The acts performing are ANICA, Brooke Simpson, ChapKidz, Keith Apicary, Klek Entos, Léa Kyle, Michael Winslow, Rialcris, The Curtis Family C-Notes, UniCircle Flow, World Taekwondo Demonstration Team, and one of these five Wild Card contestants—Dylan Zangwill, Matt Mauser, Mike Goodwin, Patrick Kun, or Storm Large—will take to the America’s Got Talent stage in hopes of making it to the semifinals. The Live Shows have had mixed results to date with Night One having several excellent performances, but Night Two only having a few. Parade.com had the chance to speak with host Terry Crews to get him to pick the leading contenders to date as he sees them. “I think Victory Brinker is [the one to beat],” Terry said. “Nine years old with a voice like that! That powerhouse voice was absolutely standout gorgeous and amazing, but also when you turn around, I also see Jimmie Herrod, who sings a different style, now you’re talking about taste. Is it the people who like classical, or the people who like Broadway [who will cast the winning votes]? It’s going to be a battle of tastes as it gets down to the wire.” Both Victory and Jimmie are Golden Buzzers. Victory got all four judges and Terry to hit the Golden Buzzer for her, and Jimmie Herrod is judge Sofia Vergara’s Golden Buzzer, and as Terry pointed out, he is a standout singer. Terry’s Golden Buzzer, the Taekwondo Demonstration Team, will perform tonight, as will Heidi Klum’s Léa Kyle. Howie Mandel’s Northwell Health Nurse Choir already made it into the semifinals, and, unfortunately, Simon Cowell’s Nightbirde had to withdraw from the competition due to health issues. But it isn’t just the Golden Buzzers who are doing well. Terry was also impressed by several of the comedians, including last week’s performance by Josh Blue. “I think when you look at the first two weeks of Lives, the comedians are doing really, really well simply because I believe that America and the world needs to laugh,” he said. “We have not had a lot of comedy lately and we’re hungry to laugh, or hungry to release that tension and just to enjoy hearing each other laugh together. It was really great to see the Dolby Theater burst out in loud guffaws with Josh Blue’s comedy. It was really, really special. It was something to see.” In addition, both Terry and Simon have nothing but praise for 16-year-old, aerial act Aidan Bryant from Virginia. “You’re talking about a man who basically learned in his backyard over the pandemic this last two years how to do what he’s doing, and now here he is on the Live Show stage,” Terry said. “He could actually be in a Las Vegas show literally now. I just thought it’s an amazing thing for a teenager to put the phone down and actually go in the backyard and do the work. That was the biggest surprise. He did great in the auditions, and he stepped it up like tenfold here at the Lives. I was so proud.” Terry, is of course, hoping World Taekwando Demonstration Team will also make it to the semifinals after tonight’s performance, and what he especially appreciated about their audition – and what inspired him to press the Golden Buzzer – was it was something that had never been seen on the AGT stage before. “To me, AGT is all about the diversity, the styles, the age differences, and the cultural differences,” he says. “It’s absolutely incredible. You’ve never have a show like this. There’s never a show that has this much to offer to anyone.” America’s Got Talent airs performance shows on Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT and results shows on Wednesday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. Next,Find Out Who Went Home and Who Made It Through from Live Shows Night Two on America’s Got Talent
