{"id":169827,"date":"2025-09-26T06:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169827\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T06:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:51:07","slug":"americas-got-talent-winner-jessica-sanchez-on-first-audition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169827\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Got Talent Winner Jessica Sanchez on First Audition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1422949\/americas-got-talent-season-20-winner-revealed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Jessica Sanchez<\/a>&#8216;s got talent.<\/p>\n<p>The singer was named the winner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/americas_got_talent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">America&#8217;s Got Talent<\/a>&#8216;s 20th season, beating out freestyle rapper Chris Turner\u00a0to take home the top prize on the Sept. 24 episode.<\/p>\n<p>But the for 30-year-old\u2014who first auditioned for the NBC competition in 2006, but failed to make it to the season one grand finale\u2014her big feat was something &#8220;20 years in the making.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was on season one when I was 10 years old, and just going through all those years of feeling rejected and feeling like a failure, I had to pick myself back up and believe in myself again,&#8221; she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/americas-got-talent-winner-jessica-sanchez-agt-1236074561\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Billboard<\/a> in an interview published Sept. 25. &#8220;I continued to fight for my dreams, and throughout the 20 years, it\u2019s been really hard trying to find myself as an artist and as a woman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not only was Jessica&#8217;s victory a full-circle moment, but it also cemented her in the AGT history books for winning while nine-months pregnant with her and husband Rickie Gallardo&#8217;s first baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessica Sanchez&#8216;s got talent. The singer was named the winner of America&#8217;s Got Talent&#8216;s 20th season, beating out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-169827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}