America’s Got Talent 2024: Meet the acts appearing on Auditions Week 2
America’s Got Talent season 19 continues to Auditions Week 2 on Tuesday, June 3. Find out which acts will appear to compete for the $1 million prize.
Terry Crews hosts while Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum, Simon Cowell and Sofia Vergara sit on the judges panel.
This season, the Golden Buzzers expand. The audience and group buzzers are gone. But now each of the judges get TWO buzzers, while Terry holds on to his one. That’s nine golden buzzers in all!
America’s Got Talent 19 will have more Golden Buzzers Than Ever Before
The assorted acts include acrobats, dancers,a kid drummer, a singer who performed with Prince, an outdoor drone act and more. Meet them all below.
Awesome contestant research by Blake Busch
America’s Got Talent airs on NBC Tuesdays at 8 pm ET/PT. Next day streaming on Peacock.
Alex Zinger – Dancer
Not much information on this contestant as a dancer. BUT it’s clear he’s the man in this real estate profile for Zillow. Twenty-one years experience! Wow! And he dances too. He’s also a financial planner for Infiniti Management, according to this profile.
Ashes & Arrows – Country rock band
Ashes & Arrows is a country rock band from Asheville, North Carolina where they often perform. Since 2022, they have released music including “Back To Your Body” which has over 300K streams on Spotify. They also have built a solid Tik Tok following with 195K followers including a video of their song “On The Run” showcasing the group’s harmonies, racking up 2.5 million views and 304.1K likes.
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Bao Cuong – Danger act
Bao is from Vietnam, and was a Semifinalist on Asia’s Got Talent Season 1 in 2015 with a danger act that involves injecting different objects very far into his nose. With the act being pretty gross, he often received buzzes including two in the Semifinals.
Cata & Jay – Acrobatics/Unicycle
Cata & Jay perform acrobatic routines on a unicycle. They are based in Belgium and perform at different venues across Belgium and the world.
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Open Soireé Circus Dagen Performance:
Chrisyus Whitehead – Kid drummer
Chrisyus is a 5 year old drummer from Tallahassee, Florida. At 4 years old, he had a video of himself performing Superstitious by Stevie Wonder on the drums go viral on Tik Tok, It racked up 13.9 million views and 1.1 million likes. His family is talented as well with his siblings and parents being featured in some of the Tik Tok videos on the page. They have built a following of 174K on Tik Tok.
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Hakuna Matata Acrobatic
Hakuna Matata Acrobatic is a group from Tanzania with years of experience dating back to their 2003 beginnings. The group mixes balancing in pyramid formation with rolla bolla, dancing and more. They have performed around the world.
Liv Warfield – Singer
Liv is an accomplished singer and performer who was a part of Prince’s New Power Generation. She toured with Prince in 2015 for his Hit N Run tour. The singer also led Roadcase Royale, a band formed by Heart’s Nancy Wilson who she also has shared the stage with. Liv has been featured on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show, and her song “Stay (Soul Lifted) has 527K streams on Spotify.
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NiNi – Folk Metal
NiNi is a musician from Taiwan who plays folk metal music. She plays several Chinese traditional instruments including the Zhong Ruan, Liuqin, San Xian, and Pipa. Her song “Longma” has 695K streams, and she has 403K followers on Tik Tok. NiNi has a number of viral performances including her performance of “Zombie” in the folk metal style on Tik Tok. It racked up 76K likes and 688K views.
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Phillip Lewis – Baton twirler
Phillip Lewis is a baton twirler from the Salt Lake City, Utah area. He has been involved and a cast member in a number of local theater productions. His baton twirling involves dancing and is very high energy.
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Sabrina – Dance group
Sabrina is an all women dance crew from Japan who placed 2nd place in the World Division of World of Dance in 2023. They also won the team division of World of Dance Tokyo 2023. Check out their audition preview HERE.
Sky Elements – Drone art
Sky Elements is an outdoor act from North Richland Hills, Texas that involves drones that light up. They have 219K Instagram followers and have had some viral behind the scenes drone videos on Tik Tok, one which has 279K likes and 2.8 million views. They do private events across the U.S. and internationally, and they have 6 Guinness World Records involving drones. The show will move the action outside as the drones pay tribute to AGT.
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The Otama Collective – Otamatone musicians
The Otama Collective is made up of Taylor, Nelson, and Sully who are otamatone players. Collectively, they have a large following, but the group itself appears to be new. Nelson has 228K followers on Instagram and Sully has 491.5K followers on Tik Tok. Nelson’s cover of “Bring Me to Life” on Instagram has 1.4 million likes and 33.5 million views. Sully’s comedic McDonald’s Grimace Shake themed video has 837K likes and 15.3 million views on Tik Tok.
