An amazing video of Susan Boyle singing the song “The way we were” when she was 22 years old surfaced today and the world has all the reasons to be impressed.

As one would’ve anticipated, this video shot 25 years ago proves that Susan Boyle is really a talented woman with a great voice but with quite some bad luck – the video was shot during a local talent show, but Boyle didn’t win the contest back then. And so her talent was hidden from us for 25 years…

Here is what the author of the video you can watch below says about Susan Boyle back when she was a young and a bit better looking girl: “She [Susan Boyle] was so shy, but she was also very attractive back then–she turned a few heads when she came in. She didn’t win the contest, though. I didn’t recognize Susan as the girl on my video when I first saw her on Britain’s Got Talent until a relative called and asked me if I still had the tape.”

I’m wondering if he managed to cash in some money on the video before it went public. Either way, congrats to the man for sharing it with the world! Now let’s watch Susan Boyle singing when she was 22!