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Susan Boyle, before Britain's got talent fame SINGS "Killing me Softly" for a privately funded recording! Susan boyle should have sang this for her second audition.
Telegraph.co.uk has come into possession of a recording that Susan Boyle made in 1999 of the 1973 hit song Killing Me Softly by Roberta Flack. It seems Ms. Boyle made the recording at her own expense to attempt to get on various television and radio talent shows, all of which she was not accepted to. At the time she made the recording she told her friends that she had spent all of her savings on recording thsi song and an earlier demo version of what would become her Cry Me A River release on a charity CD.
The youngest of nine children, Boyle suffered oxygen deprivation during birth, resulting in learning disabilities. "I come from a musical family," she says. "It has always been there, from my father down. Singing is always something I have done. It has been in my blood since I was 12 and took part in school productions and shows."
She attended Edinburgh Acting School and has appeared in the Edinburgh Fringe. She recorded a charity CD of Cry Me a River in 1999, of which 1,000 copies were pressed. She also had a previous brush with television, appearing on Michael Barrymore's ITV show My Kind of People, but unlike others - such as Charlotte Church, who were plucked to stardom after appearances on other shows - nobody came knocking for Boyle.
"I did My Kind of People for fun," she says. "I also sang locally but things had quietened down."
Boyle decided to audition for Britain's Got Talent after taking some time away from singing to care for her mother, who died in 2007 aged 91. Paul Potts, the mobile-phone salesman who won the first series of Britain's Got Talent and went on to become a global opera star, was her inspiration.
"I had a bit of a rest after my mum died, but I had seen Britain's Got Talent on TV and thought I would have a go," she says. "Paul Potts was really good. He was an inspiration to a lot of people and I thought I would take my chances."
no soul and well boring
DrMadvillain 1 year ago
If you would like to see, Susan Boyle sing, "Cry me a river in Dub Stylee", just click on my name (in blue above left) and you will find the video. With this track she would have won the competition.
Regards - Dubnoid
Dubnoid 2 years ago
I think she did great! I love this better than how she did in the semi's and final of BGT.
hoaries 2 years ago
doesnt sound as good
Rich87 2 years ago