Brewerton (WSYR-TV) - The first album to debut at number one in both the United States and the United Kingdom since the Beatles in 1969 features a Central New Yorker. Amber Stassi, of Brewerton, lent her voice to the third track of Sussan Boyle's new holiday album.
The experience took Amber Stassi from her job as an Emergency Medical Technician to a London recording studio, where she helped Boyle create the hit album.
"Just to be a part of that and so many people across the world actually hearing my voice on this number one selling album. I couldn't ask for a better gift," said Stassi.
The album is titled "The Gift," and Stassi is fresh off a trip to the Today Show in New York City promoting it. There, she and Boyle sang their duet, "Do You Hear What I Hear," live on national television. "I was extremely nervous. They did my hair and makeup. So, I felt like a star," she said.
Stassi's journey began inside a bay of the Brewerton Ambulance garage, where she and a co-worker recorded a video they would enter into Boyle's contest on YouTube. On that video, she sang "Silent Night."
She says winning the contest, and taking the journey that followed, gave her the confidence to keep singing. "Never give up on your dream because I'm 33 and a dream came true for me," Stassi said.
Stassi still isn't quitting her day job. She says she'll be back on the ambulance Friday. While she may have some opportunities in music soon, she says she can't say what just yet. She does hope, however, for the opportunity to work with Susan Boyle once again.
Brewerton woman will record duet with Susan Boyle
August 13
Brewerton (WSYR-TV) - She's sold more than nine-million albums, and when Susan Boyle goes back into the recording studio to work on her newest album, a Central New York singer will be there with her.
Amber Stassi, 33, of Brewerton, found out Thursday night that she won the chance to sing a duet with Susan Boyle. The news is just sinking in for a woman who's always wanted to be a singer. "When she told me 'I have chosen you to come to London to sing with me,' the world kind of went in slow motion for me," Stassi said. "I don't know if I was more excited to speak with Susan Boyle or to win this competition."
Boyle held the competition because she said she wanted to do for someone else what the TV show Britain's Got Talent did for her. All the contest entrants had to do was upload a rendition of silent night to YouTube.
Stassi will fly to London in late August to join Boyle in the recording studio. The song they sing together will be recorded to an album called "The Gift."
Stassi isn't quitting her day job yet. "I've always has this dream of becoming a singer, entertainer, but with this of course I have this goal in the end, I'm just taking it one day at a time and I'm just embracing every moment that I have," she said.
