'America's Got Talent': Heidi Klum Slams Golden Buzzer for 9-Year-Old Singer's Epic Tina Turner Cover

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7:22 PM PDT, July 2, 2024

Week aft week, caller hopefuls deed the America's Got Talent signifier and wow the judges portion winning implicit the audience, and during Tuesday's 5th week of Season 19 auditions, the acts were arsenic mesmerizing arsenic ever.

This week's slate of performers included a young interpretive gymnastics dancer, an inspiring singer-songwriter, an aerialist mates and galore more.

Host Terry Crews led the mind-blowing slate of auditions, which were overseen by longtime judges Howie MandelHeidi KlumSofia Vergara and Simon Cowell. After a nighttime of awesome acts, the occurrence reached it's highpoint erstwhile 9-year-old songstress Pranysqa Mishra took to the signifier and revealed that her favourite singers are Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston and Tina Turner.

So erstwhile she began belting retired Turner's iconic "River Deep -- Mountain High," the opus prime was not a immense astonishment -- however, her dependable surely was. The talented young crooner brought a prime beyond her years to the epic tune, leaving everyone successful the auditorium stunned.

Cowell was near successful speechless awe, and earlier immoderate of the judges were capable to springiness immoderate feedback, Klum made a large decision.

"We expect a batch of things, but I did not expect that," Klum said. "And you cognize what I'm going to bash now? Because I honestly don't privation to perceive what Howie, Simon, oregon Sofia has to say. I privation you to telephone your grandma and accidental that Heidi Klum pushed the Golden Buzzer for you."

Klum past slammed the Golden Buzzer, bringing Mishra to tears and automatically sending her to the unrecorded rounds of play 19.

Here's a look astatine a fewer of the night's different biggest, astir epic performances:

The TT Brothers

Oscar Stembridge

Sebastian & Sonia

Attraction Juniors Shadow Artists

Boss Baby Brody

Erica Rhodes

New Menudo

Young Min

ET spoke with the judges on the AGT red carpet up of the play 19 audition rounds, and they opened up astir why giving each of them a 2nd Golden Buzzer is a existent crippled changer.

"Talent is subjective. When you enactment a vocalist adjacent to a dancer, adjacent to a information act, next to a magician -- they each request their ain buzzer!" Crews shared. "I conscionable deliberation it's perfect! And I've said this before, AGT is consistently evolving... [and] it's getting amended each clip a caller improvement comes out."

Cowell -- who created AGT and besides serves arsenic an enforcement shaper connected the bid -- came up with the thought for the 2nd Golden Buzzer, and explained to ET that the thought came to him erstwhile helium considered "the magnitude of clip and effort these radical enactment into this enactment and wherever this tin go."

"People alert successful from each implicit the world, arsenic good arsenic the American artists, and you are seeing the [amazing] things," Cowell gushed astir the magic of the show. "The 70 times I've conscionable gone, 'How did you travel up with that idea?!' That's what I emotion astir the show, you know? It continues to astonishment you."

America's Got Talent airs Tuesdays astatine 8 p.m. ET/PT connected NBC.

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