SALT LAKE CITY — Kodi Lee continues to find success on “America’s Got Talent.”
Lee, a 22-year-old who has autism and is blind, performed “Bridge Over Troubled Water” by Simon & Garfunkel on Tuesday night, stunning the audience, according to Billboard.
Watch the performance below.
Judge Gabrielle Union said Lee “changed the world” with his original audition earlier in the year.
“Who you are, what you stand for and what you continue to do makes the world become so much of a more beautiful place,” Union said, according to USA Today.
Cowell said, “You are genuinely one of most extraordinary people and talents we’ve had the great fortune to have on any show we’ve ever made. God bless you.”
Lee’s performance kicked off the quarterfinal round. Only seven of the 12 acts involved in the round will make it to September’s semifinal round, according to USA Today.. Three golden buzzer winners will compete in the quarterfinals, including Lee, Sophie Pecora and Luke Islam.
Lee won the season’s first golden buzzer earlier this year when he performed Leon Russell’s “A Song For You,” the Deseret News reports. The performance led Union to hit the golden buzzer, sending Lee through to the next round.
The performance brought Julianne Hough to tears.
“Everybody needs a voice and an expression, and I really feel your heart, your passion,” she said. “Your voice blew all of us away,”