Placido Domingo

So why has opera's biggest star become its busiest talent scout? It may be because of the way he was discovered. As a teenager in Mexico City, his mother, an opera singer, noticed his voice.

"I hit a note and when I hit that note I see the tears coming out from the eyes of my mother," recalls Domingo. "And I said, 'What happened to you? And she said, 'Your voice. That's a real voice. That's a real voice.'"

From a CBS article, Placido Domingo, Star Maker, at
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/13/60minutes/main617239.shtml