John Owen-Jones - Unmasked

Award winning performer and West-End leading man John Owen-Jones has just released his second album ‘Unmasked’ for Sain Records. The album contains songs from all over the musical theatre world and a few, less expected feature tracks like the power-house cover of Tom Jones' Thunderball and Bad Finger's Without You - made famous by Harry Nilsson.

Owen-Jones has one of the best voices in musical theatre: it has wonderful clarity as well as power and he is one of the few performers who, when he goes for the big moment in a song you can trust 100% he'll hit it. The highlights for me are; Thunderball, This is the Moment, Being Alive and Down To The Sea.

Tracklisting;

Nature Boy featured in Moulin Rouge

Thunderball

This is the Moment from Jeckyll and Hyde

Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera

Til' I Hear You Sing from Love Never Dies

All I Ask of You from Phantom of the Opera

Being Alive from Company

I Don't Remember You/Sometimes A Day Goes By from As The World Goes Round

Down to the Sea from Kristina

Somewhere from West Side Story

Without You

Love of my Life

Bring Him Home from Les Miserables

Hallelujah

This is an album of great quality by one of musical theatre's best leading men. It showcases Owen-Jones' talents and allows us to hear what he can do free from the two shows he is most associated with - The Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables. The tracks from those which he sings here, are done so with a beautiful clarity, emotion and power - I personally would love to see him in another headline role but for the moment I will have to be content with this excellent album and seeing him in Phantom when it comes to Edinburgh in September.

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