Posted on 04/14/2009 12:17:11 AM PDT by Wil H
Two years ago, Paul Potts, a chubby mobile phone salesman, wowed the British TV public with his performance of Puccini's "Nessum Dorma" to win "Brtiain's Got Talent", The British equivalent to "America's Got Talent".
While good, I didn't think Potts to be that fantastic.
However last weekend, the third season of "Britain's Got Talent" opened and another diamond in the rough emerged.
This one is quite fantastic.
Susan Boyle, a frumpy looking 47 year old Scottish spinster, who lives with her cat "Pebbles" and admits she's never been kissed, came out on stage and told the audience she wanted to be a professional singer but had never had the chance.
She wanted to be like Elaine Paige, she said, and the crowd, and judges, sniggered....
Then she did this ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY&feature=related ^
whoa... Simon got pawned!! rofl
Wow!! Her singing was unbelievably awesome! Pierce said it best...”stunning”!
It brought a huge smile to my face almost the entire time after she started singing ~ you could just see her confidence building as she went on. And to see how happy & excited she was at the comments from the judges afterwords was just absolutely great to see!
You’re right ~ very well worth watching!
A tremendously uplifting moment to see in a world gone largely mad.
What a remarkable woman. Such a gift.
Wow. Just goes to show, don’t judge a book by its cover.
Watch how Simon’s eyebrows perk up.
OK I’ll admit it. I cried.
Dare I hope that she starts a new trend where pure talent is appreciated more than over-produced hootchies?
Incredible! I bet she’ll get some marriage proposals now! :-)
This story gave my wife and me such a great feeling; even made my wife shed a few tears. What a great story. I pray that she becomes a Professional singer and that she gets signed to a contract. God Bless her.
Yes, and the son with the family group Good Evan is fantastic. Quite a voice this young man has.
I first saw this video Saturday night, so it’s only been up a little over 48 hours. This particular link shows 2,485,245 and if you add up the other videos of the same performance that have been posted on youtube you can add at least another 1/2 mil. Amazing amount of hits for that short of a period of time.
Nice!
I hope this was her break and she gets to sing more too, but you know watching her, I don’t think anything further really matters...to her. The way she started to walk off after she finished singing made me think she had achieved her dream by singing there in front of that audience and she was fullfilled.
Susan, love, you sing better than Elaine Page.
An understatement, if ever there was one.
Tremendous.
Damn, the lady HAS talent - no question about it.
I still can’t watch that video without tearing up.
She is too cute and you just want to be so happy for her!
We can dream the dream (yes, a play on her song) can’t we?
You are so right! She had done what she always wanted, to sing in front of a large audience.
Remarkable voice and talent!
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