Susan Boyle
Susan Boyle Magda Lane ( born April 1, 1961 in Blackburn, West Lothian ) is a Scottish singer who became known to a wider audience by their appearance in the third season of the talent show Britain's Got Talent 2009. Through her rendition of " I Dreamed a Dream " from the musical Les Misérables she gained international fame.
Article about her appeared globally; Videos of her performance were called in the first week of tens of millions of times. In the talent show she finally reached the second place. Your published in 2009 debut album I dreamed a dream was a commercial success both nationally and internationally, as well as the two successor albums The Gift (2010) and Someone to Watch Over Me ( 2011).
- 6.1 albums
- 6.2 Singles
- 6.3 As a guest musician
Life
Boyle is the youngest of nine children and lives in Blackburn, a town in West Lothian near Edinburgh in Scotland. From her classmates she was teased because of their appearance; Classmates wrote her a learning disability and therefore they teased. The weekly magazine Der Spiegel reported in December 2013 that her Asperger's syndrome was diagnosed, as well as an above-average intelligence; Susan Boyle expressed his relief over this diagnosis.
Since her childhood, she received singing lessons in Livingston, Scotland. However, she ended her singing career in order to care for her sick mother, who died at the age of 91 years in 2007. When appearance in the regional finals of "Britain's Got Talent ", she sang for the first time since the death of her mother. Boyle mentioned in the Washington Post that she had participated in the contest in memory of her late mother. This had encouraged once to give it a performance in front of a larger audience than the parish church.
Boyle is unmarried and was unemployed before her singing career.
TV appearance
In the first round of the third season of " Britain's Got Talent ," Boyle offered 11 April 2009 " I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables dar. This performance has been widely used and the video for this was more than 100 million times on the online video platform YouTube views. About this reaction Boyle said to have been touched and amazed.
Before appearing jury and the audience were skeptical. During the presentation, and then, however, she received strong positive feedback and approval from the live audience and the jury. The television show was recorded in Scotland in January 2009.
On 24 May 2009, Boyle was titled "Memory " from the musical Cats qualify for the final of the competition where they took second place on 30 May 2009. After the performance, she was so exhausted that she had to be rushed to a hospital.
Media Coverage
Many British newspapers reported on Boyle's performance and the reaction to it on the internet. Colin Robertson, a journalist in the British tabloid The Sun called it " Paula Potts " in reference to the winner of the first season, Paul Potts.
The international press also took notice of it, including the German news magazine Der Spiegel, but also magazines in Asia and North America reported on Boyle. In the U.S., was announced by ABC News that the latest pop sensation Boyle Britain was perhaps and was called " The woman who brought Simon Cowell [ one of the jurors ] to silence". Again, attracted more journalists parallels to Paul Potts, who became famous also as an unexpected singing talent by the British talent show.
Likewise responded several U.S. television in the form of satellite interviews, including CBS, ABC and FOX.
However, the most important role in the dissemination of Boyle's fame playing sites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. The video of their performance on YouTube has been retrieved in the first 72 hours nearly 2.5 million times, already on April 17, 2009, six days after the show, it was 22 million calls the most watched video of the month worldwide. The Los Angeles Times wrote that the popularity of this video is based in the emotional width within a short time frame, making it perfect for doing the Internet, where short clips include. Boyle's fame was also published on the website Twitter, among other things, by the celebrity couple Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. When she learned of this, Boyle admitted to have never heard of Kutcher and even if her name " Demi Moore" say something to know about them relatively little. Nevertheless, she thanked them for their support.
In addition to the media coverage of the hype about Susan Boyle, the singer also boosted music note sales. The sung her song "I Dreamed A Dream" was shortly after the appearance of the most purchased items on Musicnotes.com.
More career
The debut album of Susan Boyle I Dreamed a Dream in 2009, immediately became the best-selling album of all time in the UK. Their other albums were successful worldwide.
There followed many other appearances: Sun, Boyle met on 13 May 2012 at Windsor Castle to mark the Diamond Jubilee for the Queen, and sang Mull of Kintyre by Paul McCartney. In November 2012, she sang together with her idol Donny Osmond in Las Vegas a duet.
In July 2013 Susan Boyle went on a critically acclaimed tour with seven concerts throughout Scotland. It was the first time that she created live whole evenings alone. This concert tour was in preparation for an international tour that will take place in 2014.
In December 2013, British cinema of the movie The Christmas Candle ran to where Boyle not only sings, but also has taken a secondary role.
Charity CD
Back in 1999, Boyle took the song Cry Me a River for a charity CD at a school in Whitburn on. This recording has now been published on the Internet and has immediately receive encouragement. It has also the beginning of 2010 as Helping Haiti charity song the song Everybody Hurts by REM along with Leona Lewis, Rod Stewart, Mariah Carey, Cheryl Cole, Mika, Michael Buble, Joe McElderry, Miley Cyrus, James Blunt, Robbie Williams, Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Jon Bon Jovi, James Morrison, Alexandra Burke, Aston Merrygold, Marvin Humes, Shane Filan, Mark Feehily and Kylie Minogue added.
Honors and Awards
2012 Susan Boyle was awarded an honorary Doctor of the Edinburgh Queen Margaret University, where she had once earned a degree in nursing.