Talent show judges blown away by 47 year old

This lady brought a tear to my eye as she wowed judges and the audience with her performance:

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Use the link rather than the arrow.

I got the link fixed. It is really worth watching.

What an inspiration! Forget fashion, forget appearances. Just open your mouth and sing lady.

I've sat through her song three times now. She has a wonderful voice. I've got a feeling we'll see a lot more of Susan Boyle.

Absolute complete transfixing beauty that conquered an ugly crowd.

Juan: Wow thanks for putting that up to watch and hear that wonderful talent!

I gotta go wipe my eyes and blow my nose now.... she brought out more than sadness ... more like pure unadulaterated beautiful emotion.... all good!

Sounds like she's been professionally trained with her ability to center right on the note and hold it there in spite of a huge vibrato (plus a few nerves no doubt).

First time I've seen Simon Cowell in rapture... but he does know talent that old curmudgeon.

She was fantastic - I hope she will be getting lots of recording offers so we can collect her
voice to listen to any time we wish....

Curio

I don't think I've ever seen the audience, and the judging panel quite as transformed as they were when Ms Boyle began to sing. A friend told me about this talent show and her performance. It was a fairly easy job to hunt it down on the net

oh thank you so much for posting that link Juan! I got a youtube link from someone for this last night, but there seemed to be no way I could post it as the embedding was disabled.

Isn't she just an amazing testament to breaking through the limits imposed upon us by others!!!

Our world can be so pathetically superficial... let's hope for more wake up calls...

The look on Simon's normally smug face was a Kodak moment to be sure. What a surprise!

I've already watched this a few times. Incredible.

Hi Karen
The first link I found had the same problem. I mucked around for a while and eventually found another link. I've listened to it about four times now...

This could be a remake of the 2007 season with Paul Potts.

Wow!!! 8o
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Another incredible singer from that show. Susan and Paul should hook up.

Good day Juan, what a nice moment Susan Boyle found here self in, so very true "never judge a book by its cover".......

Very true. We will definitely hear more from Susan Boyle.

Amazing talent...singing from her heart...giving it her all....good for her!!! What a delight!

The FIRST and ONLY real talent (with the possible exception of Carrie Underwood) on this hollow and superficial show with hollow and superficial judges for hollow and superficial "fans".

Here is another amazing performance from that show:

Did you see the face of Simon Cowell BEFORE Susan Boyle sang?

Did you see it AFTER?

Any doubt that this guy, his fellow panelists and the entire show is a fraud?

They are dumbfounded when a REAL talent hits them in the face.

I think that is a little harsh. That panel show has uncovered some pretty fair talent. Susan Boyle this year. Potts last year. But let's face it. It is show business. The entire audience had a different face after Susan Boyle sang than they did before. When I first saw her I have to admit that I was a bit skeptical but when she sang, the lady made a believer out of me.

Yes,indeed! The lady is a great find I am often amazed when upon hearing some decent song on my radio, the singer is one of the Talent Show winners.Carrie and Kelly are two of them.

Actually, Paul Potts was a 2007 find. 2008 winner was a 14 year old break dancer. I think they have their 2009 winner already.

There's an interesting discussion in your question. Maybe even fundemental.

Very true
I admit to being not a little skeptical and I was imposing artificial limits that were purely in my own mind and I was a bit embarrassed for her. Once she began to sing, however, my skepticism went out the window.

This poor woman looked after her mother all her life and had put her own ambitions on hold until the mother died. I hope with her new-found fame she can make a good life for herself. I understand that the top prize on that show is a hundred thousand pounds....That should give her a start.

You know, I have to admit I was as skeptical as the rest of them. Once she began to sing, my response quickly shifted to amazement, then to humbled by the sheer force of her talent… then to being ashamed of myself for the judgments (limits) I'd also placed upon her.

