Golden Buzzer: Mzansi Youth Choir's Emotional Tribute Brings Simon To Tears | Auditions | AGT 2023

You're welcome, tell us who you are please, my name is Zoe and we are the Mzansi Youth Choir from Soweto Johannesburg in South Africa. Tell me about the

choir

, how did it start? Tell me everything, well, it's a little sad. story but it has a great ending of course ok exactly 20 years ago our founders Yani and Marina Simon were kidnapped and to this surprise they did it young and then they saw this as an opportunity to change young lives and then they started this

choir

. Wow, and why did you decide to end America's Got Talent this year?

Because America's Got Talent is the largest talent competition in the world and it's time to inspire and give hope to people. Oh, thanks for saying that, okay, we're ready. I'm rooting for you, good luck. I moved to California in the summer. It was just a matter of time. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I wrote a hundred pages. It's okay, it's okay. okay okay okay thank you what a wonderful

tribute

to a beautiful person wow omg omg omg for anyone who doesn't know we lost a very very special person from our AGT family your name is Jane her nickname was nightbird and she sang the song so it has a very special meaning in my heart it was really beautiful thank you thank you what a surprise to hear that song and your voices are fantastic that was the perfect ADT audition I will always remember Nightbird and seeing that moved people on the other side of the world.

Incredible, you deserve much more than a yes and being here you deserve a thank you. Thank you so much. Channels. Why did you decide to sing that song when we hear the night birds sing the song in this setting? We were very inspired and moved by her story and decided to record the song to our surprise, she responded so beautifully that this song has been a pillar of strength for us as a choir in difficult times, we just want to continue the legacy and that's why. we chose this, thank you, this brought back so many memories, god, it was oh oh, okay, it's hard.

Just give me a second. I know how much this would have meant to her. She would be until the end. I have so much passion for sharing her music and this has spread around the world and you have returned here with the most incredible

tribute

. It was simply impressive. Honestly, I want to suggest something we've never done before but have always discussed. day giving the audience some foreign honor oh no, you can tell everyone, you, the

golden

buzzer

of the fifth judge, the AGD, that was the most beautiful thing I have ever heard in my life, you have no idea.