19 years ago a six-year-old girl named Connie Talbot from Birmingham walked onto the stage of a brand new TV talent show called Britain’s Got Talent. She’d never had a single singing lesson. The judges expected a joke. She sang “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” a song she’d learned… pic.twitter.com/nc3vL4MLmI
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19 years ago a six-year-old girl named Connie Talbot from Birmingham walked onto the stage of a brand new TV talent show called Britain’s Got Talent. She’d never had a single singing lesson. The judges expected a joke. She sang “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” a song she’d learned by watching The Wizard of Oz over and over with her grandmother Violet, who was very ill at the time. Amanda Holden cried. Simon Cowell called her pure magic. She made it all the way to the final, lost to opera singer Paul Potts, got signed by Sony then dropped for being “too young.” So her family released the album independently. It went number one in three countries and she became the youngest person to ever enter the UK Albums Chart. She’s 25 now and still making music. Her original audition has been watched over 148 million times. What were you doing at six years old?
