In the 18 months since she won “America’s Got Talent,” singing ventriloquist Darci Lynne Farmer has become one of the franchise’s biggest success stories. She is among the five “AGT” season titleholders who are competing for the ultimate bragging rights on “America’s Got Talent: The Champions.” Watch what Darci Lynne and her puppet pal Oscar the mouse sing for judges Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum, Mel B and Howie Mandel and new host Terry Crews in the leaked video above.
Darci Lynne took time off of her busy nationwide tour to compete in this spin-off series. As she tells Mel B, “I always love a good competition. The chance to have the world champion title is awesome.” Oscar readily admits to being nervous, but then wails a medley of the Tina Turner classics “Nutbush City Limits” and “Proud Mary.”
Darci Lynne won season 12 of “AGT” over another child, singer Angelica Hale, who is also set to take part in this ultimate talent showdown. In all 50 acts from various editions of the franchise worldwide are being pitted against each other. Each week, 10 of them take to the stage.
Darci competes on the second episode of “AGT: The Champions.” We have the whole line-up of 10 acts, including the names of those three who won versions of “Got Talent” in their respective countries. And we discovered which six “AGT” also-rans are back hoping for a different result this time.
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In the premiere episode of that aired January 7, “Britain’s Got Talent” runner-up Susan Boyle got the Golden Buzzer from Mel B for her cover of the Rolling Stones rock song “Wild Horses.” And stand-up comic Preacher Lawson won enough votes from the Superfans to move on in the competition as well.
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