Since her unforgettable debut on Britain’s Got Talent, Susan Boyle has been living her dream, and her success continues to reach new heights. The Scottish singer arrived in Japan with a radiant smile, ready to perform on the country’s most-watched New Year’s Eve television show.
Her career has taken another exciting turn with the news that she will soon sing a duet with opera legend Andrea Bocelli on an upcoming ITV1 show. The program, Pop Star To Opera Star, will train popular singers in the art of opera, offering them the opportunity to perform well-known arias.
Earlier this month, Susan surprised record label executives when her album I Dreamed A Dream topped the US Billboard charts, preventing Bocelli’s album My Christmas from reaching the number one spot. A source revealed that despite this unexpected outcome, Bocelli held no grudges and even joked that he must sing with such an incredible talent.
Her debut album sold over 700,000 copies in its first week, setting records on Amazon with the highest number of pre-sales in the website’s history. Bocelli, who has sold 70 million records and served as a mentor on American Idol, is set to perform a duet with Susan on one of his most famous songs. They may sing Time to Say Goodbye or The Prayer, both of which he previously performed with Celine Dion.
This collaboration follows another milestone moment in Susan’s career when she fulfilled a lifelong dream by performing I Know Him So Well with her idol Elaine Paige on an ITV1 Christmas special that documented her rise to fame.
Her popularity shows no signs of fading, with fans in Japan eagerly anticipating her performance. She will appear on the country’s most popular New Year’s Eve television show, singing a traditional Japanese song. A source close to her shared that she has been rehearsing a folk song called Wings to Fly, which she hopes to perform live for the first time.
The song was originally featured as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of her album I Dreamed A Dream, which has already topped the album charts in Japan despite Susan never having visited or been actively promoted in the country.
Meanwhile, other well-known pop stars such as Will Young, Kimberley Walsh from Girls Aloud, and former Sugababe member Mutya Buena are being considered as contestants for Pop Star To Opera Star. Paul Potts, who won the first season of Britain’s Got Talent in 2007, has also been mentioned as a potential mentor for the singers competing in the show.