I Dreamed A Dream, Susan Boyle Album

I Dreamed A Dream, Susan Boyle Album updates:- I Dreamed A Dream by Susan Boyle, the upcoming debut album from the talent show sensation, has achieved the largest global CD pre-orders in the history of Amazon.com, This title will be released on November 23, 2009.
About I Dreamed A Dream:- Inspirational and breathtaking, “I Dreamed a Dream” is the highly anticipated album from a global phenomenon whose dream has become reality.
She captured the hearts of millions and became a worldwide YouTube phenomenon with over 300 million hits. An inspiration for those who have a dream, the talented Susan Boyle presents her stunning debut album. Susan surprised the world with her powerful, heart stopping voice when she walked onto the Britain’s Got Talent stage. Now with a beautiful and diverse album she will, once again, defy preconceptions. I Dreamed a Dream, the album, crafted by world acclaimed producer Steve Mac, demonstrates Susan Boyle’s extensive musical ability. Featuring her signature songs, `I Dreamed a Dream’ & `Cry me a River’ the album also includes a haunting rendition of Rolling Stones “Wild Horses”, Madonna’s `You’ll See, The Monkees `Daydream Believer’ and “Who I Was Born To Be” an original recording written specially for Susan. Susan enthused; “It was my greatest ambition to release an album and I have finally achieved it. This amazing journey has helped me find my own identity and fulfill my wish. There is happiness out there for everyone who dares to dream.”
About Susan Boyle

January 21st 2009 is not a date that Susan Boyle is ever likely to forget. ‘I will never forget it,’ she clarifies, in her unmistakeably Celtic brogue. It was the day that the shy, devout 48 year old stepped onto the stage of the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow for an audition on Britain’s Got Talent. Or to put it another way, the day her world turned 360 degrees on its head. In front of the three-strong panel of judges charged with divining which of this year’s British hopefuls really did have talent, the singing voice of Susan Boyle turned out to be a watershed moment neither she nor anyone involved in the show could possibly have foreseen. It is now both her and the show’s defining moment.

In her own haphazard fashion, during three and a half minutes of television airtime, later aired to slack-jawed intakes of breath in May of this year, Susan Boyle fashioned a new kind of fame. She elicited a moment of pure, molten zeitgeist. She broke every rule of the talent show book and tore up a considerable number of the pages of popular music marketing into the bargain. She symbolized an astonishing variety of the little-people’s revenge, quite by accident. Ms Boyle describes her own astonishing 2009 in refreshingly frank and simple terms. ‘All I did was to apply for a talent show. I was lucky enough to be chosen. That’s it in a nutshell.’ But something deeper was going on in the collective public consciousness. If the two watchwords of the 21st century have been ‘reality’ and ‘celebrity’, Susan Boyle had accidentally located a brand new point on the graph where they both intersected. One of Britain’s forgotten characters had rarely, if ever, been so memorable.

After her one audition for Britain’s Got Talent, in which she confounded the judges, the audience and then anyone with access to Youtube’s expectations by dazzling her way through a version of the song I Dreamed A Dream, from the musical Les Miserables, a tornado of opinionated column inches, speculation, rumination and conjecture around Susan Boyle grew feverishly. 300 Million You Tube hits and counting. She became the subject of op-ed newspaper columns, a front cover sensation in her own right. This unlikely candidate for the melting pot of the new star machine in 21st century Britain caused computer crashes, miles of newsprint and the sophisticated approval of Hollywood’s well-heeled and super-groomed A-list. Though the content differed wildly, everyone proffering their thoughts on the self-confessed ‘wee wifey’ seemed agreed on one point. That in 2009, to be free of an opinion on Susan Boyle was to be free of opinion itself.
For one brief moment, vanity itself collapsed. As that ancient old maxim – ‘Never judge a book by its cover’ – clanked around the globe with speedy viral intensity, it was as if the world was about to offer its first unspoken apology for prizing beauty above all else. Perhaps it would temporarily forget its grotesquely accentuated new heights of judgement. Or perhaps Susan Boyle was just a fleeting icon by which a microscope was shone on our more fickle presumptions. Whatever history gifts the Susan Boyle story in the long term, it is now her time to prove that there is more to this incredible woman than being the symbol for a moment of international reflection. She will do it in the exact same way she entered our consciousness in the first place. With the raw combination of strength and fragility, beauty and solitude that is her singing voice.

