Scottish singer Susan Boyle...is coming to Australia. Picture: Sony Music Source: Supplied
Kathy McCabe, Music Editor of The Daily Telegraph, reports
SUPERSTAR singer Susan Boyle will visit Australia for the first time next month to launch her new record Someone To Watch Over Me.
The shy yet sassy Boyle, a Scottish villager who captured the world's attention with her rendition of I Dreamed A Dream on Britain's Got Talent two years ago will perform in Sydney during a whirlwind promotional tour from November 7.
"I'll have a wee cuddle of a koala if I can," she said.
"Coming to Australia will be really exciting. I feel like a wee lassie in a sweetie shop."
SuBo, as she has been affectionately nicknamed, struggled with her overnight success and the rigours of promoting her talent around the world, cancelling her first Australian trip last year due to exhaustion.
She said she now felt more confident and less overwhelmed by her instant fame.
"Susan Boyle the performer now is more confident and mature," she said.
"I was inexperienced when I began - they feel like two very different personas.
"I think the song on the new album This Will Be The Year reflects that - I will show them how I've grown from a wee scared girl to a fully fledged performer."
Having sold 14 million copies of her first two records in just 14 months, Boyle is set to knock Adele off the top of the charts worldwide with her third album Someone To Watch Over Me.
It shows a more adventurous side of the 50-year-old vocalist as she tackles alternative pop hits including Depeche Mode's Enjoy The Silence and Tears For Fears' Mad World.
"They are away from the normal ballpark and I thought I would try something a bit more revealing, if you like," she said.
Her emotionally charged version of Unchained Melody, which last rocketed up the charts thanks to the movie Ghost, already has both critics and her fans raving.
"It's a very powerful song and you really have to look at your own life to reflect that back into the song. You have to feel it," she said.
Despite her newfound fame and fortune allowing her to buy a "posh house" in her Scottish village of Blackburn, Boyle remains living in the home she grew up in.
Her ambitions outside of singing are to learn the piano and to ride horses.
"Singing is my sanctuary; it's a different world, my bubble where no one can harm me," she said.
Boyle, who hopes to reunite with extended family here, said she is also looking forward to meeting the fans whose letters and emails have proven inspirational in choosing the songs for her new record, which is released on November 4.
She will perform on television on Today and The X Factor during her visit.
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