Covers That Left Judges SPEECHLESS | AGT 2025

Hello, oh, thank you so much. And what's your name? My name is Cole Swenson How old are you Cole? I'm 23. Okay. Is this what you do full-time or do you have another job? I played smaller venues around LA for the past four years Yeah, but it's my dream to be on stages like this and this is just an opportunity. I'm so grateful for so, thank you Okay, no more questions. Let's do it. Okay. Well a large Reason of why I pursue music is because of my mom She she gave up her career and her dream of music and I am able to take her place So she's gonna be here playing with me Okay, what's your mom's name? Judy, where are you Judy? Come on, Judy Hello, Judy How are you Judy? Good happy Good let's do it I used to Seize what arise when I came now in the morning. I sleep alone Sweep the streets. I used to one minute The key Next to the walls, they closed on me. I discovered that my castle stands Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand here to Listen there reason a foreign field for some reason I know St. Peter won't call my name Be my me or my sword my shield Missionaries in a foreign field for some reason I know St. Peter won't call my name And we'll rule this world Really distinctive tone in your voice and you controlled it and you sail through that song and you made it your own You know You took a song that I love and I love your rendition as much and to see love Emulated on the stage like that My heart is just exploding it was beautiful It was beautiful It was like amazing to see you know a family come together and the love that you guys have between each other and I would I got really like emotional. Thank you. You've got Oh, I think this would have been a really good audition on your own Judy would have been Really good audition If you had just sang this on your own however with your mom It was a great audition Way more interesting and actually made you in my opinion very cool to do that Because you're not following the herd you're doing what you want to do and that makes you stand out I loved it really loved it Howie yes Absolutely, yes You go for yeses congratulations Oh Nice people, you know, it was funny When you win you are following your own path and she turned the mother turned to him and when I told you Hello, how's it going good? Welcome to America's Got Talent. Thank you so much. What's your name? Benjamin Hightower? Tell us a little bit about yourself. Yeah, I was in I was active-duty military for seven years. I Service you And I made the really scary choice to get out of the military and take a chance on myself because I believe in my ability To be a performer great Benjamin the stage is yours I know You wanted me to stay No, that's crazy And I heard with boys and girls can all be queens every single day Having wicked dreams of leaving, Tennessee Santa Monica, that's where it's calling me I'm no, she's gonna scream And you dance at the club On the stage in my heels Been too good to me any dance at the club He Great choice of music Chaperone and that song is is is great But I think that also could be a hit your rendition of her song. It was beautiful. It was great I do want to say to I'm from Tennessee and my mom is right there. So there's Sofia what did you think? I loved it. It was amazing. It was like I mean the perfect audition This is what you're supposed to be doing I mean they loved you. I love you. I think everyone here on the table. Love you. I think America's gonna love you You've got a certain raspiness and vibrato I haven't really heard before and your whole look and energy is fire. So I loved it. I really like you I Really do I think your whole story is like really interesting when I saw the keyboards I thought oh god, it's gonna be something like stand by me or something. We've heard a Billion times, you know, and it wasn't when you do somebody else's song and you make it your version That's smart. I love that song. I love your version And I don't know. I just there's something about you. I really like I think you've got a great heart Thank you so much Sophia Simon, I really like that. Yes Yes How are you Be good. Good. Nice to meet you. And who are you please? We are a band called Girish and the Chronicles all the way from Sikkim, India How long have you been a band for oh now it's been almost 16 years Yeah, it's been quite some time When you were thinking about coming on the show, was it was there any point where you thought I'm not sure we should do this Well, yeah a lot of times actually, I think the environment is something completely new Absolutely awesome and crazy Well, no more questions. Good luck. Thank you so much audition What it is about you, but I think you're one of my favorite acts so far this The other side of the globe and do something which is so traditionally American What can't fake a reaction behind us the audience is real They liked you we liked you and your voice is really really good by the way Okay, we're gonna vote Howie yes Thank you Sophia Welcome to a GT How are you I Am great. Ah, what's your name? My name is Jordan blue I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana How are you Jordan? I'm 23. Tell me or tell us a little bit about you Growing up my mom was a cop. My dad was a lawyer. So naturally I was a rebel And I kind of got myself into some trouble and ended up Living with my grandpa and he's a big music listener