In some ways, Ms Boyle’s story is just the same as any woman with a voice in any choir up and down the UK. In her home town of Blackburn, she had been schooled in singing in churches and choral societies. She says now that, as a shy young woman with some learning difficulties, being hidden in the blanket of a collective singing arrangement offered her comfort. So in one other, crucial way, her story is entirely her own. The most unlikely chorister in the sea of voices stepped out of line and put her head above the parapet to be noticed. For Susan Boyle, though she would never deign to say so much herself, this was an act of personal heroism, the like of which she had never contemplated before.

The speed with which reaction to her performance picked up gravitas proved an incendiary media hotbed. But it was most surprising for the woman at the centre of it. ‘It started off with the [Scottish newspaper] Daily Record visiting my door. And it ended up with TV stations from all over the world camping out on my street waiting for interviews and stories. I’d peak behind the curtains in the house, saying ‘what in God’s name is going on here?’ Then the phone calls started. My number was still in the book at that particular time, so anybody could get it and the phone was ringing 24 hours a day. It was constant. People were ringing me who I couldn’t understand because of their accents. All sorts of nationalities. Lots of Americans. It was absolutely unbelievable if I’m being honest.’ She is self-deprecating about why she should have caused such a furore. ‘A woman who went on with mad hair, bushy eyebrows and the frock I was wearing had to be noticed. Come on!’

Such is the quick nature of today’s star system, in September, just four months after her TV debut, Susan Boyle made her live TV comeback. She performed a rarefied take on The Rolling Stones Wild Horses, re-orchestrated to gently clasp the exact timbre of her natural talent, on the show’s US cousin, America’s Got Talent. An unprompted standing ovation followed. Outside of the unruly cyclone of her fame, there is something within the voice of Susan Boyle that is absolutely perfect for our times. At a moment when Dame Vera Lynn and Barbra Streisand are topping the album charts, there is something peculiarly modern about her improbably status as holding the international record for most pre-ordered album of all time. As the dust settles on the sheer wattage of conversation that she has prompted, it is time – as they say – to face the music.

Ms Boyle’s debut album was put together during the summer of this year. She first entered a recording studio in July in Edinburgh, to test how her vocals would respond to tape. The results shocked both her and veteran producer Steve Mac. Decamping to London, she fashioned the record over two months, picking songs that resonated with her, that pricked something within that she felt ready to unleash through music. ‘It was important that I could feel everything I was singing,’ she says, cutting straight to the core of why music can be such a useful release, an escape valve from the everyday.

A disarming mix of the sacred (‘My faith is my backbone,’ she says) and the secular, there is not a moment on it that is not moving. It is pitched exactly within the framework of the year she has enjoyed and, at well-documented times, endured. It is a collection of covers and original material that cuts a swathe into the interior life of the woman who is arguably the most intriguing, not to mention instantly recognisable character yet to be produced by the reality talent medium, the decade’s defining TV genre.

When she hurts, it hurts. Her rousing rendition of Madonna’s You’ll See is a riposte to the children that picked on her in the playground. The new composition Who I Was Born To Be is an astonishing testament to self-belief against some startling odds. Yet when she dreams, we dream too. Because of her uncanny knack of picking a song so perfect for her tale at that very first audition, Ms Boyle has become synonymous with the word ‘dream’. Her flawless album rendition of I Dreamed A Dream may come as no surprise, but it still manages to pick every individual hair from the back of your neck and yank them to attention. A country ballad version of Daydream Believer delicately seals the deal of her being synonymous with the concept of dreaming.

For this is Susan Boyle’s tale. The fearlessness to dream about something other than the lot life has handed you. The chance to escape. The pivotal role of music as a conduit to go to another place, sometimes lodged at the outer recesses of your imagination, and to allow that new place to blossom. Yes, this is Susan Boyle’s tale. It is why it connected with so many unsuspecting people across the world. In another nutshell? If she can dare to dream, so can you.

Josh Pastner

latest news about, Josh Pastner: I’m watching Josh Pastner, child prodigy, a coach in his first grand time playing basketball. It is against No. 1 Kansas on ESPN. He smiles a lot. Is not it strange?

But perhaps it is.

After KU watches Josh Memphis team, the Tigers will roll to nine straight wins against all opponents most laughable of this side of Herb Sendek and ASU.

It will be a much needed break-in period for young Mr. Pastner, 32, who did not have to worry much until the game of their New Year charged against rival Tennessee.

