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Susan Boyle

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Susan Boyle

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Also known as Susan Magdalane Boyle, SuBo

British singer

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Susan Boyle is a British singer and actor born on April 1, 1961, in Blackburn. Her birth name is Susan Magdalane Boyle, and she holds United Kingdom citizenship. She is a mezzo-soprano who performs in the pop music genre. Boyle began her work period in 1998 and participated in series 3 of Britain's Got Talent. She is educated at Queen Margaret University and speaks English.

Boyle is affiliated with Columbia Records and Sony Music. Her published works include *Betrayal of Palestine*, *Welcome to My Kitchen*, *Welcome to My Kitchen 2nd Ed*, *Susan Boyle*, and *Woman I Was Born to Be*. She has an official website and is listed in the acting department.

Synthesized by Vinony from 42 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Firecrawl, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
5

Top works

  • Betrayal of Palestine
  • Welcome to My Kitchen
  • Welcome to My Kitchen 2nd Ed
  • Susan Boyle
  • Woman I Was Born to Be

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Film & TV

Acting · Dechmont, West Lothian, Scotland

Susan Magdalane Boyle is a Scottish singer who came to international attention when she appeared as a contestant on the TV programme Britain's Got Talent on 11 April 2009, singing "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables. Her first album was released in November 2009 and debuted as the number one best-selling album on charts around the globe.   Susan Boyle's initial appearance on the talent show…

Known for

  • Michelle McManus: Talent Show Winners — Self2023
  • America's Got Talent: The Champions — Self - Contestant2019
  • Zoolander 2 — Susan Boyle2016
  • Peter Kay: 20 Years of Funny — Self2015
  • 20 Moments That Rocked Talent Shows — Self (archive footage)2015
  • The Christmas Candle — Eleanor Hopewell2013
  • Susan Boyle: An Unlikely Superstar — Self2011
  • Royal Variety Performance 2010 — Singer2010
  • I Dreamed a Dream: The Susan Boyle Story — Self2009
  • Kate Garraway's Life Stories — Self2009

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Country
United Kingdom
Active from
1961

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
261,663
Total plays
2,707,080

Tags

female vocalistsbritishSusan Boylepopnew age

Susan Magdalane Boyle (born 1 April 1961 in Blackburn, West Lothian, Scotland) is a Scottish singer who came to international public attention when she appeared as a contestant on reality TV programme Britain's Got Talent on 11 April 2009, singing "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables. Her first album was released in November 2009 and debuted as the number one best-selling CD on charts around the globe. Global interest in Boyle was triggered by the contrast between her powerful voice and her

via Last.fm · Susan Boyle

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. “Mini-mental state”

    · 1975 · cited 68,256x

  2. DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

    · 2016 · cited 32,822x

  3. The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research

    · 1989 · cited 29,175x

  4. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,845x

  5. phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

    · 2013 · cited 20,001x

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Quotes

  • “I'm trying to be a professional singer. … I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.”
  • “Modern society is too quick to judge people on their appearances. There is not much you can do about it; it is the way they think; it is the way they are. But maybe this could teach them a lesson, or set an example.”
  • “It was nerve-racking to begin with but once I started and the audience accepted it I relaxed. It has been surreal. I didn’t realise this would be the reaction I just got on with it. I can hardly remember what happened. I had my eyes closed most of the time. It really didn’t dawn on me what was happening. I did it all for my late mum. I wanted to show I could do something with my life.”

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Official website

Susan Boyle

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Encyclopedic overview

Susan Magdalane Boyle (born 1 April 1961) is a Scottish singer who 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. As of 2021, Boyle had sold 25 million records. Her debut album, I Dreamed a Dream (2009), is one of the best-selling albums of the 21st century, having sold over 10 million copies worldwide, and was the best-selling album internationally in 2009. In 2011, Boyle made UK music history by becoming the first female artist to achieve three successive albums debuting at No.1 in less than two years. As of May 2025, her estimated net worth was £22 million ($29.5 million).

Boyle'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. In her first year of fame, Boyle made £5 million (£8 million today) with the release of I Dreamed a Dream and its lead-off singles, "I Dreamed a Dream" and "Wild Horses". The success continued with her second studio album, The Gift (2010), where she became only the third act ever (and the first female artist) to top both the UK and US album charts with two different albums in the same year. It was followed by Boyle's third studio album, Someone to Watch Over Me (2011). The same year, she recorded and released a cover version of "I Know Him So Well" with Geraldine McQueen to commercial success.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Susan Boyle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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