Emanne Beasha ( ar, إيمان بيشة; born 18 September 2008) is a Circassian American classically-trained singer. She is the winner of the fifth season of the program '' Arabs Got Talent'' and finished in 9th place on fourteenth Season of ''

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''.

Biography

Beasha was born in

Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...

to Jordanian parents of Circassian descent. Beasha started to sing

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, in Italian, from the age of six. Her parents discovered her talent as a two-year-old in Jordan. Beasha auditioned for Season 5 of Arabs Got Talent in 2017, at age eight, and received the Golden Buzzer. On 20 May she won the final with a cover of " Time to Say Goodbye" and received prize money of $130,000. In recognition of her win, Beasha received the King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein Medal of Merit (Gold) from

King Abdullah II Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein ( ar, عبدالله الثاني بن الحسين , translit=ʿAbd Allāh aṯ-ṯānī ibn al-Ḥusayn; born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of t ...

during Independence Day celebrations in

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on 25 May 2017, becoming the medal's youngest recipient in history. Beasha auditioned for Season 14 of ''

'' in 2019, for which she sang "

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." The performance was favorably received, and

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said of Emanne, "You are absolutely fantastic". She received four yesses from the judges to advance to the Judge Cuts round. On August 6, 2019, Beasha appeared on the fourth episode of America's Got Talent's Judge Cuts with guest judge

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. She performed the opera-style song " Caruso" by Italian pop singer

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and received Leno's Golden Buzzer, becoming the only individual act to receive the buzzer in different global versions of the 'Got Talent' franchise. (The group Zurcaroh had also won it twice.) This qualified her to move on to the quarter-finals live shows. On August 27, 2019, Beasha sang "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana" ("Well then? I'll Go Far away") from the opera ''

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'' for her appearance in the Quarter Finals of America's Got Talent. America voted, and Emanne moved to the semifinals. In the semifinals, she performed an Italian version of "

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" by

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, received favorable reviews from the judges, and advanced to the finals in the Judges' Choice. In the finals, she sang " La mamma morta" from

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's opera ''

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''. On the night that the results were announced, she performed

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's " Time to Say Goodbye" alongside pianist

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. At the end, she was not in the Top 5 acts and finished in 9th place. Beasha joined

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on the North American leg of his world tour in Tampa on 11 March 2020, but the rest of the tour was cancelled or postponed due to the

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References

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