Aug 25, 2010 / 14:06 pm
Susan Boyle said in an interview on Wednesday that she is "honored and humbled" for the invitation to sing for the Pope in her homeland of Scotland next month. The performances she will make during the Pope's visit are "her greatest dream come true."
Ms. Boyle entered the world music scene in 2009 when she appeared on Britain's Got Talent, a program in which contestants vie for the opportunity to perform for members of the British Monarchy. She blew the judges away with her rendition of "I dreamed a dream" from Les Miserables and, although she didn't win the contest, she became world-famous. Her album, fittingly called “I dreamed a dream,” was the world's best-selling album of 2009.
In a television interview with the Scottish Bishops' communications office which aired on Wednesday, she revealed that she will be singing the song that made her internationally famous, as well as "How great thou art," before the Pope's Mass at Glasgow's Bellahouston Park on Sept. 16.
Then, after joining an 800-member choir to sing the hymns at Mass, she will send Pope Benedict XVI off to the airport with a farewell song.