Susan Boyle Sings For The Pope

GLASGOW, Scotland — Susan Boyle has dreamed a dream and is singing for the pope.

Boyle, the unlikely pop star who shot to global Internet fame after she sang on the TV show "Britain's Got Talent," was to reprise her winning performance of "I Dreamed a Dream" from "Les Miserables" during a Mass on Thursday celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI.

Boyle was also joining an 800-strong choir in singing hymns at Glasgow's Bellahouston Park.

In a pre-Mass statement, the Scottish-born Boyle said "it's a great honor to sing for the pope and it's something I've always dreamed of."

Benedict was capping off his first day of a four-day state visit to Britain that included a meeting with Queen Elizabeth II at Holyroodhouse Palace in Edinburgh.

Comments

[CheapTrick]

01:31 AM on 09/18/2010

Oh, I just love her. Her cover of "Wild Horses" never fails to move me to tears.

(And I'm a tattooed, metal-head, gay biker. I'm SO not her target audience.)

[elsie900]

07:01 AM on 09/18/2010

That's neat :-)

[JohnnyKay]

07:18 PM on 09/17/2010

"My Boyfriend's Back" would have been the best.

[DWGRadio]

08:44 PM on 09/17/2010

:)

[JohnnyKay]

07:15 PM on 09/17/2010

It's a "great honor" to sing for this pope?

On what planet?

[Chali Hann]

01:29 PM on 09/19/2010

on planet earth you idiot.just because the pope means nothing to you does not make those he means something to aliens.

[mytwocents02]

05:38 PM on 09/17/2010

Always refreshing to read something positive about Susan Boyle, instead of the ugly dramas the media loves to report on her.

[jdrourke]

05:14 PM on 09/17/2010

Good for Susan Boyle! And thank goodness she's not 12. Or a boy.

http://jdrourke.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/dearest-pope-benedict-arnold/

[TheFabOne]

01:47 PM on 09/17/2010

That's her in that picture above? I thought that was Placido Domingo.

[Lakesideboy]

10:38 AM on 09/17/2010

Success stories like hers are so refreshing and heart warming and what the world is all about, especially when it seems nothing, but bad news and bad karma (GOP) is put in our faces constantly.....

[bulbul2]

09:56 AM on 09/17/2010

Happy for her, but where is the song ? Would someone please post the song for us to listen ?

[deadalus]

04:20 PM on 09/17/2010

I'm trying to figure out if you're a m a so chist or a s ad ist.

[bulbul2]

04:55 PM on 09/17/2010

...and you deadalus, with 0 friend is a total nuisance, and flagged for abusive post...it is against HP policy....even if you space your words out ...

[ThinkTwiceWriteOnce]

09:04 AM on 09/17/2010

Surely HP can’t object to a tongue and cheek comment about the Pope’s first choice being the “Back Street Boys”

[JSDKoeln]

08:11 AM on 09/17/2010

I giggle at the thought of SB singing a song about premarital sex in front of the pope. Sometimes singers haven't a clue what they're singing about. They just want to sound dramatic. I wish her well in life, glad she's making a mint, but hope her 15 minutes are soon over.

[deadalus]

04:19 PM on 09/17/2010

Hmmm.... One aging v i rgin serenading another. This has possibilities!

[NicasioKid]

02:56 AM on 09/17/2010

When will Jackie Evancho sing for the pope? Now there's a little angel on earth!

[JSDKoeln]

08:11 AM on 09/17/2010

She would have been more appropriate.

[andthatsnotall]

09:38 AM on 09/17/2010

No! No, no, kids, please!!

[Illy]

12:18 AM on 09/17/2010

She should have serenaded him with "Every Sperm is Sacred."

[Self Evident]

01:45 AM on 09/17/2010

Heh. Okay, that made me laugh tonight. Fanned.

[Bruce Thompson]

09:56 AM on 09/17/2010

Ewwwww.... Old man sperm has to use a cane to move about.

[masha2009]

11:43 PM on 09/16/2010

eh? inside edition reports that the pope had gone (was already in his car) when boyle sang. they even had a video.

[wishfulslinking]

11:36 PM on 09/16/2010

Good for her!

I always felt the lyrics embodied her own missed dreams to live a normal a life, find love, and to sing.

The perfect song for her.

I hope she continues, in the words of Auntie Mame, to "LIVE, LIVE, LIVE!!! " ...and SING!

[JSDKoeln]

08:13 AM on 09/17/2010

rt, a song about premarital sex and having a baby with no father in sight. I can see your point.

[wishfulslinking]

12:29 PM on 09/17/2010

Yes, I saw it in London several times .

 I didn't say the plot, I said , the lyrics, the lyrics completely ALSO mirror her own life.

Feel better?

[Rockwell]

10:51 PM on 09/16/2010

Good for SuBo! I hope it was a medley of Python tunes.