The America’s Got Talent Season 19 grand final got underway on Tuesday night (September 17) as the ten finalists took to the stage to perform for the penultimate time before next week’s live vote reveal.
Those ten acts competing for America’s votes were the Hakuna Matata Acrobats, dance groups AIRFOOTWORKS and Brent Street, singers Richard Goodall and Dee Dee Simon, aerial duo Sebastián & Sonia, dog act Roni Sagi & Rhythm, comedian Learnmore Jonasi, quick change artist Solange Kardinaly, and drone group Sky Elements.
Each act gave it their all as they hoped to win the viewers’ votes, which will be revealed on the live two-hour season finale next Tuesday, September 24, at 9/8c on NBC.
The first act to perform was the Hakuna Matata Acrobats, who previously earned Sofia Vergara‘s Golden Buzzer to advance straight to the final. Despite a small slip in their first trick, the group performed a risk-taking routine which impressed the judges.
Next up was Brooklyn-based singer Dee Dee Simon, who performed a stunning rendition of Hozier’s “Take Me to Church.” The judges complimented her newfound confidence, with Simon Cowell telling her she showed “what it means to sing well.”
Sebastián & Sonia took to the stage next, performing for the first time as a duo since Sonia’s injury. While Sonia took on a more supporting role in the performance, the judges were still full of praise. Howie Mandel told the pair that they’d “raised the bar.”
Australian dance group Brent Street was up next with another incredible, prop-based performance. Mandel, who previously hit his Golden Buzzer for the group, told them they were the “Van Gogh of dancers.”
Next up was Solange Kardinaly, the quick change artist who makes all her own outfits. Cowell told Kardinaly that her combination of magic and quick change was “so unique and popular,” while Mandel said she should “have her own room in Vegas.”