Blind Indonesian Teen Has ‘Angel’ Voice, Wins Golden Buzzer on ‘AGT’ – Billboard

It’s shaping up as a golden season of America’s Got Talent, if the early motion is something to go by.

As the second week of auditions rumbled on Tuesday evening (June 6), armchair viewers all over the place had been launched to Putri Ariani, a gifted teenage singer from Indonesia. It wasn’t a lot an introduction, however a lesson in pure expertise.

The 17-year-old is blind, an impediment she overcomes when she’s performing. “When I’m singing I feel like a superstar,” she mentioned within the preamble.

Putri selected the appropriate purpose, and the appropriate time to make her first journey to America. “My dream is to become the biggest diva in the world, like Whitney Houston, and win a Grammy Award,” she advised the viewers. “I hope I can win America’s Got Talent so I can reach my dream.”

With her dad and mom watching on within the wings, the teenager stored the dream alive with a efficiency of an unique tune. Playing the piano, Putri melted hearts along with her ballad, which she balanced with perfect-pop tones, vocal maturity and unreal management.

As the gang roared to its toes, Simon Cowell leapt from his chair, headed for the stage and launched himself to Putri. At his request, “because he enjoyed Putri’s voice so much,” she carried out a second tune, “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word.” The contestant devoted the Elton John and ‎Bernie Taupin basic to Cowell.

There could possibly be little doubt: the child has received it.

“My god,” is how Cowell summed it up. He spoke for everybody, as the gang stood as one and applauded.

There had been tears on stage, and off it, as Sofia Vergara remarked “we were all mesmerized by you. Your voice, you’re an angel.”

Howie Mandel adopted up, “a lot of people don’t believe in angels, but I think one just landed on our stage. You’re a superstar.”

“You sounded so beautiful tonight,” remarked Heidi Klum.

As regular, Cowell saved his ideas for final. “I think we’re all feeling the same thing,” he defined. “You’re 17, you write songs, you’ve got an amazing distinctive voice, and I mean really, really good. You have a kind of a glow about you.”

There was a glow coming from the rafters, too, as Cowell triggered the Golden Buzzer. It’s the second glittering prize in as many weeks, following South Africa’s Mzansi Youth Choir’s impressed tribute to the late AGT album, Nightbirde.

Watch Putri’s efficiency beneath.