America’s Got Talent 2024: Meet the acts appearing on Auditions Week 5
America’s Got Talent season 19 continues on to Auditions Week 5 air on Tuesday, July 2, two days before the American holiday 4th of July. Mostly, AGT takes the holiday week off. But losing three weeks to coverage of the Paris Olympics switched the schedule around.
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 dancers, roller skaters, a BUNCH of comedians, joke acts and a FAMOUS boy band that at one time merely replaced members as they aged out! And it appears that Heidi Klum will use her 2nd Golden Buzzer this week. Meet all the acts vying for the $1 million prize, below.
Terry Crews hosts while Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum, Simon Cowell and Sofia Vergara sit on the judges panel.
Awesome contestant research by Blake Busch
America’s Got Talent airs on NBC Tuesdays at 8 pm ET/PT. Next day streaming on Peacock.
A.merica’s G.olden T.iger and Owl Man – Tiger lady?
Who knows! It seems as if the tiger is a lady. They are wearing lipstick in any case.
Attraction Juniors – Shadow dance group
Attraction Juniors is a shadow dance group from Hungary that participated in Britain’s Got Talent Season 15 in 2022. They passed their audition but then failed to make it to the semifinals. Their adult group won BGT Season 7 in 2013.
Bboy Nana – Kid Bboy dancer
Bboy Nana is a 9 year-old Bboy champion kid dancer from Taiwan. One of his routines on Tik Tok went viral with 8.3 million views and 782K likes. He also received the golden buzzer this past year while participating on Romania’s Got Talent.
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Boss Baby Brody – Kid dancer
Brody Hudson Schaffer, also known as Boss Baby Brody, is an 8 year old dancer. He was recently featured on the Tamron Hall Show, and has been seen on a variety of outlets including Disney and Nickelodeon. He has 829K followers on Instagram, and his mom’s page City Girl Gone Mom has 556K followers on Instagram and 5.7 million followers on Tik Tok. A number of his videos of him dancing on both platforms have gone viral. His audition was previewed early.
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Chris Wilson – Comedian/Magician
Chris is a Canadian comedian, but based on press photos, he will be performing a magic routine. He was a featured cast member of Season 30 of This Hour Has 22 Minutes which is a sketch comedy shown on CBC. He was also an ensemble member of four Second City Mainstage shows in Toronto.
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Viral Video: (443K likes and 3.1 million likes)
Connett Croghan – Comedian
Connett is a comedian and voice actor from Los Angeles. He does a monthly show with Enor Bishop at Baby Battista Bar called “Boys Night Out” which explores masculine tropes. Many of his jokes are not family friendly and may need to be altered for the AGT audience.
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Erica Rhodes – Comedian
Erica is a comedienne from Massachusetts with 106K followers on Instagram. She has appeared on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion (before it ended due to allegations against Keillor) since the age of 13 and has appeared in a number of TV shows including Modern Family. Her Dry Bar routine titled “20 Year Olds Don’t Matter” racked up 2 million views and 37K likes.
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Dry Bar “20 Year Olds Don’t Matter” Special: (2 million views, 37K likes)
Goat vs Fish – Singing comedian
Goat vs. Fish is a parody singer and comedian who streams on the streaming platform, Twitch. Many of his jokes have to do with his name of goat vs. fish.
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Jollux – Beatboxer
Jollux is a 17-year-old beatboxer from Colombia with 126K followers on Instagram and several successful competition runs. He is a U18 World Beatbox Champion, placed top 16 in the Online World Beatbox Championship, and Top 8 in the US American Beatbox Founders competition. His video of making a House Drop by beatboxing has 1 million views and 123K likes on Instagram.
Instagram: (126K followers)
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Menudo – The famous Puerto Rican boy band
Menudo is an iconic Puerto Rican boy band which often had a rotating member list in its initial run from 1977-2009. It was the launching pad of singers like Ricky Martin. Three of their songs in the 1980s made the Billboard Hot 100. The new era of the group, who has been singing together since 2023, consists of Alejandro Querales, Ezra Gilmore, Gabriel Rossell, Andres Emilio Pirela, and Nicolas Calero. They released a music video to their song “Mi Amore” which has 5.5 million views on YouTube. They also released an EP this past week titled Party En California.
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Oscar Stembridge – Singer-songwriter
A Swedish indie singer-songwriter, Oscar’s song “Where Are You Now?” which was released in 2020 has nearly 1.3 million streams on Spotify. He played for the Swedish Royal Family in 2021, singing Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin” and the video racked up 880K views on YouTube.
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Swedish Royal Family Reaction to “Don’t Stop Believing” (879K views)
Owl Man – Owl!
No info to be found on Owl Man dude.
Pranysqa Mishra – Kid singer
Pranysqa is a talented 9 year-old singer who has performed National Anthems at a Miami Heat game and the U.S. Open in 2023. She has had a number of other regional appearances. She has also performed several times at the Apollo Theatre in New York, even winning the night in September of 2022 with a cover of Jennifer Holliday’s Dreamgirls hit “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.”
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Sebastian & Sonia – Aerial duo
Sebastián Jiménez and Sonia Moreno make up the aerial duo of Sebastian & Sonia. Their act involves aerial straps, dance, and aerial poles. They are currently a part of Lio in Ibiza Spain which is a cabaret group. The two had a routine go viral on Instagram, gaining 227K likes and 2.8 million views.
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Viral Routine: (227K likes, 2.8 million views)
TT Brothers – Comedy duo
The TT Brothers are a comedy duo made up of Osada Shouhei and Matsuo Shun. The two have 2.16 million subscribers on YouTube. Onn Instagram, Osada has 987K followers and Matsuo has 404K followers. Their videos feature a variety of styles, but many that have gone viral consist of dancing. One of those videos was at a Los Angeles Lakers game where they were dancing on screen. That video got 11.4 million views.
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Young-Min – Illusionist
Kim Young-Min is a Korean illusionist that involves sand in his magician-like routines. He was the 2015 FISM (International Federation of Magic Societies) World Champion for the General Magic category. He has performed across the world including a number of appearances in Las Vegas. Watch Young Min’s audition preview HERE.
