These days YouTube singers are a dime-a-dozen and ploughing through countless clips of sub-par performers can drain even the most persistent of YouTubers. That’s where we come in, we sift the wheat from the chaff to bring you little treats like this, the 15-year-old singing sensation who’s tipped to be the next viral hit.

That’s Patrick Sean Bradley, a 15-year-old singer from Durban, in his first YouTube video. His rendition of Muse’s Undisclosed Desire was uploaded just shy of a year ago and has already racked up close to 70 000 hits, not bad for a local boy.

Patrick is one of two musicians (the other is 13-year-old Jarod Cardona) sharing the Puercultura channel on YouTube which is run by Richardt Wissink, a local “musician/vocal technique specialist, with studio production experience” who works directly with the artists. He describes Patrick as follows:

Patrick recently [posted in August 2011] started playing the guitar, and I have seen him make notable progress in a short space of time. He use to be part of a choirboy group, but after 7th grade, he started taking an an interest in acoustic and alternative/folk rock music. He enjoys artists like Muse, Coldplay, Dream Theatre, to name a few, but stay tuned to this channel, and subscribe and you might even get to see him sing some Bieber.

The Puercultura channel has already had over 750 000 hits, many of those coming from Patrick’s contributions.

Below is his most recent video, a cover of Empty Corriders by Ben Howard. After only a few weeks it’s sitting pretty with more than 4 500 views.

[Source: YouTube]