I love stories like these and this is one of the best I’ve come across in a while and it made my week.

It also raises a question that I hope you’ll help me answer.

Surely by now you’ve heard of Susan Boyle, who wowed the world with her singing on Britian’s Got Talent show. The YouTube video has received 9 million hits in only a few days.

Here’s the video if you haven’t seen it yet. Be sure you read the lyrics over on the right side of the video. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

Did you notice how the crowd was against her before she started singing?

She’s 47-years-old, frumpy looking, unemployed, and has never been kissed.

She was bullied as a child and lives alone in the house she grew up in; she lived with her parents until they died.

She went on Britain’s Got Talent because her mom, who died in 2007, insisted that she should and was confident that she would win.

Susan wasn’t nearly as confident and was only able to work up the courage after her mom’s death.

From the very first notes she stunned the judges and audience…and the world.

The song she sings - I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables - only adds to the emotion, because it’s as if the lyrics were written for her.

This brings me to my question…would we notice her talent if it weren’t for her story?

If she was pretty and had a privileged life, what would we think of her singing abilities? Would we notice her talent in the same way?

Is it even possible to have that kind of talent without a story like that? I think that the pain and loneliness she has experienced helped shape her voice in a way that first class vocal training never could.

What’s YOUR story?

Is it evident in your talents…your products…your copywriting…your life?