After all the tears, the cheers, the confetti and the fireworks, America\u2019s Got Talent has a new champion \u2014 Jessica Sanchez.<\/p>\n
The Texas native\u2019s name was called out during the finale Wednesday night (Sept. 24) on NBC, completing a decades-long dream that a scriptwriter would be proud of.<\/p>\n
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With her win, Sanchez collects the $1 million champion\u2019s check, an all expenses paid trip to Universal\u2019s new theme park\u00a0Epic Universe<\/a>, and a special place in the hearts of a nation.<\/p>\n Sanchez is the comeback kid, for real. She auditioned for the first season of\u00a0AGT <\/a>back in 2006, when she herself was a child. Now aged 30 and married, she\u2019s the hero of\u00a0AGT<\/a>\u00a02025, which she aced while nine months pregnant with a daughter of her own.<\/p>\n On Tuesday night\u2019s (Sept. 23) live final, Sanchez nailed her rendition <\/a>of \u201cDie With A Smile\u201d by\u00a0Lady Gaga<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Bruno Mars<\/a>. Wearing a delicate all-white ensemble, Sanchez was all power and precision. \u201cIt\u2019s perfection,\u201d remarked Sof\u00eda Vergara, after the singer\u2019s final performance. \u201cYou look like a little pregnant angel. I mean you look beautiful, your voice, I\u2019ve never heard anything like that. Bravo Jessica.\u201d<\/p>\n It was Vergara who, during Sanchez\u2019s audition, gave the singer her Golden Buzzer, and a direct pass to the live round of the competition.<\/p>\n Viewers agreed. When America voted for the final time, it was Sanchez who came out on top.<\/p>\n Earlier, Sanchez joined forces with aerial specialists Sirca Marea for one last performance of \u201cGolden Hour\u201d by JVKE, returning to a song that earned her a spot in the Finals<\/a>.<\/p>\n Performing in front of the acrobatic pair, \u201cI feel like they made the song come alive,\u201d she later told AGT host Terry Crews. \u201cI mean, they\u2019re just so amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n Sanchez came out ahead of a 10-strong Finals field that included Mama Duke, Micah Palace, Steve Ray Ladson, Team Recycled, Chris Turner, LightWire, Jourdan Blue, Leo High School Choir and the high-flying Sirca Marea.<\/p>\n For the record, second place went to freestyle rapper Chris Turner, and singer Jourdan Blue completed the podium in third place. Chicago\u2019s Leo High School Choir came fourth, and visual artists LightWire snagged fifth position<\/a>.<\/p>\n Watch Sanchez\u2019 final performance below.<\/p>\n More to come.<\/p>\n Best of Billboard<\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After all the tears, the cheers, the confetti and the fireworks, America\u2019s Got Talent has a new champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[13162,88,83624],"class_list":["post-180406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-americas-got-talent","tag-entertainment","tag-jessica-sanchez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}