Holly Steel, 10, went through the early rounds of “Britain’s Got Talent” with ease.
Steel’s story again got traction this month after new photos emerged of her years after her performance went viral.
But when she went to sing, she froze in place and hit a block. She then suddenly burst into tears.
After forgetting the words to the song, Steel asked hosts Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly if she could sing it again.
She was told no due to TV scheduling and left her devastated, but host Simon Cowell “saved the day,” so to speak.
Cowell said that no matter what, he would find time for her to sing again.
In an interview this month, she said, “Before I went on to do it… I didn’t have my mum backstage and it was a bit like, this is new to me, it was live as well which was new to me.”
She added: “Before I went on someone said, ‘50 million people are watching so don’t mess it up’. As a 10 year old I was like okay, and walked out by myself like, ‘Oh no…’.”
‘Sound of Silence’ After 45 Years
If you’ve never heard of Simon & Garfunkel, then you’ve either been living in a cave since the 1960s or your parents had a very dubious record collection! But judgment aside, this iconic duo are the stuff of music legend.Many artists have covered this song over the decades, including five-piece a cappella group Pentatonix and the metal band Disturbed, but nobody can quite replicate the haunting beauty of the original song like the men who dreamed it up in the first place.
It was Simon who wrote the song in 1963 at the tender age of 21. He claims to have penned the lyrics in the privacy of the bathroom at his parents’ home, where he was living at the time.
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