There have been so many auditions that we have seen on America’s Got Talent throughout the years, and there are a few that will always stand out. There has been Kodi Lee and Nightbirde. And this season’s standout audition goes to Lavender Darcangelo.
Lavender is a 27-year-old blind, autistic singer who won over the hearts of everyone in the room before she sang her first note. She told Simon Cowell, Sofia Vergara, Heidi Klum, and Howie Mandel that she wants to use the money “to build a school where the classes are based off of what kids are naturally curious at. So a school I would’ve thrived in.”
Lavender was joined on the stage by her adoptive father, who shared the story of how they became a family. He started an afterschool music program, and she asked him to adopt her. After a few years, she moved in with him and his husband when they returned from their honeymoon. And a year later, they were the proud legal dads of a daughter!
Now it was time for her audition, and she sang Irene Cara’s On My Own from Fame. Lavender made the ballad her own, and her voice made it one of the most beautiful songs I have heard, just behind the original. In fact, she did such an outstanding job with the tune. I know that Cara is so proud of her that the songwriter’s pride is beaming down at the contestant from Heaven.
After she hit her last note, everyone in the theater stood up and applauded her. When Mandel told her that everyone was on their feet, she humbly responded with, “Oh really? Thank you so much!”
And there is no one more than Klum that she should be thankful to because the Supermodel hit the Golden Buzzer for the singer. And that means she automatically goes through to the live shows.
I can’t wait to see her perform because, as Cowell said, “This is an audition I’ll never forget.” I won’t either.