and that inspired me to get into it I started street performing in New Orleans because I really wanted to just fully dive into it And as you might remember At the beginning of the year there was an attack on New Orleans right on the exact block where I perform Sorry, are you serious? It just It made me realize that there's so much more to live for Yeah That's what made me choose a GT I feel like this is the best way to level up So there's a lot of steak here well We always say on this show two minutes literally can change your life, right? It's a good luck Just bring to God that I don't believe Cuz I got time while she's got free Don't break it Her best days will be some of my She finally met a man who's gonna put her Cuz I'm wide awake she's no trouble sleep Cuz when I don't make even And what am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're okay? I'm falling to be You got his heart in my heart and none of the pain you took your suitcase, I'll take the blame I'll try to make sense of a little remain Cuz you left me with no love and no Still alive, but I'm barely breathing Cuz when I'm rich, no, it don't bring no we don't bring no we don't break To say when I'm all choked up and you're okay To be In love with you The hair the boys your energy your rock star You know what? It was like I was hearing that song for the first time Which is really hard to do with such a popular song, but your tone and the way that you delivered that song was Not only pitch-perfect, but everything perfect Jordan. It really was You know, what's so interesting Jordan, I think you are somebody Maybe lost their way a little bit But like you said through music has now found your way, but you have such a distinctive voice You are so cool and you feed off the audience. I love you and How you made me feel just then was actually Amazing seriously amazing Loved it loved it Yeah You know, this is the season 20. I've seen dreams come true right where you're standing lives change right where you're standing and That stage and that moment can take you anywhere This is just the beginning I Lift up everybody watching this across the globe. That's my girlfriend and my newborn son Oh my gosh So tell us all about you the name of the group you're back how you come together we want to hear everything Oh, I'm Dre Dre T and I'm Mario. We're City Limits With three brothers from Chattanooga, Tennessee, we're twins Currently currently living in Atlanta, Georgia right now 12 siblings and all five five girls and seven boys same mom and dad We're just so excited to just perform for y'all and be here. It's amazing, man We watched y'all as kids growing up and me and Mariana crazy mage is a GT So tell us Why he came on the show and what is the kind of the big vision here? It's to be one of the biggest groups in the world like we want to be up there with them big names good for you I really mean that Before we start I just want to let y'all know this right here is dedicated to Mel B for me No more questions It's all up to you now. Good luck And you are the only one Then I finally found you You feel the same way You're all that I ever know We smile you pick me up when I was I pray to someone like you You Yes, I pray that you do Who you are we should go to the person on the panel who can sing Howie now, I'm kidding Kidding God it was kind of a joke Mel. Can I ask you was you feeling a bit nervous? We really was nervous. I ain't gonna lie in the last hour. I probably done peed a time Well, you know what I'm rooting for you I want you to succeed your harmonies, you know your stuff well done Come to this stage is so meaningful it gives me like something, you know in my heart. I really thank you for coming tonight Nothing better than working with a band that works because obviously your brothers, you know, you've got this Natural chemistry anyway, I really like Y'all feel like my family I feel the camaraderie I feel the brotherhood They were good by the way, they were very good and let's not forget it was dedicated to me I think they were told to say that Hey, what's your name? My name is Chase Barnes. And how old are you Chase? I'm 13 years old 13 years old Wow Who you here with? My mom and my dad and got family and friends in the back Tell me a little bit about yourself Well, I'm 13 years old I live on a farm are you involved in the farming not much Yeah, so I've been drumming since I was four. Yeah, and Recently about two years ago. I taught myself how to play guitar And what is the dream The dream is to play on a world stage and make people happy Are you nervous? Yeah, for sure. Good luck young man. Thank you And just because I didn't meet you Doesn't mean I don't miss Do this, um, I didn't love the song I Like you have you got another song, okay Our sweetest I'm sorry. I need you now. So tell me If you leave me now Here's a car and go You know, you remind me of a young Justin Bieber I Mean, I know it's nerve-wracking to be on this stage But I thought that it was better the second song Simon always knows how to stop it and make it better I think the girls are gonna go crazy I mean chase you're 13, right? Yes. You you were great. You're a diamond in the rough You have so much potential, but I can see your nervousness. You're not quite there yet for me Let me start voting. It's a yes I think give yourself another year then come back when you're more confident Simon what do you think? Sometimes