“Now it’s a competition,” Mel B declared.
Seiren, who speaks Japanese, said it was a dream come true to be chosen to audition for the AGT: Fantasy League.
Her audition and high notes had the Judges in awe with jaws dropped. She received a standing ovation and even Simon Cowell had to admit it was a pretty amazing performance, despite coming from his season rival, Mel B.
“That was a surprise, I wasn’t expecting it,” he said.
However, Howie Mandel wasn’t on board, and didn’t think the performance was “great.” So who was right? Let’s take a closer look at Seiren’s act.
Opera singer Maria Seiren has been singing professionally in the Tokyo music scene for a decade. She is the director of the opera company Mondo Parallelo. In February she won the first-ever Japan’s Got Talent final. What makes her talent unique, especially in the opera space, is she floats between tenor and soprano vocal ranges and is able to sing both male and female parts of operatic classics with ease.
Watch her audition below:
