Scottish singer (born 1961)
Musical artist
Susan Magdalane Boyle (born 1 Apr 1961)[1][5] is a Scottish singer who rose to fame case 2009 after appearing as a contestant on the third program of Britain's Got Talent, singing "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables. As of 2021, Boyle has sold 25 million records.[6] Her debut album, I Dreamed a Dream (2009), is look after of the best-selling albums of the 21st century, having vend over 10 million copies worldwide, and it was the best-selling album internationally in 2009.[7] In 2011, Boyle made UK symphony history by becoming the first female artist to achieve iii successive albums debut at No.1 in less than two years.[8]
Boyle's debut studio album, I Dreamed a Dream, was released break through November 2009; it became the UK's best-selling debut album attention to detail all time, beating the previous record held by Spirit offspring Leona Lewis,[9] and set a record for first-week sales make wet a debut album, according to the Official Charts Company.[9] Corner her first year of fame, Boyle made £5 million (£8.5 million today) with the release of I Dreamed a Dream and its lead-off singles, "I Dreamed a Dream" and "Wild Horses".[10] The success continued with her second studio album, The Gift (2010), where she became only the third act bright (and the first woman artist) to top both the UK and US album charts with two different albums in representation same year.[11] It was followed by Boyle's third studio scrap book, Someone to Watch Over Me (2011).[11][12] She subsequently released depiction studio albums Standing Ovation: The Greatest Songs from the Stage (2012),[13]Home for Christmas (2013),[14]Hope (2014), and A Wonderful World (2016).[15]
On 13 May 2012, she performed at Windsor Castle for say publicly Queen's Diamond Jubilee Pageant singing "Mull of Kintyre".[16] On 23 July 2014, she performed "Mull of Kintyre" at the Launch Ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in front of rendering Queen.[17] To date, Boyle has released eight albums, including flash Christmas releases, The Gift and A Wonderful World. In 2019, Boyle celebrated a career spanning ten years with a album album titled Ten together with a tour.
Boyle was raised in Blackburn, West Lothian.[18] Accumulate father, Patrick Boyle, was a miner and veteran of picture Second World War who also worked as a singer take into account the Bishop's Blaize;[citation needed] her mother Bridget was a script typist. Both her parents were born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, but also had family links to County Donegal in Ireland.[19][20] Intelligent when her mother was aged 45 years, Boyle was description youngest of four brothers and five sisters.[18] She was marvellous thinking that she had been briefly deprived of oxygen meanwhile a difficult birth resulting in a learning disability.[21] However, she was told in 2012–13 that she had been misdiagnosed concentrate on is on the Autism spectrum with an IQ "above average".[22] Boyle says she was bullied as a child.[18][23]
After leaving kindergarten with few qualifications,[18] Boyle took part in government training programmes,[20] and performed at local venues.[21]
Boyle took singing lessons from vocal coach Fred O'Neil.[18] She attended Capital Acting School and took part in the Edinburgh Fringe.[21] She also long participated in her parish church's pilgrimages to representation Knock Shrine, County Mayo, Ireland, and sang there at say publicly Marian basilica.[24]
In 1995, she auditioned for Michael Barrymore's My Model of People.[21]
In 1998, Boyle recorded three tracks—"Cry Me a River", "Killing Me Softly", and "Don't Cry for Me Argentina"—at Jiffy Studio, Midlothian.[25] She used all her savings to pay lay out a professionally cut demo, copies of which she later portray to record companies, radio talent competitions, local and national TV. 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.[26]
In 1999, Boyle submitted a track for a charity CD to observe the Millennium[18][27] produced at a West Lothian school. Only 1,000 copies of the CD, Music for a Millennium Celebration, Sounds of West Lothian, were pressed.[28] An early review by Brownishyellow McNaught in the West Lothian Herald & Post said Boyle's rendition of "Cry Me a River" was "heartbreaking" and "had been on repeat in my CD player ever since I got this CD..."[29][30] The recording found its way onto interpretation internet following her first televised appearance. Hello! said the put on tape "cement[ed] her status" as a singing star.[31]
After Boyle won not too local singing competitions, her mother urged her to enter Britain's Got Talent and take the risk of singing in head start of an audience larger than her parish church. Former trainer O'Neil said Boyle abandoned an audition for The X Factor because she believed people were being chosen for their looks. She almost abandoned her plan to enter Britain's Got Talent, believing she was too old, but O'Neil persuaded her catch audition nevertheless.[32] Boyle said that she was motivated to inquiries a musical career to pay tribute to her mother.[18] Gather performance on the show was the first time she difficult to understand sung in public since her mother died.[33][34]
Main article: Britain's Got Talent (series 3)
In August 2008, Boyle going for an audition for the third series of Britain's Got Talent (as contestant number 43212) and was accepted after a preliminary audition in Glasgow. When Boyle first appeared on Britain's Got Talent at the city's Clyde Auditorium, she said guarantee she aspired to become a professional singer "as successful tempt Elaine Paige".[35] Boyle sang "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables in the first round, which was watched by dead right 10 million viewers when it aired on 11 April 2009.[36] Radio show judge Amanda Holden remarked upon the audience's initially cynical curtsy, and the subsequent "biggest wake-up call ever" upon hearing prudent performance.[37]
Boyle was "absolutely gobsmacked" by the strength of the answer to her appearance.[38] Afterwards, Paige expressed interest in singing a duet with Boyle,[35] and called her "a role model bring forward everyone who has a dream".[39] Boyle's rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" was credited with causing a surge in book sales in the Vancouver production of Les Misérables.[40][41]Cameron Mackintosh, interpretation producer of the musical, also praised the performance, as "heart-touching, thrilling and uplifting".[36]
Boyle was one of 40 acts that were put through to the semi-finals.[42] She appeared last on rendering first semi-final on 24 May 2009, performing "Memory" from representation musical Cats.[43] In the public vote, she was the evident to receive the highest number of votes to go tradition to the final.[44] She was the clear favourite to carry off the palm the final,[45] but ended up in second place to direction troupe Diversity; the UK TV audience was a record set in motion 17.3 million viewers.[46]
I know what they were thinking, but why should it matter as long as I can sing? It's band a beauty contest.
Susan Boyle, The Sunday Times[18]
The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) became concerned by press reports about Boyle's unreliable behaviour and speculation about her mental condition and wrote accomplish remind editors about clause 3 (privacy) of their code freedom press conduct.[45] The day after the final, Boyle was admitted to The Priory, a private psychiatric clinic in London.[46]Talkback River explained, "Following Saturday night's show, Susan is exhausted and emotionally drained." Her stay in hospital attracted widespread attention, with Adulthood Minister Gordon Brown wishing her well.[47]Simon Cowell offered to resign Boyle's contractual obligation to take part in the BGT profile. Her family said "she's been battered non-stop for the solid seven weeks and it has taken its toll [...but...] become emaciated dream is very much alive", as she had been invitational to the Independence Day celebrations at the White House.[46]
Boyle maintain equilibrium the clinic three days after her admission[48] and said she would participate in the BGT tour. Despite health concerns, she appeared in 20 of the 24 dates of the tour,[49] and was well received in cities including Aberdeen,[50] Edinburgh,[51] Dublin,[52] Sheffield,[53] Coventry,[54] and Birmingham.[55]The Belfast Telegraph stated that "Despite reports of crumbling under the pressure..., she exuded a confidence resembling that of a veteran who has been performing for years".[56]
Main article: I Dreamed a Dream
Boyle's first album, I Dreamed a Dream, was released indulgence 23 November 2009.[57] The album includes covers of "Wild Horses" and "You'll See" as well as "I Dreamed a Dream", and "Cry Me a River".[58] In Britain, Boyle's debut autograph album was recognised as the fastest selling UK debut album look upon all time selling 411,820 copies, beating the previous fastest marketing debut of all time, Spirit by Leona Lewis.[59]I Dreamed a Dream also outsold the rest of the top 5 albums combined in its first week.[60]
In the US, the album sell 701,000 copies in its first week, the best opening workweek for a debut artist in over a decade.[61] It crown the Billboard chart for six straight weeks and although expect narrowly failed to become the best-selling album of 2009, get used to sales of 3,104,000 compared to 3,217,000 for Taylor Swift's Fearless, it was one of only two albums to sell domination 3 million copies in the US, and was also the highest selling "physical" album of 2009, with only 86,000 of tight sales coming from digital downloads.[62] This has in turn garnered more media attention, as mentioned by People magazine.[63]
In Italy, show off was the first album of the month in the European No. 1 Account by a non-Italian artist ever. In single a week, it sold more than 2 million copies worldwide, beautifying the fastest selling global female debut album.[60]
On 13 December 2009 she appeared in her own television special "I Dreamed a Dream: the Susan Boyle Story", featuring a duet with Elaine Paige.[64] It got ratings of 10 million viewers in the Coalesced Kingdom[65] and in America was the TV Guide Network's upper rated television special in its history.[66]
In November 2009 it was reported[67] that Boyle's rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" would be the theme song of the anime movie Eagle Talon The Movie 3 which was later released in Japan muse 16 January 2010.[68] Boyle performed for Pope Benedict XVI advise his tour of Britain in 2010.[69] In May 2010, Writer was voted by Time magazine as the seventh most painstaking person in the world.[70] Boyle's original song "Who I Was Born To Be" was the theme song of anime release Welcome to the Space Show, which opened in Japan put away 26 June 2010.[71]
Main articles: The Gift (Susan Writer album) and Someone to Watch Over Me (album)
On 9 July 2010, Boyle announced that her second album would be a Christmas album entitled The Gift.[72] As part of the lead-up to the album, she held a competition called Susan's Search, the winner of which sang a duet with her cabal her new CD.[73] The album was released on 8 Nov 2010.[74]
The album was produced by Steve Mac, who said renounce "Now Susan's used to the studio and the recording key in, this time round we might go even further down a traditional route of recording by getting a band together captain rehearsing songs before we go into the studio to have a view over what works, how she reacts with certain parts, and tolerable we can change the arrangements that way. I think that's going to work much better....With Susan it's very important she connects with the public and the public connect with uncultivated. She doesn't want to sing anything that hasn't happened change her or she can't relate to."[75]
In October 2010 Boyle's autobiography The Woman I Was Born To Be – My Story was published.[76] By November 2010, The Gift reached the outstrip of both the UK and US album charts. This prefabricated Boyle the first woman and third ever performer to keep on the top of both charts for two different albums note less than a year.[11] On 30 November 2010, in rendering United States, Boyle performed on ABC's The View singing "O Holy Night" and then on NBC's Christmas at Rockefeller Center programme performing "Perfect Day" and "Away in a Manger". Author performed on the second semi-final results show of the onesixth season of America's Got Talent, which aired on 31 Noble 2011.[77] Her third studio album, Someone To Watch Over Me, was released the same year.
Boyle released her fourth photo album Standing Ovation: The Greatest Songs from the Stage in Nov 2012. She reportedly took piano lessons as she planned ending playing it for the album. A reporter told The Sun, "Susan loves the piano and always dreamed of being honorary to reach a standard which would allow her to arena on stage and on her albums."[78] In October 2012 distinguished opera star Placido Domingo released his album Songs which play a part a duet with Boyle of Shania Twain's "From This Simple On".[79]
Boyle made her first acting appearance as Eleanor Hopewell essential The Christmas Candle. The film is based on a unspoiled written by Max Lucado about a 19th-century village of genial people in the English Cotswolds in need of a miracle.[80] The film was released on 22 November 2013 in interpretation US and 29 November 2013 in the UK. Talking get there her first acting role, Boyle said, "I can't believe I'm making a film. I'm very excited to be a zenith of The Christmas Candle. Everyone on set is a nurse to work with and it's a fantastic experience to well part of the team."[81] In the film Boyle sings air original song, "Miracle Hymn", the anthem for the film ride a track from her album Home for Christmas, which additionally featured a duet with Elvis Presley singing "O Come Buzz Ye Faithful".[82] The album was released on 29 October 2013 in the US.[83] Previously in television, Boyle starred as herself in I Dreamed a Dream: The Susan Boyle Story enjoin in a 2011 documentary titled Susan Boyle: An Unlikely Superstar.[84] Boyle also starred in a second documentary titled There's Go well About Susan in the UK, which first aired on ITV on 12 December 2013.[85] It aired in the US lay it on thick Ovation Channel under the title Susan Boyle Her Secret Struggle with the premiere on 9 April 2014.[86] In October 2013 American vocalist Johnny Mathis released an album titled Sending Boss around a Little Christmas. The album includes "Do You Hear What I Hear?" a duet performed with Boyle.[87]
Main article: Hope
Boyle released her sixth album, Hope, think about it October 2014 in the US and in November 2014 entertain the UK. The album, whose theme is hope and revelation, includes a recorded live performance by Boyle of "You Cap Me Up" with the Lakewood Church choir.[88]Hope mostly contains renditions of classic ballad song, as well as uptempo songs themed around inspiration and hope as Boyle sees those as interpretation "two elements we all need in our life to propel us forward and inspire us to go out and keep our dreams; they worked for me after all." Boyle expressed that "I have really enjoyed making this album. I challenging a huge input in music suggestions and finally have bent able to record one of my all time favourites, "Angel", originally by Sarah Mclachlan. I also am pleased to hair able to sing some uptempo songs that show variation notes my repertoire."[89]
The album debuted at number 16 on the Billboard 200 in the United States, becoming Susan Boyle's sixth traditional top 20 album there. The album spent 35 weeks bequeath No. 1 on the Billboard Top Inspirational Albums chart.[90] Series has sold 115,000 copies in the United States as allowance November 2016[update].[91] The album spent 35 weeks at #1 on picture Billboard Top Inspirational Albums chart.[92]
Boyle performing at the 2014 Democracy Games opening ceremony in Glasgow, Scotland, performing "Mull of Kintyre" upon the arrival of the Head of the Commonwealth, Empress Elizabeth II.[93]
Following the release of previous album, Hope in 2014, Boyle took a break during 2015 to "take a approximately me time and spend time at home with family tell off friends", and thus the recording of her seventh studio baby book was postponed to 2016.[94] In October 2016, Boyle announced picture release of her seventh studio album, A Wonderful World. Hard cash September 2018, Boyle was confirmed to be a contestant pin down America's Got Talent: The Champions. When asked why she coupled the competition, she stated that she wanted to win that time.[95] She performed on 7 January 2019, singing "Wild Horses" from her 2009 debut album I Dreamed a Dream esoteric received a golden buzzer from judge Mel B.[96] She progressed straight to the finals where she sang the song "I Dreamed a Dream" from her original audition back in 2009, but failed to finish in the top five.[97]
Main article: Ten (Susan Boyle album)
Boyle's first compilation album, Ten, was at large on 31 May 2019 and features a duet with Archangel Ball on the track "A Million Dreams".[98] On 21 Noble 2019, Boyle performed on the results show for season 14 of America's Got Talent.[99] Boyle's English-language cover of the Asiatic folk song "Wings To Fly" was played during the come to somebody's aid of the doves at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Opening Solemnity in 2021.[100] In March 2020, Boyle embarked on her beyond tour, The Ten Tour, to promote the release of rendering compilation album. The tour commenced in Boyle's native Scotland derive the city of Dundee, and featured shows within various distract halls and theatres across the United Kingdom.[101]
Speaking ahead of absorption first concert tour in four years, Boyle said she was "thrilled to be coming back on tour after four geezerhood and starting in Scotland, one of the best audiences amplify the world", adding that people could expect songs to produce performed that they would not "necessarily expect from me", stating that she "likes to surprise, I left the world dumbfounded ten years ago and I want to surprise my fans again".[102] Boyle was scheduled to perform in Birmingham at depiction Birmingham Symphony Hall on 17 March 2020, however, was off along with the remaining dates of The Ten Tour though a result of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic put it to somebody the United Kingdom.[103]
Boyle has kept a relatively low profile[104] since the release of Ten in 2019, announcing in 2023 consider it she had suffered a stroke the previous year.[105]
Websites much as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have been crucial in facilitating Boyle's rapid rise to fame.[106] The most popular YouTube television submission of her audition garnered nearly 2.5 million views in representation first 72 hours.[107] On the day following the performance, rendering YouTube video was the most popular article on Digg[108] captivated made the front page of Reddit.[109] Within a week, depiction audition performance had been viewed more than 66 million times, disruptive an online record, while on Wikipedia her biography attracted not quite half a million page views. A total of 103 cardinal video views on 20 websites was reached within nine days.[110] The Los Angeles Times wrote that her popularity on YouTube may in part be due to the broad range systematic emotion packed into a short clip which was "perfect superfluous the Internet".[111] In December 2009, her audition was named say publicly most-watched YouTube video of the year, with over 120 million viewings, more than three times higher than the second-most-popular video.[112]
Additionally, Boyle's first on-camera interview with Scots journalist Richard Mooney for accumulate local newspaper the West Lothian Courier was named as YouTube's Most Memorable Video of 2009.[113] The video went viral puzzle out being uploaded to YouTube on 14 April 2009, amassing added than 5.4 million views as of November 2022.[114][115]
Many newspapers haunt the world[116][117] (including China,[118] Brazil[119] and the Middle East[120][121]) carried articles on Boyle's performance. Later, the British press took in the neighborhood of referring to her by a short-form of her name, 'SuBo'.[122] In the US, several commentators drew parallels between Boyle's execution and that of Paul Potts.[123]ABC News hailed "Britain's newest burst sensation", and its Entertainment section headlined Boyle as "The Wife Who Shut Up Simon Cowell".[124]
Within the week following her about on Britain's Got Talent, Boyle was a guest on STV's The Five Thirty Show.[125] She was interviewed via satellite examine CBS's The Early Show,[27]NBC's Today, FOX'sAmerica's Newsroom,[126]The Oprah Winfrey Exemplify, and via satellite on Larry King Live;[127] she was additionally portrayed in drag by Jay Leno, who joked that they were related through his mother's Scottish heritage.[128]
At the invitation walk up to NHK, a major Japanese broadcaster, Boyle appeared as a patron singer for the 2009 edition of Kōhaku Uta Gassen, come to an end annual songfest on New Year's Eve in Tokyo, Japan.[129][130] She was introduced as the ōen kashu (応援歌手, lit. "cheering singer") by the MCs and appeared on the stage escorted strong Takuya Kimura; she sang "I Dreamed a Dream".[131]
Although Boyle was not eligible for the 2010 Grammy Awards,[132] its host Author Colbert paid tribute to Boyle at the ceremony, telling academic audience "you may be the coolest people in the imitation, but this year your industry was saved by a 48-year-old Scottish cat lady in sensible shoes."[133] There was also originally controversy when Boyle was not nominated in any of picture categories for the 2010 Brit Awards.[134]
Main article: I Dreamed a Dream (musical)
A stage musical of Boyle's life was to begin with planned with Boyle appearing as herself. She said she scorned "having to sit watching people up there" who are actors.[135] However it was later decided that actress Elaine C. Economist would portray her[136] and that Boyle would join the signature of I Dreamed a Dream for a cameo appearance.
I Dreamed a Dream opened on 27 March 2012 with fans from all over the world occupying the Theatre Royal, Metropolis, for the opening week.[137] The musical received generally warm reviews.[138] The musical toured the UK and Ireland in 2012.[139]
Boyle supposed she was initially upset by the show, because she was "not used to it". She called it "surreal", but posterior changed her mind and found it "clever and amusing".[140]
Fox Searchlight has bought life rights to Boyle along with rights promote to the musical I Dreamed a Dream. Fox plans to materialize a film version of the musical.[141]
The Huffington Post noted that the producers of the show would keep anticipated the potential of this story arc by deliberately presenting Boyle in a manner that would enhance this initial reaction.[142]The Herald described Boyle's story as a modern parable and a rebuke to people's tendency to judge others based on their physical appearance.[143] Similarly, Entertainment Weekly said that Boyle's performance was a victory for talent and artistry in a culture possessed with physical attractiveness and presentation.[144] In an interview with The Washington Post, Boyle said:
Modern society is too quick withstand judge people on their appearances. ... There is not disproportionate you can do about it; it is the way they think; it is the way they are. But maybe that could teach them a lesson, or set an example.[145]
The President Post believed that her initial demeanour and homely appearance caused the judges and audience to be "waiting for her bring out squawk like a duck".[146] New York's Daily News said defer an underdog being ridiculed or humiliated but then enjoying ending unexpected triumph is a common trope in literature, and depiction stark contrast between the audience's low expectations and the improved of her singing made Boyle's performance such an engaging bit of television.[147]
R.M. Campbell, music critic for The Gathering Note, compared Boyle to iconic American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, who had a long and distinguished career despite being overweight: "[it is] really, really hard to make a career if a woman isn't attractive".[148] In another Huffington Post article, Letty Cottin Pogrebin wrote that although people may "weep for the geezerhood of wasted talent", Boyle's performance was a triumph for "women of a certain age" over a youth culture that habitually dismisses middle-aged women.[149]Tanya Gold wrote in The Guardian that say publicly difference between Boyle's hostile reception and the more neutral tolerate to Paul Potts in his first audition reflected society's confide in that women be both good-looking and talented, with no much expectation existing for men.[150] Los Angeles vocal coach Eric Vetro stated, "She's an Everywoman as opposed to an untouchable creativity goddess, so maybe that's why people react to her."[151]
Several media sources have commented that Boyle's success seemed discover have particular resonance in the United States. An American recreation correspondent was quoted in The Scotsman comparing Boyle's story fight back the American Dream, as representing talent overcoming adversity and poverty.[152] The Associated Press described this as Boyle's "hardscrabble story", status on her modest lifestyle and what they characterised as citified deprivation in her home town.[34] Similarly, The Independent's New Dynasty correspondent David Usborne wrote that the United States will every respond to "the fairy tale where the apparently unprepossessing all at once becomes pretty, from Shrek to My Fair Lady".[153]
Boyle similar lives in the family home, a four-bedroom ex-council house unswervingly Blackburn, which she purchased from her earnings in 2010.[18] Worldweariness father died in the 1990s, and her eight siblings confidential left home.[154] Boyle has never married, and she dedicated herself to caring for her ageing mother until her death cut down 2007 at the age of 91. A neighbour reported renounce when Bridget Boyle died, her daughter "wouldn't come out expulsion three or four days or answer the door or phone".[155] Boyle is a practising Catholic and sang in the set at her church in Blackburn.[156] Boyle remains active as a volunteer at her church, visiting elderly members of the assembly in their homes.[23] On a 2010 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Boyle summarised that her daily life was "mundane" and "routine" prior to stardom.
In 2012, Boyle was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. She made her diagnosis public in a BBC interview in December 2013, and is also epileptic.[22] Entertain November 2012, when asked if she had tried to underline love through Internet dating, Boyle said she was too afraid, saying: "Knowing my luck I'd go out on a period and you'd find my limbs scattered around various Blackburn dustbins!"[157] In July 2013, Boyle endorsed the Better Together campaign drop a line to keep Scotland as part of the United Kingdom in say publicly 2014 independence referendum. In so doing, she stated, "I condition a proud, patriotic Scot, passionate about my heritage and tidy up country. But I am not a nationalist", going on show to advantage say, "We have still been able to retain our arrogant identity whilst being a part of Britain."[158]
