The demo consisted of her versions of "Cry Me a River" and " Killing Me Softly with His Song" the songs were uploaded to the Internet after her BGT audition. She used all her savings to pay for a professionally cut demo, copies of which she later sent to record companies, radio talent competitions, local and national TV. In 1998, Boyle recorded three tracks-" Cry Me a River", "Killing Me Softly", and " Don't Cry for Me Argentina"-at Heartbeat Studio, Midlothian. In 1995, she auditioned for Michael Barrymore's My Kind of People. She also long participated in her parish church's pilgrimages to the Knock Shrine, County Mayo, Ireland, and sang there at the Marian basilica. She attended Edinburgh Acting School and took part in the Edinburgh Fringe. Early musical training and careerīoyle took singing lessons from vocal coach Fred O'Neil. Īfter leaving school with few qualifications, Boyle took part in government training programmes, and performed at local venues. However, she was told in 2012–13 that she had been misdiagnosed and is on the Autism spectrum with an IQ "above average". She was raised thinking that she had been briefly deprived of oxygen during a difficult birth resulting in a learning disability. Born when her mother was 45 years old, Boyle was the youngest of four brothers and five sisters. Both her parents were born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, but also have family links to County Donegal in Ireland. Her father, Patrick Boyle, was a miner and veteran of the Second World War who also worked as a singer at the Bishop's Blaize her mother Bridget was a shorthand typist.
To date, Boyle has released eight albums, including two Christmas releases, Home For Christmas and A Wonderful World.
On 23 July 2014, she performed "Mull of Kintyre" at the Opening Ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in front of the Queen. As of 2013, Boyle had sold over 19 million albums worldwide and received two Grammy Awards nominations. She is known for supporting various charitable causes, and has appeared on the UK charity telethons BBC Children in Need and Comic Relief. 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 fourth album. The following day, she performed at Windsor Castle for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Pageant singing " Mull of Kintyre". On, Boyle returned to Britain's Got Talent to perform as a guest in the final, singing " You'll See". She subsequently released the studio albums Standing Ovation: The Greatest Songs from the Stage (2012), Home for Christmas (2013), Hope (2014), A Wonderful World (2016), and Ten (2019).
The success continued with her second studio 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 studio album, Someone to Watch Over Me (2011). In her first year of fame, Boyle made £5 million (£7.1 million today) with the release of I Dreamed a Dream and its lead-off singles, " I Dreamed a Dream" and " Wild Horses".
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She rose to fame in 2009 after appearing as a contestant on the third series of Britain's Got Talent, singing " I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables.īoyle's debut studio album, I Dreamed a Dream, was released in November 2009 it became the UK's best-selling debut album of all time, beating the previous record held by Spirit by Leona Lewis, and set a record for first-week sales by a debut album, according to the Official Charts Company. Susan Magdalane Boyle (born 1 April 1961) is a Scottish singer.