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America’s Got Talent performance, during which she voiced
“Summertime” for Petunia the rabbit, was named by YouTube as its No. 4 Viral Video of the
Year, notching nearly 20 million views.
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EVENT: Darci Lynne and Friends
DATE/TIME: Saturday, July 28
VENUE: Walt Disney Theater
NOTES: The 13-year-old ventriloquist
rocketed to fame after winning season
12 of America’s Got Talent. She’s
out venues across the country and
wowing audiences with her technical
skills, comedic timing and outsized
singing voice.
TICKETS: Priced starting at $29.75;
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for $99.75. The opening act will be Pelican
212, a peppy Pensacola-based combo
consisting of seven singing siblings — including
twin 12-year-old trumpet players.
Darci may be just a kid, but she’s already
a seasoned entertainer. Before auditioning
for America’s Got Talent, she entered —
and usually won — local and regional talent
technique and developed keen comedic
timing for her onstage banter.
After her America’s Got Talent triumph,
she immediately got to headline a show at
the Planet Hollywood Casino & Resort in Las
Vegas — an extra date was added due to
ticket demand — and later to perform in a
Darci has also appeared on such national
TV shows as Ellen, NBC Today and Entertainment
Tonight. Not bad for a girl who says she
decided to learn ventriloquism at age 10 as a
way to overcome shyness. Yes, shyness.
“I had a hard time talking to people, making
eye contact and things like that,” Darci
said before her life-changing national TV de-
Darci’s idol, she says, is ventriloquist Terry
Fator, a Las Vegas headliner who won America’s
Got Talent during the show’s second
season. She performed “Anything You Can
Darci singing as Petunia and Fator singing as
Winston the Impersonating Turtle.
Fator has said of Darci that she’s “one of
the most unbelievable, perfect ventriloquists
I’ve ever seen, and she’ll only get better.”
He has also called her “one of the most talented
human beings on the planet.”
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