And this 12 year old overshadowed Susan Boyle --the previous wonder-- completely!
Watch him here.
12-year-old Shaheen Jafargholi went on stage and bombed the audience, but not the judges, with his grandfather's favorite song - Valerie. He was only about 30 seconds into his audition when Simon stopped him. Trust Simon to do the unthinkable.
Then he started again, singing Michael Jackson's 'Who's Loving You'. And this time he did not only captivated his audience but the judges as well. Simon was goddamn speechles, Amanda's jaws were wide open the whole time, and Piers's eyes went wide the second he started. And the audience was crying!
Shaheen also got a standing ovation from Simon, and ah --not to forget-- the whole crowd. Now that's rare. Simon don't give standing ovations away easily.
The million dollar question here is why did Simon stopped Shaheen while he was singing Valerie?
My opinion was Shaheen was trying to hard to reproduce what he heard. He was singing the song just like the original singer did. And Simon knew that Shaheen could do far better than reproducing. And Shaheen did it! Without any practice at all, he sang 'Who's Loving You' like no one else could.
The boy definitely got talent, don't we all agree? Like Simon Cowell said, "This song will change your life forever."
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