Shaheen Jafargholi: 12 Year Old Singer – Britain’s Got Talent 2009
LONDON, England (CNN) — Move over Susan Boyle. A week after the Scottish woman became a global sensation following a barnstorming audition on “Britain’s Got Talent,” a 12-year-old Welsh boy with a Motown voice has been hailed for his “life-changing” performance on the TV show after earning a standing ovation from Simon Cowell.
Shaheen Jafargholi’s prospects looked bleak when the infamously hard to impress Cowell brought the audition to an abrupt halt just one verse into his rendition of “Valerie,” the Zutons song covered by Amy Winehouse.
“You’ve got this really wrong,” Cowell told him. “What do you sing apart from that?”
Jafargholi instead offered to perform “Who’s Loving You,” written by Smokey Robinson and performed by a young Michael Jackson with the Jackson Five, bringing screams of delight from the audience as he launched into a note-perfect rendition that brought a beaming Cowell and fellow judges Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden to their feet.
Source: CNN.com
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Posted: April 20th, 2009 under General.
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