we have people on your age and I'm kind of like, okay, I'll be sort of nicer because you're young You I actually do believe that you have some So you've got everything going for you right and the audience loved you Which is why you're gonna get three yeses Welcome Nice to meet you. Well, actually I know a little bit about you already actually because I know your mom We know his mom because I said hello where there in the front row you make it sound like you're friends forever I do make friends forever. I just like your mom. Anyway, welcome and you're so happy. My name is Chuck Adams Okay, welcome Chuck Adams. Tell us about you Chuck Let's see if this thing started as a child Went quickly to a kind of a record deal that happened pretty quickly That went that went south like a lot of them do yeah, and then I just I just kept going and the next thing You know, it's 10 12 years later. Wow, and I have someone like my mother who? Has been asking me to do this show for a decade at least because she's friends with Simon because she's for the Sun That's for you mom Okay, and how are you? I'm from 40 years old It came it came fast Good okay, let's do it Give up forever touch No, they feel some You're the closest heaven that I'll ever be and I don't want to go No No, like rejoice sooner later is so I just don't want to miss you now And you can't fight tears Or the moment true thing when everything feels like I Felt great man felt great I really like you. I like your vibe. There's a vibe about you. That is kind of this relaxed Maybe it's the fact that you're turning 40 years old You've been doing it and you know who you are now more than you did when you had your record deal Thank you You're a great performer great singer great guitarist player, but I think today Nerves threw you off. Okay. There's so much more that I know you can give Okay, but I mean you had me at the first strumming of your guitar thing just saying Like you can go very far in this competition If this was about giving you confidence This absolutely works Presence about you If you can reinterpret a song in a way that we've never heard before Then it goes from here to there because you don't to worry about your voice or your stage presence because you've got that I like you Okay, yes Okay, now you've got four yeses I'm actually here surprising my daughter No She thinks we're here for a VIP experience in the audience, but I nominated Anna to audition here today Audition I would oh my god, so you had no idea Hang on a second, but first of all, can I have your names, please? Anna you're Anna and your mom's name is Carrie, right? Tell us the story both of you, please last year Anna decided she wanted to make a girl of music and she asked me to get her some gigs around town and Anna you've just found out Your mom's done. How do you feel right now? America's Got Talent 21 years old Gaithersburg, Maryland, so East Coast you prepared anything To be fair, I do think you should have a couple of minutes to prepare Yeah, why don't you just go backstage truffle your mom and then you can come back on the stage Well, otherwise, no one's gonna believe this I don't like to see her just come out and sing what you mean a cappella No, because it's hard to sing when you're that emotional And Anna come on over come on over and mom Listen, okay. You got your mic. You had your time to prepare. How do you feel right now without enough time? Okay, it's time it's time Welcome back. Hi everyone again. Well, you must have had an interesting few minutes. Yes What song did you decide sing I Decided to sing make you feel my love because I always dedicate it to my mom. So I thought it was a full circle moment Okay Good luck Thank you, she's so nervous, yeah I could all for you To make you feel my I hate to do this. I think that song is a bit boring He doesn't agree with me No, I really want this to work for you. Do you have a second song? Yeah my church, I Know this is a lot of pressure, but you got it in you. Let's hear the other song I'm falling down from grace a few too many times But I find holy redemption When I put this car in drive roll the windows down and turn up the time Can I get a Can I get My Sophia Simon always is right. I know it was like nerve-wracking to be stopping the middle of a song But what usually when he does that is because he knows there's potential and you definitely definitely have potential. Thank you Okay now Well, first of all, I want to commend you because you were put in a tricky situation, right? You were in the audience thinking you were just having a VIP experience for America's Got Talent. This is the ultimate Performing on stage I think you've got a great beautiful voice Few more years you'd be able to walk on this stage and smash it. But today I wasn't really feeling it I'm sorry. I See that you're worthy of being on season 20 of a beautiful voice and this is a great audition Okay, we're gonna vote Howie. It's definitely yes, you deserve another shot. Thank you. Yeah now Come on, come on. I'm sorry. I'm gonna have to say no. I'm sorry I'm gonna say yes. I think you deserve another chance. I Think most people put in your position would have just ran That you were willing to take the challenge It showed that you've got guts and I really really like you. So I'm saying Yes Potential Your mom out there, which is so beautiful Anna. Thank you for being here. Thank you so much You