{"id":832899,"date":"2026-07-29T04:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832899\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T04:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:20:09","slug":"americas-got-talent-episode-8-recap-judges-pick-pynk-beard-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832899\/","title":{"rendered":"America’s Got Talent Episode 8 recap: Judges pick Pynk Beard and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

After seven nights of auditions for America’s Got Talent<\/a> Season 21, Simon Cowell, Sofia Vergara, Mel B, and Howie Mandel had to decide which contestants would complete the 44-act roster for the quarter-final live shows. Instead of bringing the acts back to the AGT<\/a> stage for another preliminary round, they first decided on their unanimous “no brainer” acts to advance based solely on their audition. Then, Simon asked each of the panelists to select the acts they still feel passionate enough about to invite to perform again in next week’s Judges’ Callbacks round.<\/p>\n

Read on for our “Live Acts Revealed” recap of the decisions that determined who will perform in the live shows on America’s Got Talent Season 21, Episode 8, which aired July 28 on NBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Golden Buzzers<\/p>\n

Already advancing as part of the 44 live performers are the 10 acts that received a Golden Buzzer from one of the judges during the auditions. Howie’s acts are South Korean magic act Hundred Fingers and Cuban rapper Luke Taleno. Mel’s acts are singers Isaac Atkins and Mackenzie Sol. Simon’s acts are singer Lai Noelle and one-legged parkour athlete Rub\u00e9n Rold\u00e1n Bustos. Sofia’s acts are Australian vocalist Lara D. and Ukrainian aerial pole artist Veronika Goroshkova. And Terry Crews chose dance crew-dog act Acro Crew and Royal Lasers from Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Unanimous Decisions<\/p>\n

Before inviting on-the-fence artists to their homes, the judges decided that there were 18 “no brainer” acts that they could unanimously say deserve to appear in the live shows after their single audition, including country band Pynk Beard and the Jesse White Tumbling Team.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The other 16 “unanimous decisions” heading to the quarter-finals are: 22-year old magician Geno Ploeger, robot dance crew Unitree, variety duo Brad & Tracy, comedic vocalist Cesar Dias, choir group The CommUNITY ATL, magicians Young & Strange, Korean dance crew Come Here, singer Ashford Sanders, aerial duo Holland & Sienna, danger variety performer Herwan Legaillard, country rock band Jesse Joe, danger duo Tyrone & Margo, poet and singer Guy Kelton Jones, celebrity impression artist Cameron Logsdon, dancer Patrox, and all-age Bay Area choir LaRussell.<\/p>\n

Simon’s Callbacks<\/p>\n

The acts that Simon invited to see again were singing duo Nyjah Music & Zyah Rhythm, comedic variety performer Akira, dance crew Elektro Dads, singer Travis Garland, variety performer Sando, and singer Elsie.<\/p>\n

Howie’s Callbacks<\/p>\n

The contestants that Howie invited to see again were metal guitarist Nene Royal, variety duo Naimana & Daniele, stand-up comedian Cris Sosa, celebrity impression artist Rynia Kando, comic Daniel Alvarez, and music duo Bird and Byron.<\/p>\n

Mel B’s Callbacks<\/p>\n

The acts that Mel B invited to see again were country duo Butter & Grit, magician Joel M, stand-up comedian Lachlan Patterson, singer Bety, magic duo James & Marina, and country duo Madelyn & Malachi.<\/p>\n

Sofia’s Callbacks<\/p>\n

The performers that Sofia invited to see again were dog act Olivia Befus, singer Brook Lynn, magician Darrell Moten, magician Kameron Marshall, and beatboxer Vahtang.<\/p>\n

Next week, the 23 callback acts journey to the homes of the judges’ to perform face-to-face with one of the judges and special guests like Normani, Lele Pons, and Emma Bunton for their last chance at a convincing argument that they should be included in the live shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After seven nights of auditions for America’s Got Talent Season 21, Simon Cowell, Sofia Vergara, Mel B, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[50119,16674,49,48,75,7817,14983,348],"class_list":["post-832899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-agt","tag-americas-got-talent","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-nbc","tag-reality-tv","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}