28 Jan 2005

Encountering David Daniels

``I’m Tom Brady’s best friend,’’ joked David Daniels. ``I’m sure he’d love to read that!’’ OK, the world’s leading countertenor isn’t really Brady’s bud. ``But I did meet him,’’ Daniels continued. ``It was when I sang (Handel’s) `Messiah’ in Ann Arbor.’’ Brady was quarterback for the University of Michigan football team when Daniels, now 38, was a graduate student there. ``A lot of times the football players would come to concerts – they were always trying to enlighten them to the music world, arts and culture – and he came backstage and I got to shake his hand,’’ Daniels recalled. ``If you asked him, he might remember me as this guy who sang like a woman.’‘

Countertenor Daniels hits high notes in life, opera

By T.J. Medrek [Boston Herald]
Friday, January 28, 2005

``I'm Tom Brady's best friend,'' joked David Daniels. ``I'm sure he'd love to read that!''
OK, the world's leading countertenor isn't really Brady's bud.
``But I did meet him,'' Daniels continued. ``It was when I sang (Handel's) `Messiah' in Ann Arbor.''
Brady was quarterback for the University of Michigan football team when Daniels, now 38, was a graduate student there.
``A lot of times the football players would come to concerts - they were always trying to enlighten them to the music world, arts and culture - and he came backstage and I got to shake his hand,'' Daniels recalled. ``If you asked him, he might remember me as this guy who sang like a woman.''

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