She’s all over the internet with 7 new websites dedicated just for her in the span of only 5 days of exposure on youtube. Susan Boyle is such a hit that even Catholic news picked her story up. Here is the content of the EWTN breaking news about her:
Parish Choir Singer Becomes Overnight Sensation
London, England, Apr 17, 2009 (CNA).- A middle-aged Scottish woman who sang in her Catholic parish’s choir for decades has become an internet sensation after a stunning performance on a British talent show. Susan Boyle, 47, appeared the show Britain’s Got Talent before judges and a live audience skeptical of her ambition, her age and her plain appearance.
The audience laughed derisively when she said she wanted to follow the example of West End star singer Elaine Paige.
However, Boyle’s rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” from the musical Les Miserables won over the crowd and the judges.
Her performance was broadcast on April 11, the day before Easter. A video of her performance posted on YouTube on the same day had received more than 13 million views as of Thursday afternoon.
Boyle, reportedly a devoted Catholic from Blackburn in West Lothian, was born with a learning disability but dreamed of becoming a professional singer, the Times Online says.
She credits her mother for advancing her musical education.
“I was always musical – yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower,” she told Deadline Scotland.
“It was my mum who got me into singing properly – she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented.
“She was the one that pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me,” she added, saying it was hard to believe her success.
Boyle limited her singing to church choir and Karaoke in order to care for her aging mother, the Times says. She stopped singing after her mother died two years ago.
“I thought I would take a break – it seemed appropriate,” she told the Times.
Boyle, one of eight siblings, has never married and claims she has never been kissed.
Discussing the Britain’s Got Talent audience’s initial hostility, she said “Modern society is too quick to judge people on their appearances.”
“There is not much you can do about it; it is the way they think; it is the way they are. But maybe this could teach them a lesson, or set an example.”
According to the Washington Post, Boyle received a standing ovation at her parish’s Easter Sunday Mass.
“We let out a wee bit of a cheer for her. We are quite proud of her,” Boyle’s parish priest, the Rev. Ryszard Holuka, said in a telephone interview. He described Boyle as a “quiet soul.”
“At gatherings and anniversary parties, she’d stand up and give a song,” he said. “She never flaunted her voice; this is the first time it’s been publicly recognized.”

ilang beses ko na yata ito pinanood, kahit na walang sound yung computer ko. hehehe… I knew the lyrics by heart and i just thought of singing along. “I Dreamed A Dream” is a very sad song of a a forgotten and world-weary woman. but with Boyle singing it and the audience’s reactions, life hasn’t killed the dream she dreamed, after all.
happy easter, bluep. I still hasn’t touched my blog. hehe… parang ayoko muna ulit.ü
You should watch it with sounds. I told you, earphones are not that expensive. All computers have a plug for earphones at the back of the CPU (usually the blue one). Haha you are missing a lot. By the time you watch the videos again, they would have long been deleted from you tube.
Actually I’m not Les Miserables literate. I haven’t even watched miss saigon. Pang sound of music lang ako. haha pero I got really interested with that song that I downloaded the original, read the history of the song, watch a clip of the actual performance on broadway on youtube, and read more about les miserables. You see what I had to go through haha. eto napapala ng di mahilig sa broadway, late bloomer haha.
anyhow the song is very lonely, I heard the orginal rendition by Patti Lupone, it was avery melancholic song. Pero when Susan sang it, og boy its full of hope. to think the song was intended to convey desperation diba by Fantine ba yun.
You should really get an earphone haha now na.
BTW, about your blog, bakit? ano nangyari?
Yah…. When I heard the news in Yahoo a couple of days ago… I immediately posted a bulletin in my friendster, SUSAN BOYLE -A NEW PHENOMENAL BEING IN YOUTUBE so that my friends could watch the link that I provided from youtube. Like the millions, I was really impressed and almost in tears when I watched her singing at BGT. It is really true… it is not too late to dream.
and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 1 Corinthians 12:23
SUSAN BOYLE… wow! Amazing performance! You have such an angelic voice… You definitely touched the people’s heart… Your simplicity and faith in God brought you to where you are now… It’s true that God knows what’s best for us IN HIS TIME.. To God be the glory!! More blessings!