“America’s Got Talent” it’s about discovering stars, and sometimes those stars can be sitting right behind you.
It’s a lesson judges Simon Cowell, howie mandel, Heidi klum Y Sofia Vergara learned on Tuesday’s episode of NBC’s reality competition, in which an 11-year-old girl snagged the coveted golden buzzer after drawing the attention of the judges while singing in the studio audience on a commercial break.
Before her seemingly impromptu performance, Madison Taylor Baez opened up about being a fan of “AGT” since she was 4 years old.
“I’m the biggest ‘America’s Got Talent’ fan there could be, and here I am,” she said.
But instead of taking the stage and auditioning the old-fashioned way, Baez hid in the studio audience, mingling with the fans.
To pass the time during breaks, members of the “AGT” studio audience have the opportunity to sing into a microphone. When the microphone reached Baez, his powerful rendition of “Amazing Grace” instantly had the judges craning their necks in his direction and earning a standing ovation from the crowd.
Cowell, notoriously hard to impress, marveled at Baez and invited her to sing onstage.
“I’ve been on a lot of recordings (‘AGT’),” Baez told the judges. “Since I was 4 years old, I always tried to sing in commercial breaks. It’s always been my dream to be on this show and I’m finally here.”
After more of Baez’s impressive vocals, Cowell called the contestant a one-of-a-kind talent.
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“I usually leave during the break because people sing, so it’s the opposite actually,” he joked. “He brought me back to the room.”
When asked how he would spend the $1 million prize, Baez said he would donate it to cancer research. He added that his father has been living with stage 4 lung cancer for the past nine years. Later, her father joined her on stage and told her that her daughter learned to sing to comfort him during her chemotherapy treatments.
His talent and pure heart inspired Mandel to hit the Golden Buzzer, sending a teary-eyed Baez straight to the live shows.
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Baez wasn’t the only singer to impress the judges.
Drake Milligan, a 23-year-old country singer from Fort Worth, Texas, got a yes from all four judges, as well as a comparison of Mandel to a musical icon.
“I think that song is a hit and I think you are a hit,” Mandel said after Milligan and his band performed their original song “Sounds Like Something I’d Do.” “You’re like the new Elvis of country.”
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Another memorable singing performance came from Metaphysics.ai founders Chris Ume and Tom Graham, a duo that uses “artificial intelligence to create hyper-real content.”
Instead of singing themselves, they invited former “AGT” contestant Daniel Emmet to sing Chicago’s “You’re the Inspiration” while a camera filmed him.
The camera projected Emmett’s body onto a large screen, but with Cowell’s face plastered on it in a surprisingly realistic and bizarre effect.
“Is it inappropriate to fall in love with a contestant?” Cowell joked. “A great singer who looks amazing.”
They got a unanimous yes from the judges.
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Of course, it wouldn’t be an “AGT” episode without at least one really weird act.
On Tuesday that act came from Zeno Sputafuoco, who seemed to twist a nail into a spiral through his nose and out through his mouth.
Yes, you read that right.
Oh, but that’s not all. The silent contestant also invited Vergara and Klum onstage and had the judges sit on a wheeled platform. He then took a large hook, put it on his nose and dragged the judges from a rope connected between the hook on his nose and the platform.
The grotesque act earned four yeses, sending Sputafuoco into the next round, where he’ll likely pull off even more gag-inducing stunts. Hurrah?
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