11-Year-Old Singer Wins The Golden Buzzer On America’s Got Talent

If there is one thing we have become accustomed to seeing in recent years, it’s talented people. We see them on YouTube and other viral platforms, as well as on some of the talent shows shown on TV, including America’s Got Talent.

If you happen to be a fan of AGT, you realize that the biggest honor a contestant can receive is the Golden Buzzer.

Typically, it is given when somebody has exceptional talent during an audition, but an 11-year-old singer named Madison Taylor Baez was honored in a different way.

It all started when she was invited on stage out of the audience and she really surprised the judges with her voice. This was the dream of a lifetime for Baez, who had been attending tapings of the show since she was four years old.

During commercial breaks, she would try to sing for the judges but it never quite worked out. She eventually managed to get an audition, and the producers put her in the audience as a surprise for the judges and to finally give her the opportunity she had been waiting for

It only took a moment with a microphone in her hand and her singing of Amazing Grace for the judges and the audience to be hooked. You could really see the surprise on their faces when she belted out the song as if she had been singing it for decades.

She got a well-deserved standing ovation from the audience and the judges spun their chairs quickly to see who was singing from behind them. Even Simon Cowell, who was taking a coffee break backstage, ran back in to see what was going on.

After seeing her and hearing her voice, he said: “We do ask people in the breaks if they’d like to sing a song and I was literally just coming back in and I heard this voice, thinking, ‘Who the hell is that?’ And then I see this little thing in the audience and it’s you.”

They had her do the official audition and she managed to wow them yet again. Cowell continued with his praise, saying: “I’m not kidding, in all the years we’ve ever done this, this has never actually happened before. I mean, I normally leave during the break because people do sing, so this is actually the opposite. It actually brought me back into the room.”

When Baez was asked what she would do with the $1 million prize if she won, she answered judge Howie Mandel, saying that she would help her father with cancer research. She explained: “He’s had stage four colon cancer for the past nine years.”

I think everybody in attendance realized what was going to happen, and they were busy chanting “Golden Buzzer” as the vote was drawing near. Mandel stood up and hit the buzzer with both hands, giving her the gift of a lifetime.

You can watch it all happening for yourself in the following video:

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