For the fifteenth season of NBC’s America’s Got Talent, winner Brandon Leake placed the spoken word community into the spotlight, in which garnered praise from fans all over America.
As the winner of its pandemic season, million dollar prize money and contract to perform in Las Vegas, Leake relished the experience with the ups and downs with being on the show, the life afterwards, and being a voice for the spoken word community.
In its sixteen season of America’s Got Talent, the show proceeds to find the best talented Americans as these reality television competitions are opening up from the pandemic.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Undiscovered talent of all ages—singers, dancers, magicians, comics, musicians, ventriloquists, and more—appear before celebrity judges who decide which contestants move on in the competition each week. With the guidance of the show’s host, the audience learns the backstories of these amazing people as they strive to make it to the finale, where one talented performer wins a life-changing $1 million prize. A select few join the most memorable and extraordinary acts from previous years, along with favorite contestants from other international Got Talent franchises, and return to the stage to show off their talents in hopes of impressing the judges’ panel once again and taking home the title of America’s “World Champion.”
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LRM Online’s Gig Patta chatted with season fifteen winner of America’s Got Talent Brandon Leake as he talked about his past experiences and advice for the contestants of the new season.
Brandon Leake is a spoken word poet and motivational speaker, who received the Golden Buzzer award in the first round from Howie Mandel in his season. He performed pieces about his deceased sister, his father, Black Lives Matter, and his daughter.
Season sixteen of America’s Got Talent returns on Tuesday, June 1st at 8/7c.
Watch the exclusive interview with Brandon Leake below. Let us know what you think.
Source: LRM Online Exclusive, NBC
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