By now, everyone knows about Susan Boyle’s breakout audition on Britain’s Got Talent in 2009, when she sang “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Misérables. It’s arguably one of the most viral singing performances of all time. The audition put Boyle on the map, and as then-BGT Judge Simon Cowell said, helped “change the rulebook” of pop stardom.
Boyle isn’t the only Got Talent alum to try her hand at “I Dreamed a Dream.” Singing ventriloquist Darci Lynne also took a crack at the tune a few years back—totally a cappella. And she crushed it.
Lynne stood out in her inaugural AGT season with her unbelievable ventriloquism act. Not since Terry Fator had the show featured such a skilled ventriloquist. But in the years following, Lynne has established herself as quite the talented singer—without a puppet.
Darci Lynne wants to be an all-around entertainer
Now that she’s 19 and coming into her own as an artist, Darci Lynne wants to be seen as more than just the “ventriloquist girl.”
In a 2017 interview with her local newspaper, The Oklahoman, Lynne opened up about her career aspirations.
“I don’t really want to be known as just the puppet girl or just a singing ventriloquist,” she confessed. “I want to be known as the performer, singer, ventriloquist, actress, Broadway star, all of it. I want to do it all.”
