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Mzansi Youth Choir is making everyone’s hearts warm and eyes teary.

Taking the stage on the latest season of America’s Got Talent, the Soweto-based songsters left not only the judges and the audience in awe, but the whole entire world.

With an emotional and heartwarming tribute to Jane “Nightbirde” Marczewski, an AGT contestant who succumbed to her battle with cancer after four years, Mzansi Youth Choir made Simon Cowell completely emotional.

Chocking on his feelings, Simon said he knows “how much this would have meant to her,” adding that right to the end she was passionately sharing her music and spreading her positivity despite the pain of cancer in her body.

The South African choir singing her song ‘It’s Ok’ was a wonderful way to pay homage to an inspiring artist and ended up being so moving that for the first time in the history of AGT, the Golden Buzzer was awarded by the audience, notes Good Things Guy.

The choir’s music director, Sidumo Nyamezele, explains this profound honour:

“During every new season of ‘America’s Got Talent’, each of the four judges and the host are given one opportunity to press the Golden Buzzer for any act they liked most during the series. For every season there is also one Group Golden Buzzer. That one Golden Buzzer allows the participant to move straight to the semi-final rounds.

For the first time in the 18th season 2023, an Audience Group Buzzer was introduced to the former Group Buzzer: all four of the judges, the host in the wings as well as the audience representative come together, put their hands on top of one another and press the Golden Buzzer simultaneously. This is the first season where the Audience Golden Buzzer was introduced, and Mzansi Youth Choir made history by receiving nothing less than all six Golden Buzzers simultaneously”.

Watch Mzansi Youth Choir’s moving performance with tissues at hand:

The choir was deeply inspired by Nightbirde’s story and her uplifting message of resilience in the face of adversity:

In August 2021, Jane withdrew from the 16th season of the competition show after sharing on Instagram that her health had “taken a turn for the worse” since auditioning — an announcement that came after that viral performance of her original song.

She died on 19 February 2022.

Mzansi Youth Choir’s AGT participation is the choir’s most significant highlight and milestone on its memorable journey, which began in the modest Old City Hall of Alberton in 2003.

Now, they’re about to soar to great new heights, just watch.

[source:goodthingsguy]