SuBo’s aspiration persists as she arrives in Japan and prepares to collaborate with opera legend Andrea Bocelli in a duet.
Since her appearance on Britain’s Got Talent, Susan Boyle has been living her dream, and it seems that her fortune is only continuing to improve.
The Scottish singer was beaming upon her arrival in Japan yesterday, where she is scheduled to make an appearance on the nation’s most popular television show on New Year’s Eve.
Boyle, 48, will be boosted by the news that she will perform a duet with opera star Andrea Bocelli on ITV1’s upcoming show Pop Star To Opera Star, which will train pop performers to sing arias.
Susan startled record label executives earlier this month when her album I Dreamed A Dream dethroned Bocelli’s My Christmas and reached number one on the Billboard charts in the United States.
According to a source at The Sun newspaper, Susan has kept Andrea off the top of the US charts for weeks, which is extraordinary. But he carries no grudges; he quipped that he “must sing with this wonderful woman.”
Susan’s debut album sold over 700,000 copies in its first week, breaking records on Amazon and attaining the highest pre-sales statistics in the site’s history. Bocelli, 51, who is blind, has sold 70 million CDs and served as a coach on American Idol.
Boyle is rumored to be collaborating with him on one of his most popular duets, Time to Say Goodbye or The Prayer, which he previously performed with Celine Dion. The duet comes after she fulfilled a lifetime ambition by performing I Know Him So Well alongside her idol Elaine Paige on an ITV1 Christmas special chronicling Boyle’s ascent to prominence.
Fans in Japan anticipate a spectacular performance on New Year’s Eve, and her popularity is not expected to diminish. The artist will perform a traditional Japanese song on the country’s most popular New Year’s Eve broadcast.
‘Kohaku Uta Gassen is a major show seen by millions,’ a source close to the artist stated. Susan has been practicing the Japanese traditional song Wings To Fly in anticipation of performing it live for the first time.
The song was first released as a bonus track on the Japanese version of her album I Dreamed A Dream, which is now number one in the Japanese album charts although Boyle has never visited Japan or been marketed there.
Pop stars such as Will Young, Girls Aloud’s Kimberley Walsh, and former Sugababe Mutya Buena are being touted as potential Pop Star to Opera Star contenders. The pop artists have identified Paul Potts, the 2007 winner of Britain’s Got Talent, as a potential coach.