Susan Boyle was a singer act from America's Got Talent: The Champions. She was eliminated in the Finals.
Background[]
Susan Boyle is a Scottish singer who came to international attention when she appeared as a contestant on the TV programme Britain's Got Talent on 11 April 2009, singing "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables.
Her first album, I Dreamed a Dream, was released in November 2009 and became the UK's best-selling debut album of all time, beating the previous record held by Spirit by Leona Lewis. I Dreamed a Dream set a record for biggest first week sales by a debut album, according to the Official Chart Company in the United Kingdom. Topping the Billboard 200 for six weeks, it was the second best-selling album of 2009 in the US. In her first year of fame, Boyle made £5 million (£6.2 million today) with the release of I Dreamed a Dream and its lead-off singles, "I Dreamed a Dream" and "Wild Horses". The success was continued with her second album, The Gift (2010), where she became only the third act ever to top both the UK and US album charts twice in the same year, and was followed by Boyle's third album, Someone to Watch Over Me (debuted at #1 on UK charts, #4 on US charts), released on 31 October 2011. Boyle subsequently released her fourth album Standing Ovation: The Greatest Songs from the Stage (reached #7 in UK, #12 in US) in 2012, her fifth album Home for Christmas (fifth consecutive top ten on UK charts) in 2013, and her sixth album Hope (sixth consecutive top twenty on UK and US charts) in 2014.
On 12 May 2012, Boyle returned to Britain's Got Talent to perform as a guest in the final, singing "You'll See". The following day, she performed at Windsor Castle for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Pageant singing "Mull of Kintyre". Having performed "I Know Him So Well" in a duet with one of her idols Elaine Paige in London in December 2009, Boyle performed with her other musical idol Donny Osmond in Las Vegas in November 2012, singing "This is the Moment", a duet from her album Standing Ovation: The Greatest Songs From the Stage.[ Boyle's net worth was estimated at £22 million in April 2012. In the same year, Boyle was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, making her diagnosis public in 2013. She stated that she felt 'relieved and a bit more relaxed' about herself, after having previously been assumed to have brain damage. She is known for supporting various charitable causes, and has appeared on the UK charity telethons BBC Children in Need and Comic Relief. As of 2013, she had sold over 19 million albums worldwide and received two Grammy Awards nominations. On 23 July, Boyle performed "Mull of Kintyre" at the Opening Ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in front of the Queen. [1]
The Champions Preliminary[]
Before the performance as she was walking on stage, the audience and the four judges gave her a standing ovation before she even got up to the mic! Susan Boyle's Preliminary performance in Episode TC01 consisted of singing her rendition of "Wild Horses". Howie Mandel, Mel B, Heidi Klum, and Simon Cowell all gave her standing ovations. Impressed with her performance, Mel B hit the Golden Buzzer, sending Susan straight into the Finals.
The Champions Final[]
Susan Boyle's Finals performance in Episode TC06 consisted of singing "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables. Howie Mandel , Mel B , Heidi Klum and Simon Cowell all gave her standing ovations.
The Champions Finale[]
In Episode TC07, the superfans did not give Susan enough votes to enter the Top 5, eliminating her from the competition along with Jon Dorenbos instead of Darci Lynne.
After the Show[]
Susan Boyle returned to perform at the start of the first episode of the auditions in Series 13; after her performance, Simon came onto the stage and congratulated her. Backstage, Ant and Dec remarked that it had been a decade since her audition, to which she responded 'and you haven't changed a bit'. Susan was also set to appear in Britain's Got Talent: The Champions, and performed again as a guest performer at the final of Series 13 of Britain's Got Talent, with the song a million dreams with Michael Ball, a rendition of the song From The Greatest Showman originally released in late 2019. At this point she confirmed that she was set to appear on BGT: The Champions, yet pulled out for reasons unknown thus withdrawing before it began, resulting in Jai McDowall replacing her in the contest.
She returned to AGT in Episode 1414 as a guest performer, singing "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical Les Misérables.
In December 2020 she was initially lined up to perform upon the Britain's Got Talent: Christmas Spectacular, however could not appear in order to do so as her area in Scotland was in Tier 4 COVID-19 Restrictions at the time of filming.
In June 2023 Susan returned to Britain's Got Talent to perform with the West End cast of Les Miserables during the Series 16 finale a year after recovering from a stroke. [2]
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