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Stuart Heritage

Choir: a moving tale of inner-city singers that will leave you a blubbering wreck

Choir Anthony White Disney Terry Crews
Anthony White, artistic director, and some of the young singers of the Detroit Youth Choir get ready to perform.
Anthony White, artistic director, and some of the young singers of the Detroit Youth Choir get ready to perform. Photograph: Disney

In 2019, during the 14th season of America’s Got Talent, one act blazed in out of nowhere. Bustling excitedly on to the stage, the Detroit Youth Choir belted out a soaring, energetic rendition of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s song Can’t Hold Us. The performance was so powerful that the TV show’s host, Terry Crews, walked on to the stage and announced tearfully: “Every young man and woman on this stage represents me and where I came from” – before taking the unprecedented step of overriding the judges and pressing the golden buzzer himself, automatically sending the choir to the quarter finals. It was an unforgettable moment of television; and the new Disney+ series Choir follows what happened next.

Watch the DYC audition on America’s Got Talent in 2019.
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