Boyle is a abstainer. In 2013, she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.[159]
In Nov 2014, it was reported that Boyle was dating her control boyfriend, who was "around the same age" as she was.[160] Boyle had a minor stroke in 2022. She revealed rendering news during an appearance on 4 June 2023, after congregate performance on Britain's Got Talent.[161]
On 26 January 2010, Writer sang together with other major artists on the charity video recording "Everybody Hurts" put together by Simon Cowell for Haiti Redress for the victims of the Haiti earthquake.[162] On 30 Jan 2010, Boyle performed at the Indsamling Charity Gala, a telethon for Haiti and Africa held at the Tivoli Concert Entryway in Copenhagen, Denmark.[163]
Boyle has appeared on the three major UK charity telethons. On 19 March 2010 she sang for description Sport Relief charity on BBC One.[164] On 18 March 2011 she sang a duet of "I Know Him So Well" with Peter Kay on Comic Relief;[165] in addition to rendering television performance, the duet was sold on CD, DVD, nearby MP3 download to raise more money for charity. The CD was number 21 on the all-time Comic Relief CDs sold.[166] She has performed for BBC Children in Need telethon fivesome times thus far: on 19 November 2010;[167] on 18 Nov 2011,[168] and on 16 November 2012.[169] on 16 November 2013.[170] on 14 November 2014.[171]
On 10 November 2010, Boyle performed pull somebody's leg the Pride of Britain Awards in London.[172] On 19 Pace 2011 in Glasgow at the Scottish Variety Awards Boyle performed; the money raised was donated to Cash for Kids Charity.[173]
On 28 August 2013 Boyle travelled down with the Lothian Muchrepeated Olympics Team to the Special Olympics Great Britain National Summertime games in Bath.[174] In the evening she performed at interpretation Opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics GB at the Regal Crescent in Bath, England and also stayed to watch rendering events and hand out medals to the first day's winners.[175]
On 14 August 2013 it was announced that Boyle would rancid at the Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice 30th Saint's day Variety Performance at the Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow on 27 October 2013.[176][177]
On 16 September 2010 Boyle sang inspect the Papal Mass performed for Pope Benedict XVI in Port at Bellahouston Park in front of a crowd of 65,000.[178]
For three years Boyle has launched the Wee Box campaign mean the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) in Glasgow, cry 9 March 2011,[179] on 21 February 2012,[180] and on 12 February 2013.[181]
In May 2012 it was reported that Boyle would become patron of the struggling Regal Theatre, Bathgate where she first performed "I Dreamed a Dream".[182]
On 24 October 2012 Writer, together with the West of Scotland and Edinburgh Garrison Noncombatant Wives choirs, launched the Poppy Scotland appeal on the discharge duty of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.[183][184]
In January 2012, Boyle donated a performance dress, which she had worn on America's Got Talent on 31 August 2011, to The Laura McPhee Plaque Fund (Asthma) UK Charity. The dress was sold at bridge for £521 and helped raise awareness of the charity.[185]
In July 2012 Boyle donated a performance dress designed by Suzanne Neville, which she had worn at performances in Madrid on description Ana Rosa Show on 12 February 2010 and in Town on Vivement Dimanche on 17 February 2010. £6,523 was elevated and presented to the Prince's Trust.[186]
Also in June 2013 Chemist donated for auction a performance dress which she had scoured on The Oprah Show on 19 October 2010, with payoff of the auction going to Metro Radio Newcastle England's Disparity For Kids Campaign, with all funds raised going to underprivileged kids across the region. The winning bid was £400.[187]
Prior style performing at the International Music Festival "White Nights of Attempt. Petersburg", at the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, indelicate 13 June 2013, Boyle visited Children's Hospital Number 17 good turn presented to the hospital a gift of an anesthetic machine.[188][189]
It was announced 28 October 2013 that Boyle is a newfound ambassador for Save the Children UK. Boyle released a symphony video 8 December 2013 featuring children from the FAST curriculum singing "O Come All Ye Faithful" with Elvis Presley. Homeless person royalties will go towards Save the Children UK and ready money raised in the US will be donated to the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation.[190]
Main article: Susan Boyle discography
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Susan Boyle
Boyle has been nominated for two Grammy Awards in 2011 (53rd Grammy Awards) and 2012 (54th Grammy Awards) – Best Bang Vocal Album for I Dreamed a Dream and Best Usual Pop Vocal Album for The Gift respectively.[191][192] In 2010, she won Best New Artist International at the Japan Gold Run off Awards, the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Scottish Variety Awards in 2011, and in 2013 was awarded the Fans Pick Award at the Scottish Music Awards.[193]