The INSIDER Summary:
- A nine-year-old girl covered "Girl on Fire" by Alicia Keys on "America's Got Talent."
- The judges loved it and sent her to the next round.
- She survived a kidney transplant when she was four.
- Now she performs to raise money for children's hospitals.
Angelica Hale is only nine years old, but she's already an accomplished singer. On "America's Got Talent" Tuesday night, she sang a cover of "Girl On Fire" by Alicia Keys and blew the judges away.
She's also a kidney transplant survivor. When she was four, she went on life support after a bacterial infection damaged her kidneys. She later received a kidney from her mother and performs to raise money for children's hospitals.
"I'm so blown away," judge Chris Hardwick said after her performance. "Because you walk out and you've got these sneakers on, and you look like this adorable little child. And then you open your mouth and it's like, "How do those pipes fit in that tiny body?' It's just unbelievable!"
Hardwick gave Hale a "golden buzzer," which automatically sent her to a later round of the contest.
Hale also previously sang a cover of Andra Day's "Rise Up" on the show.
Watch her performance of "Girl on Fire" below:
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