Jeffrey Ou, Lawrence Beaman, Mario & Jenny, Hairo Torres, and FootworKINGz advanced to the semifinals in America’s Got Talent Season 4 Episode 18. Tonight the final 12 acts perform.
The contestants competing tonight are:
Ishaara
Coney Island Chris
Matt & Anthony
Pam Martin’s Top Dogs
African High Flyers
Erik & Rickie
The EriAm Sisters
Mia Boostrom
Recycled Percussion
Barbara Padilla
Additionally, the two wild cards are:
Drew Stevyns
Lollipop Girls
Bollywood dance group Ishaara is up first. Piers enjoys the act, but mostly can’t take his eyes off the blonde chick in the middle. Hoff calls them the best dance act on the show.
Opera singer Barbara Padilla hopes to be a good example for her adopted daughter. She brings down the house. Sharon’s breath has been taken away. Hoff tells her she is exactly where she is supposed to be because she’s a star. Piers says this is the reason Simon Cowell created this show, and the bar has been raised so high that nobody will beat her tonight.
Pam Martin has brought with her another one of her top dogs, Spy, Viva’s brother. Hoff tells her she’s may not win, but she does have a place in Vegas. Piers is surprised that Spy did not make any mistakes and he didn’t have to buzz. Sharon mostly just likes dogs that don’t pee everywhere.
The African High Flyers grew up hanging out on the beach in Kenya, performing their acrobatic dance routines for tips from tourists. Piers buzzes because they have not progressed far enough from the auditions. Although Sharon enjoyed the show, she agrees with him. Hoff, however, loved it.
Mia Boostrom returns to sing and play piano to Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. A risky song. Sharon hopes she’s in the five. Hoff is proud to have been part of her transformation. Piers has a big but. Not a perfect performance, especially at the higher range. He can’t rate her above Kevin Skinner, Lawrence Beaman, or Barbara Padilla.
Erik & Rickie are ballroom dancers ages 8 and 9. They’ve been dancing since they were kids. Their performance for this evening is the paso doble. Quite talented for their ages, but I still say they’re no Cheeky Monkeys. Hoff could see them going all the way. Piers is impressed with Erik’s improvement. Sharon wants to see people vote.
Coney Island Chris is just hoping not to kill himself. First he lights his tongue on fire, resulting in buzzers from Piers and Sharon. Then he drinks some lamp oil and spits fire, followed by lighting his butt on fire. As he gets extinguished, Hoff makes it three buzzers. Piers was horrified. By how bad it was. Sharon doesn’t know how he got this far. Hoff just wanted to see him set himself on fire.
Matt Lucas is a guitar player, while Anthony Morigerato is a tap dancer. How do they combine to form a cohesive act? Well, I guess that’s still the unanswered question. Piers buzzes. Sharon loves Anthony’s dancing, but the combination just doesn’t gel. Hoff thinks the combination works, even though it’s a little rusty. Piers appreciates Anthony’s dancing like Sharon, but he doesn’t like that the singing, while competent, isn’t up to par.
The Lollipop Girls are the first wild card act of the night. I don’t know that they’re necessarily hot enough to do this stripper routine, although they do get themselves plenty of whistling (apparently all from one guy) regardless. Hoff says that Vegas needs an act like this. Piers could watch that for a long time. He became more certain the more they took off.
The other wild card act of the night is singer Drew Stevyns. Piers doesn’t think he has the voice to carry him through. He sings and plays guitar to How to Save a Life by The Fray. Not sure it’s enough, but he’s definitely got something there. Piers doesn’t think he’s the best singer, but he sees desire and hunger. Respectable effort and probably the best performance he’s ever given. When he heard him earlier, Hoff thought he was the guest star of the week.
Recycled Percussion create music with just about anything they can get their hands on. Sharon applauds them for listening to the judges and making it more musical. Hoff just wants to go bang on and break things as soon as he calms down a little. Piers calls them 20 times better than before.
The EriAm Sisters are semi-professional singers ages 12-16. They sing Beyonce’s Crazy in Love. Hoff warns them they sing so great, but the dancing is just okay. Piers doesn’t know what Destiny’s Child were like at their age (they performed on Star Search in the 90s, and they thought they were rappers), but he thinks we’re looking at the next Destiny’s Child.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 4 Episode 20, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on NBC.