History Pastner’s will get plenty of game earlier this season – AAU travel team coach at 16, self-promotion magician found himself on the bank of Arizona in the championship game of the NCAA in 1997 — but the reality of the rings Big Time soon overcome that Gee – genius approach.

Pastner may not know an X from an O, but not likely to get caught short in the organs of talent on his bench.

His head is through the roof. If you can hire as Pastner ago, in a sad place, like Memphis, which will not be long until a school’s main street offers a better deal.

Pastner has hired seven of the best high school students in the United States in recent weeks, a class ranked No. 2 in the country by some analysts. Before long untl has enough talent to hang with Kansas and around the world.

More important this season, a transition following the departure of John Calipari of Memphis, Pastner will maturing as a call-coach-headshots. That is the big unknown about its future.

I suppose he has enough talent to overcome the harshness of training, especially in the U.S. Conference indescribable, you get an extended time to learn the coaching business.

He’s not Sean Miller, not yet, but Pastner is nine years younger than the head coach of Arizona. It will be fun watching him make his way in a pool of sharks.
Source: regulus2.azstarnet.com

Himesh visits Salman at Dus Ka Dum

Salman Khan’s next set go guests on his show Dus Ka Dum were Radio lead hero Himesh Reshammiya and his two co-actresses.

Salman and Himesh were not on talking terms few days ago but then they kissed and made-up and Sallu invited Himesh on his show.

Salman revealed some secrets and facts about Himesh. He remembered how Himesh is so passionate about his music that he can compose a song in a second and Himesh also gave the proof about his talent on Dus Ka Dum.

Himesh also revealed how Salman’s dog Myjaan once chased him and to save himself he climbed a 20ft wall.

Do check out the episode on October 10th.

Fat to fit on Tere Mere Beach Mein

This weeks episode of Farah Khan’s chat show Tere Mere Beach mein deals with two people who went from fat to fit. Karan Johar and Sonam Kapoor.

While Karan Johar weighed 120 kilos at one point of time in his life, Sonam had reached a whooping 90 kgs in her mid 20’s.

Sonam says,”I was depressed when I went to boarding school at the age of 15. I was the only Indian girl in my school in Singapore. There was plenty of junk food and mum had stopped all chocolates at home. Here, I was free and ate though it was comfort eating and I also gained weight due to hormonal imbalances. I went from 50 kilos to 90 kilos in jus 4 months. I gained 40 kilos. I used to eat 1 pint icecream, two large pizzas alone and instead of three meals would have 10 meals a day. My mum started crying seeing me.”

“When Sanjay Leela Bhansali saw me, he said that I look like a painting from Ajanta. Don’t lose weight, you have those curves.”

To which Farah asked, “Tum Ajanta ki painting thi ki poori Ajanta ki cave thi?”

With all that dedication and hardwork Sonam looks stunning now, ain’t she folks?

Priyanka’s new hairstyle

Priyanka Chopra has changed her hairstyle and she is sporting a new chic look. The question is – Does the hairstyle look good on Miss Piggy Chops or does she need to immediately visit the salon again?

Katrina-Ranbir new stills

Check out the new stills from Katrina Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor starrer Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani. Kat-Ranbir form the most cutest pair I have seen in recent times.

Shahid:Please link me with Rani

Shahid Kapoor is always linked with every of his co-star, ranging from Amrita Rao, Vidya Balan to more recently Priyanka Chopra, however he is not being linked with his next co-star Rani Mukherjee and he finds it amusing.

Shahid says, “Yes it’s been amusing me and Rani both, how there is no link up between the two of us in the press…specially since I get linked up with every single heroine of mine… kuch karna padega!”

So should we link you up with Rani, Shahid?

Susan Boyle Wild Horses Video

Susan Boyle, who came in second place during the last season of Britain’s Got Talent, made her U.S. debut last night on the stage of the season finale of America’s Got Talent.
Her performance was pre-recorded in front of a full audience who cried and cheered when she sang the Rolling Stones song Wild Horses, the new single from her debut album Echo, which will be released in November by Sony BMG record label.  She was greeted warmly by Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne after the performance.

The 48-year-old church volunteer and overnight singing sensation from West Lothian, Scotland arrived stateside over the weekend and has been staying at Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.  She is slated to meet with Simon Cowell, who has publicly declared that he will do everything he can to protect her and promote her in the appropriate way to ensure her future success.

View more photos (click to expand) and see two videos: Susan Boyle’s Wild Horses performance and her recent Harper’s Bazaar photo shoot below.