For someone whose original work sounds like Broadway outtakes and whose performance style is from the just-standing-there school of entertaining, Susan Boyle sure is exciting! You never know what to expect, hence the old saying, "Life is like a box of Susan Boyles..."
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On America's Got Talent, a 42-year-old housewife named Cindy Chang performed the Puccini aria "O mio babbino caro," impressing everyone in the room (no one more than herself, though — she wept when she finished). That love has spread throughout the Internet, where Chang is being proclaimed "the next Susan Boyle."
VIDEO: Multi-Faced performer wins over America's Got Talent judges
That description says far less about Chang than it does the people who are drawing it...
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First Susan Boyle shocked viewers with her unexpected singing chops on Britain's Got Talent, and now a Beijing woman is creating a viral sensation with dance moves inspired by the King of Pop.
Bai Shuying, 65, wowed the judges and audience alike with her dance tribute to Michael Jackson during the first round of auditions for China's Got Talent earlier this month.
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Does Britain's Got Talent have a male Susan Boyle on its hands?
Over the weekend, the talent show, which launched Boyle to superstardom two years ago, introduced us to Edward Reid, a 35-year-old drama teacher who wowed the judges and earned a standing ovation with his ...
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Why did Simon Cowell and the producers of Fox's The X Factor decide to offer contestants the biggest grand prize on television? To make everybody a little nervous, Cowell says.
The X Factor to offer $5 Million grand prize
"By putting up that kind of prize money, it's a massive, massive risk. But it's also an incredible incentive," Cowell told reporters Monday of the decision to offer the winning X Factor act a $5 million recording contract. "I think it puts everybody, rightly, under an enormous amount of pressure. I didn't want to go into this show without a feeling a certain amount of pressure, because with pressure, you've got to find a star.
"I think if we can't find a global star, then I would say we...
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