I remember thinking what a smug pr!ck Simon looked like as he openly mocked her when she swivelled those 47 year old hips on stage before she sang…. and yes, maybe I was even a bit embarrassed for her when she did that… but I also remember hoping she could pull off a passable rendition of something to at least give the panel less to mock once she was done … so when that amazing song spilled out of her …. I noticed my own amazement, and I realized I was just as susceptible to pass judgment as anyone else… else why would I have been so shocked to hear such an incredible singing voice come out of her?

My response reminded me that I can stand to look first at myself before I point at anyone else for whatever limits or judgements they place upon others. Often times it's those of us who think we're above such things that need to look within the most.

Yes Simon did look like a smug prick when he mocked her and cast his eyes either to the ceiling or to the other judges. Did he have to ask her age?
Susan had the voice and the talent but before she sang I found myself wishing that somehow she could have got a bit of a make over and clothing that didn't shout "frumpy" to the rafters. When she did start to sing, there was beauty and honesty about it that is rare these days and it cut through all the seeming disrespect that was coming from the judges and out of that noisy crowd. I really hope she does well.

LONDON - A 47-year-old Scottish charity volunteer has become an unlikely international media sensation after a stunning talent show performance, amid reports she is set to cash in with a quick record deal.
By Thursday, a video clip of Susan Boyle's singing debut on the "Britain's Got Talent" television show last weekend had been viewed by over 12 million people on YouTube, with the numbers rising fast.

U.S. actress Demi Moore was apparently moved to tears by the clip, while the story has been picked up around the world, with U.S., Australian and other broadcasters reportedly queuing up for interviews.
"Susan has clearly wowed the audience, the judges and the world with a truly fantastic performance," said Tom Kerr, leader of West Lothian council in Scotland where Boyle lives alone with a cat called Pebbles.
The West Lothian Courier, her local paper, added that she was "doing what the Beatles did in the 60s" — that is, taking the United States by storm, as the Fab Four did four decades ago.
And, while press coverage in Britain was relatively muted, media in the United States are lapping up the story.
Global news channel CNN said it had been flooded with messages about Boyle, who was filmed tucking into a sandwich shortly before taking to the stage.
The San Francisco Chronicle, under the headline "Just Who Is The Singer Susan Boyle?" noted that "Unless you live under a rock, you know about the Scottish woman who has taken the industrialized world by storm."
"U.K. talent show stunned by Scottish virgin Susan Boyle," ran Australia's Herald Sun newspaper.
In Britain coverage was less high profile — perhaps because "Britain's Got Talent" airs on private broadcaster ITV and so the story is not highlighted by rival channels.
In the clip, the unglamorous-looking Boyle drew laughter from the audience when she walked on stage, saying she dreamed of emulating West End star Elaine Page.
When she began to sing, however, the panel of three judges led by music guru Simon Cowell was visibly shocked, and the audience in Glasgow rose to its feet, as her voiced soared through "I Dreamed A Dream" from "Les Miserables."
Cowell is already lining up a record deal for her, Britain's Press Association reported, while versions of the Les Miserables song she sang entered the midweek singles chart here and the iTunes chart.
U.S. actress Moore posted the comment "It made me teary" on her Twitter page, after viewing the clip.
Boyle's success — she is now favourite to win the British talent show — has drawn comparisons with Paul Potts, an opera-singing mobile phone salesman who won in 2007. Potts went on to have number one albums in 15 countries.
Perhaps inevitably, the story — in which comment on Boyle's appearance has been prominent — triggered media soul-searching. The following paragraph bothers the hell out of me:

"Is Susan Boyle ugly? Or are we?" wrote Tanya Gold in Britain's Guardian newspaper.
"On Saturday night she stood on the stage . . . small and rather chubby, with a squashed face, unruly teeth and unkempt hair.

"Why are we so shocked when 'ugly' women can do things, rather than sitting at home weeping and wishing they were somebody else?
"Men are allowed to be ugly and talented," she wrote, saying businessman Alan Sugar — who stars in reality TV show "The Apprentice" — looks "like a burst bag of flour," while chef "Gordon Ramsay has a dried-up riverbed for a face."
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