaptation from the soul-arresting "A Time for Us" from the 1968 movie "Romeo and Juliet," in Italian, with a soaring string section — part pop, part opera.
Yep, goosebumps.
Groban is on the road promoting his latest CD, the critically acclaimed "Awake," which features several self-penned songs including the love song "Now or Never" and the piano ballad "February Song."
— Cathalena E. Burch
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