Susan Boyle Biography

Fast Facts

• Awarded an honorary doctorate from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh
• The youngest sibling of four brothers and five sisters
• Deprived of oxygen during birth, she has since been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome after years of struggling with various learning disabilities
• While working as a cook at West Lothian College, she would begin taking professional singing lessons
• Quote: "I feel very privileged and lucky to be able to do this and as long as the public wants me, I will be here․"
• Quote: "I find it very humbling that so many people have taken to me the way they have, but I have still got a lot to learn․"
• Quote: "You must have that ability to switch off the ordinariness and go into professional mode, get in the zone and think, 'I am a lot better now that I used to be․'․"
• After years of performing in local pubs and in her church's choir, she would finally gain recognition throughout the United Kingdom after numerous covers she recorded during the 1990s spread online via the internet
• At the insistence of her late mother, she would audition of "Britain's Got Talent" in 2009, which would ultimately prove to by a jumping off point to her superstardom
• Her debut album, I Dreamed a Dream, was released only months of her second-place finish on "Britain's Got Talent" aired and would eventually become one of the best-selling solo albums in the history of the United Kingdom
• Her life story serves as the principal inspiration for the musical, I Dreamed a Dream