DAS SUPERTALENT

ick Ferretti, a 30-year-old singer and musician from Nelson, has had a stellar career in the field of busking. He toured New Zealand in a lime-green Bedford bus and performed in the streets of Melbourne’s Chinatown. Then, after moving to Europe, he found a great spot right outside the Real Madrid store in Palma de Mallorca. It was there that a TV celebrity spotted him playing Sting’s “Fields of Gold”. Dieter Bohlen, a singer himself and a kind of godfather in the world of German talent shows, put a video on social media. At Bohlen’s behest, Ferretti participated in the 2019 contest of — the country’s series. Ferretti came in second, not first.