Mandy Harvey has one of the most incredible stories we’ve ever heard on America’s Got Talent and her amazing audition totally deserved that golden buzzer!
The 29-year-old singer lost hearing in both of her ears when she was 18 due to a degenerative ear disease while she was a freshman in college and pursuing music.
Mandy had to leave the music program and teach herself how to sing again using muscle memorization and feeling the vibration of the music with her feet.
She performed a beautiful original song that she wrote called “Try” and brought the audience to tears.
Judge Simon Cowell used his golden buzzer to send Mandy straight to the live shows and he called the audition “one of the most amazing things I have ever seen and heard.”
Normani Kordei and Val Chmerkovskiy Tango to “Quizas, Quizas, Quizas” by Andrea Bocelli ft. Jennifer Lopez on Dancing with the Stars’ Season 24 Movie Night!
Céline Dion did work, work, work, work, work on “The Tonight Show” Thursday, July 21.
During a game of “Musical Impressions,” the singer broke out a little bit of Cher and Michael Jackson, but pulled out all the stops when Rihanna came up.
(Come Mr. DJ song pon de replay.)
Dion sang “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” to the tune of Rihanna’s “Work” before reaching her final form and twerking.
It’s not necessarily a staccato twerk, but we’ll give it to her.
(P.S. This post doesn’t even mention Dion’s Sia impression. This one’s all about the twerk, twerk, twerk, twerk, twerk.)
Jimmy challenges Céline to a game of random musical impressions, such as Sia singing “Hush, Little Baby.”
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Adele Plays Hilarious ‘Box of Lies’ Game with Jimmy Fallon!
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
This clip has a little NSFW language because Adele might not be the best loser
On Monday, November 23, 2015 (while promoting her new “25” CD album), Adele stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for some fun and games because life can’t be all sad songs.
And while she is an AMAZING singer, she’s not the best at Box of Lies, the game where you get points by fooling your opponent and being able to tell if he or she is telling the truth.
When Fallon came out on top, Adele let out an expletive because she’d been waiting for this moment her whole life!
Take a look!
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I finally watched the Grammy’s which I had DVR’d. I think it was an amazing show in so many ways. Many different genres were represented. I saw people that I didn’t even know.
Kinda sad to sad that most of those mentioned in the “In Memoriam” section I knew
(that tells me a lot!)
Glad to see new talent recognized.
One of the performances that impressed me was Lady Gaga’s tribut to David Bowie.
Indeed, who else could have channeled this awesome talent lost early this year?
Lady Gaga’s David Bowie Tribute at the Grammy’s Was Fabulously, Perfectly Weird
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Could anyone else have paid homage to David Bowie?
Channeling Ziggy Stardust, Lady Gaga saluted the icon at the Grammy’s the only way that fit: with unapologetic weirdness and glee.
How can there be a successor to someone so singular, so unique, so impossible to pinpoint and unabashedly weird – all the while so undeniably genius.
Lady Gaga may not be the next David Bowie.
But if anyone can approximate the mood, the message, the spirit, and the stirring camp as the recently deceased icon, it’s the human and the alien in our Mother Monster, Lady Gaga.
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It’s a testament to how fiercely we possess our affection for David Bowie that Gaga’s big, ambitious tribute at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards, February 15, was met with such polarizing reaction on Twitter. For everyone 140-character fawning over Gaga’s tenacity and extraterrestrial talent in the loving salute, others found her drag and kitsch to border on blasphemous.
Of course, poking and prodding outrage and testing our tolerance for performance was a habit of Bowie’s. It’s fitting that such a raucous homage to his legacy at the Grammy Awards by the pop star with the most experience in the realm of instigating and provoking would elicit the same kind of reaction.
Let’s be clear, though. No one but Lady Gaga could have performed this tribute.
For sheer significance, there is no other artist today who engages with such glee the orchestration of new personas and the reinvention of identity.
She started with a stirring, technically precise few bars of “Space Oddity,” lighting effects washing some of the most iconic Bowie images over her face.
She then sped through a dizzying medley of Bowie’s hits. “Changes,” “Ziggy Stardust,” “Suffragette City,” “Let’s Dance,” “Heroes,” and more: each one stoking an eruption of giddy applause from the audience, each one fading to the next hit all-too-quickly – Gaga barely had time to get into the groove before it was on to the next.
She peacocked and pranced and strutted and boogied. Her vocals were flawless. Her wardrobe channeled Ziggy Stardust, the performance styled to the Aladdin Sane album. There were robotic legs, a dancing mechanical keyboard, and psychedelic lights.
And there was Bowie.
There was Bowie’s joy. His exuberant weirdness. There was scale and spectrum and ambition, all of it at once scattershot and meticulous.
It was queer and cheesy and 100 percent committed by Gaga.
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