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IRELAND’S GOT TALENT kicked off on TV3 last night – and if you thought it wouldn’t match its predecessor in the UK for emotion and spectacle, you were incorrect.
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Evelyn Williams is an 81-year-old great-grandmother from Tallaght who has been singing all her life. Encouraged by her granddaughter, and in memory of her late husband, she signed up to audition for the show.
I miss him like a limb. Seven years nearly now. He was a good man… He used to love to hear me sing. I used to sing to them all.
Evelyn sang Send In The Clowns from the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music, and there was not a dry eye in the house:
Evelyn got a standing ovation from the audience and the judges, with Michelle Visage pressing the golden buzzer to send her straight through to the semi-final.
Explaining her decision, Michelle said:
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There is such life in this woman. She stood up here and commanded this stage better than anyone we’ve yet seen on this show. She’s a storyteller.
She sang one of the most incredible Stephen Sondheim songs ever written, only meant to be sung by a woman this age who has lived a life. And she sang it with love, and that just killed me.
Even after all that, Evelyn reckoned she “could have sung better” – but everyone thought she was just perfect as is.
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A super-talented Tallaght granny had everyone weeping on the first episode of Ireland's Got Talent
IRELAND’S GOT TALENT kicked off on TV3 last night – and if you thought it wouldn’t match its predecessor in the UK for emotion and spectacle, you were incorrect.
Evelyn Williams is an 81-year-old great-grandmother from Tallaght who has been singing all her life. Encouraged by her granddaughter, and in memory of her late husband, she signed up to audition for the show.
Evelyn sang Send In The Clowns from the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music, and there was not a dry eye in the house:
Evelyn got a standing ovation from the audience and the judges, with Michelle Visage pressing the golden buzzer to send her straight through to the semi-final.
Explaining her decision, Michelle said:
Even after all that, Evelyn reckoned she “could have sung better” – but everyone thought she was just perfect as is.
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We can’t wait to see what she does next. Congratulations Evelyn! You’re a star.
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