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...Potts was a dentally challenged mobile phone salesman, wearing a $50 suit from the supermarket chain Tescos. Boyle, with her gold dress, black hose, white shoes and hedgerow eyebrows, was unemployed and, yes, living alone with her cat, Pebbles. Nobody, the show made clear, had any idea they could sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Susan Boyle: Not Quite Out of Nowhere | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...Boyle's story is similar but with fewer light notes. Her hardscrabble town was Blackburn in Scotland. She also auditioned for a Barrymore TV show, but didn't make the cut. Yet she took singing lessons and recorded Cry Me a River for a charity CD in 1999, the same year she made a demo tape. An observant Catholic, she often sang at church and on karaoke nights. So her talent was no surprise to her neighbors. "Everyone here knew she could sing," Jackie Russell, manager of the local pub, told the AP. "We were always saying, 'You should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Susan Boyle: Not Quite Out of Nowhere | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...communications wasn’t mostly about a trade than it was about experiencing college, which was about self-exploration. I don’t pull out those series and things often, but I had a good time while I was there. 9. FM: In college you won Spring Sing, UCLA’s annual music competition. Twice. You sang in Awaken a Capella, a co-ed a Capella group. How did the music scene at UCLA prepare you for life in the industry? SBB: It was a good jumping off point. But I don’t know...

Author: By Stephanie M. Woo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Sara B. Bareilles | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

It’s night, and Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler sits alone in the backseat (appropriate!) of a moving taxi. He’s singing the lyrics to “Windowsill,” which, like so many of the other tracks off 2007’s “Neon Bible,” strike a world-weary tone. “I don’t want the salesman knocking at my door,” Butler intones. “I don’t want to live in America no more...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Miroir Noir | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...pulling some tabloidy teen-star antics. It's the kind of place where evenings are spent on the porch with nothing for entertainment but a guitar and Rascal Flatts. Where a girl can declare her love for a guy by renovating a chicken coop. Where father and daughter can sing a duet the father has never heard of in a pergola on a misty hill. But wouldn't you know it - the idyllic hamlet needs the help of someone: Hannah Montana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miley Cyrus Meets Hannah Montana, At the Multiplex | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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