She shot to fame on Britain's Got Talent back in 2009 when she blew the judges and the audience away with her rendition of I Dreamed A Dream.
And Susan Boyle returned to the stage that launched her career as she made an emotional comeback to the ITV talent show in scenes set to air on Saturday night to mark the 10 year anniversary of her first audition.
The Scottish singer, 58, looked sensational in a sequinned dress and glittering jewellery - a far cry from the somewhat more dowdy figure she cut during her very first time on the show.
Amid the Wild Horses hitmaker's standing ovation, judge Simon Cowell made his way onto stage to comfort her.
Putting a comforting arm around her, he said: 'Still got the magic, Susan, haven’t you.' He added: 'Thank you for coming back.'
Susan Boyle, back then an unassuming, unemployed singer from Scotland, took to the stage for the first time in 2009 and has never looked back.
Singing an extraordinary rendition of “I Dreamed A Dream” on Britain’s Got Talent, Susan changed lives.
She didn’t win the series, but she won the hearts of the nation overnight. She has since toured the United Kingdom and North America, has recorded and released seven studio albums, and has a reported net worth of approximately US$28 million. And on April 13, 2019, 10 years after her first performance, Susan stepped back onto the Britain’s Got Talent stage for an almighty anniversary comeback.
What did she sing? Well, surely that’s a no-brainer! Susan sang the same moving number that amassed her devoted following many years ago, and the crowd went wild.
Scottish songstress Susan Boyle has opened up about her Asperger syndrome and revealed her parents never learned the truth about her condition as they died before she was properly diagnosed.
Susan learned she had Asperger’s in 2012, a year before she went public with her diagnosis, and told People this week that her parents went to their graves believing she had brain damage rather than the high-functioning form of autism.
The Britain’s Got Talent runner-up said her diagnosis was a relief because it finally allowed her to make sense of her life-long anxiety and struggle to connect and communicate with people.
“It’s not crippling — it was an adjustment but also a relief. Being born in 1961, we didn’t have the medical advances we do now, so my parents were told I was brain damaged at birth,” she told the magazine.
She’s delivered some of the most powerful performances the entertainment world has ever seen and Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle has done it again.
The 58-year-old is set to mark a decade since her original audition on the popular reality show by releasing a new album next week. In the meantime, she’s treated fans to a haunting rendition of ‘Stand by Me’.
The iconic track – which will feature on Susan’s new album Ten – was originally released by Ben E. King in the ‘60s and has been covered by everyone from John Lennon to Seal and Tracy Chapman since.
Susan Boyle appeared on stage at the live final of Britain’s Got Talent 2019, gave a bit of a pitchy performance with duet partner Michael Ball – and the Internet, predictably, was not kind to them.
Their rendition of ‘A Million Dreams’, from 2017’s box office hit The Greatest Showman, left viewers blaming Ball for ‘ruining’ Boyle’s performance.
One Twitter user said: “They should have just let SuBo sing on her own. He’s butchering this song”, while another claimed Boyle “was doing OK until [Ball] joined in.”
