Challenges Online posted on May 25, 2009 19:23
Susan Boyle makes it to ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ finals next Saturday, with her rousing rendition of the song "Memory" from the musical "Cats" during the semifinals yesterday.
Wearing a plum colored sparkling beaded dress, Susan’s performance has brought her one step closer to her dream to become a professional singer.
Susan Boyle, 48, from Blackburn, West Lothian, UK, took the cyber world by storm when her stunning audition at reality tv show, Britain’s Got Talent went online.
When Boyle first walked onto the stage of the talent-spotting progra
mme, her dowdy appearance did not make her a favourite with the audience and judges.
When Simon Cowell asked her, ‘What’s your dream?, snd she answered “I want to be a professional singer. she was dismissed as a unsuccessful wannabe with a nerve of wanting to emulate celebrity Elaine Paige.
Then she started to sing and the rest, as they say, is history.
Her powerful performance of "I Dreamed a Dream", stunned the judges, the audience as well as entranced 60 million online viewers.
The youngest in her family, with four brothers and six sisters, Boyle was briefly deprived of oxygen during birth and was diagnosed with learning disabilities. As a child she was bullied and was nicknamed “Susie Simple”
Since her first performance went online, many local and international newspapers carried articles on Boyle's Britain's Got Talent appearances, life and family.
Boyle has also been interviewed on STV's The Five Thirty Show, CBS's Early Show, ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's Today and FOX's America's Newsroom, CNN's Larry King Live, as well as The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Her idol, Elaine Paige has also expressed interest in singing a duet with her.
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