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Nathan Pacheco
Nathan Pacheco was a featured soloist with Yanni Voices tour and introduced vocals to what had been strictly instrumental music. He is a trained operatic tenor voice who sings with power, sensitivity, passion, romance, and fire. Yanni claims that Nathan connects with popular music through his musical and emotional connections. Nathan is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was born in Washington, D.C., U.S.A., but who has Brazilian roots. Nathan claims that the spirit of Brazil is in his voice and vocal renditions. Pacheco served as a full-time missionary in the Campinas Brazil Mission from 1999 to 2001. He eventually traveled throughout Brazil, performing both classical as well as some of Brazil's cultural music. He also spent time in Italy, studying the language while performing with the Opera Festival of Lucca. He has worked to learn the languages of the countries he has traveled in and can speak and compose in English, Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish.
He is a 2005 Brigham Young University graduate in vocal performance. While pr
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The BYU speech that inspired him to sing and 11 other facts about Nathan Pacheco
Nathan Pacheco is doing something he's never done before.
For the first time in his career, the multilingual, classically trained tenor has produced an album of sacred songs, his way of singing praises to the Lord and helping people feel a deeper spiritual connection in their lives.
"This album stands apart from others I've done. Those have come from the heart, but these songs are tapping into the deepest part of my heart," Pacheco said in a Deseret News telephone interview. "My belief in the Lord, my gratitude and devotion, have resulted in the creation of this album ... one of the most fulfilling things I have ever done."
The album, "Higher," was released Friday, Feb. 10, and features 12 religious songs, including "Amazing Grace," "His Love," "How Great Thou Art" and his original "Through All My Days."
Pacheco, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, described the process of producing the al
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Nathan Pacheco talks mental health, covenant living, and singing for Pres. Nelson
Nathan Pacheco was sure that the only solution was to go home. As a young missionary serving in the Campinas Brazil Mission far away from his family, he’d perhaps expected to feel a closeness to them despite the distance—after all, his grandfather had grown up in Brazil. But the homesickness he felt was unrelenting, and when he called his family on Christmas Day in 1999, he was ready to go home.
“I was on the phone with my dad, bawling my eyes out and telling him that I wanted to come home,” Nathan says. His dad’s response would change not only Nathan’s mission, but largely the direction of his life. “He said to me, ‘Nathan, to know is to love.’ He was inviting me to really get to know the Brazilian people, knowing that [doing so] would invite a love into my heart that would make all the difference.”
The approach Nathan settled on to get to know and love the Brazilian people pushed him out of his comfort zone every day. And when he woke up in his second area feeling happy for the first time in m
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