She then toured arenas in the United Kingdom and Ireland, making live performances with the series' other finalists in the summer of 2009.
[citation needed] Steel's parents, Nina and Jason, who work as National Health Service audiologists, said that she was entered in Britain's Got Talent so she would not feel left out as they felt her brother, Joshua, five years older, was more likely to progress.
In her first televised appearance, she began her number ballet dancing to "I Could Have Danced All Night" from the musical My Fair Lady, then, as judge Simon Cowell started to reach for the red rejection buzzer, she began singing the song with an unexpectedly powerful voice.
Commentators and mainstream media outlets speculated that she might defeat Susan Boyle, who had made an impression worldwide in the first show of the series.
During June and July 2009, Steel appeared in Britain's Got Talent – The Live Tour 2009 with most of the other finalists from the third series.
[12] The album was released on Steel's own label, BB5 Records Limited, named after the Accrington postcode,[13] and includes the Pendle's Arden Youth Choir on some of the classical pieces.
[15] Steel's third single was "I Could Have Danced All Night", from My Fair Lady, and "O Mio Babbino Caro", from Gianni Schicchi, and was released on 10 May 2010.
The first song of the single is a cover of "When Christmas Comes to Town" from the 2004 animated/live action movie The Polar Express; and the music video became popular on YouTube.
"[19] On 4 December 2010, Steel gave performances of "O Mio Babbino Caro" and "O Holy Night" at Carnegie Hall in New York.
[22][23] In April 2011, Steel was cast in the role of Louisa von Trapp in Andrew Lloyd Webber's UK tour of The Sound of Music.