Rafferty Coope Wins Ksi's Golden Buzzer for Magical Act! | Auditions | Bgt 2026

Hey, what's your name? I'm Rafferty Coop Rafferty. Yeah, it's a tongue twister. Okay. Uh, who'd you come with? I've come with my whole family which they're supporting me How old are you? I'm 16 years old Yeah, i'm six foot four though. What that's greedy man sharing around the rest of us rafferty Do people ask you to get things from the tops of shelves? That's my job. Yeah So do you think you could win the whole show Um, I mean I would like to hope so okay, um But no, I guess That's why i'm here. That's some confidence. Yes. Yes That's it. That's more What are you gonna do for us today? Well, i'm gonna be showing you my two passions in life, which are music and magic nice Okay Let's do it I believe that there's magic music Wanna bite? Yeah, it's yours Thank you Simon yes, just like you. I love music. He's talking to simon cowell and I listen to it all the time do these things Music isn't just in here It's everywhere Sounds incredible because it can pass through solid objects, but we can't see it happening But imagine if we could simon, can you place out your left hand for me face up and keep it nice and strong? If we could see sound passing through a solid object I think it would look something like this Now do you see why I find sound so cool It's good. I like this music of magic whenever we're down music is always the thing that can pick us up and sometimes It can lift more than just our mood See that's the magic of music That was very good alicia as you know rhythm is everything really my first instrument was the mighty egg shaker Have a go Well, how long have you been playing since I was born Rhythm brings a tune to life. It's the heartbeat without it It's nothing How did you do that? Simon, can you pass that glass to me? Well that broke the silence Ksi I've got a deck of cards here. They're all different, right? Yes, and on the back i've written different letters Can you please lift off anywhere you want? Yeah, just any anywhere you want. Oh, yeah Thank you and pick up that pile and do several cards onto the table This that's perfect, that's perfect now, I don't want to touch the cards Yes, but we're going to put them in order from smallest to largest. Okay Oh, I like this game But there's two tens. Oh, yeah, actually separate. Okay Now I told you all that I believe there's magic in music and tonight I would like to prove it. You see I see cards like notes on a piano There are 13 cards in a suit and 13 notes in an octave I've labeled some keys here Ksi, we're gonna use your randomly selected playing cards to play a melody. This is gonna sound awful Can you please just read out the value of the card? ace Three three five five eight eight ten ten Queen queen Ten ten. Okay one more time a bit faster. Okay ace three five eight ten queen ten sounds a bit random, but listen ace Three five eight journey ten queen ten He's very good Don't stop believing believe Ksi remember there are letters in the back of those cards. Could you turn them over one at a time? No left and right Wait Oh was incredible It was just it was so good Lovely boy, you've done a great job I could see how much all of it meant to you. We've never seen anything like that. So well done really good Thank you so much, man. Thank you Honestly, you're just you're 16 years old and you're a bright light Your showmanship is spectacular and there's something very charming about you seriously spectacular Take this moment enjoy with your family Oh my god, how'd you feel? It's been his dream since five years old you just made his dream come true. Thank you