America's Got Talent named a brand new winner Wednesday throughout a star-studded season 20 finale: Jessica Sanchez, who walks away from the truth TV competitors with $1 million.

Sanchez received after a number of rounds of competitors, hundreds of thousands of votes from the general public, and championing from judges Mel B, Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel, and Sofia Vergara, who beforehand awarded Sanchez a Golden Buzzer after her shifting audition with Benson Boone's "Lovely Issues."

"That is superb," Sanchez mentioned when host Terry Crews introduced her title.

Sanchez had lengthy stood out, for her voice, sure, but in addition as a result of she was very pregnant — 9 months within the finals, she mentioned — and since she'd been on the present earlier than. She mentioned earlier than stepping onto the stage that, when she was solely 10, she auditioned for the very first season of the present in 2006.

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The judges have been joyful to see her again. In addition to Vergara, Cowell famous within the semifinals that he's heard Sanchez was too sick to carry out simply earlier than she left him "blown away" with Alex Warren's "Abnormal." She sang Girl Gaga and Bruno Mars' "Die With a Smile" within the last spherical.

Now in its twentieth season, the judges had repeatedly informed all of the contestants that they wanted to step up their recreation. However, in the long run, it was what viewers thought that mattered. They have been those who voted on these last performances and selected the brand new champion.

Singers Jourdan Blue and Leo Excessive College Choir, in addition to freestyle rapper Chris Turner and LED dance group LightWire have been the final 5 standing. LightWire got here in fifth, Leo completed fourth, Blue in third, and freestyle rapper Chris Turner in second.

Earlier than that, rappers Mama Duke and Micah Palace, aerial duo Sirca Marea, "Blackgrass Brothercana" musician Steve Ray Ladson, and dancers Staff Recycled have been known as onstage solely to be eradicated.

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Richard Goodall, who received the final season of the present, was one of many many performers who took the stage on the season finale. Leona Lewis, Aloe Blacc, Ciara, and Manuel Turizo have been among the many different stars who appeared.

In truth, many of the episode was full of celebrities, together with some performing together with the finalists, together with Lewis' ethereal collaboration with LightWire.

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