Singer Michael Grimm wins `America's Got Talent'


Bluesy crooner Michael Grimm has traded his fedora for the crown on "America's Got Talent."

Grimm, a native of Waveland, Miss., was revealed as the winner of the NBC variety competition on its season conclusion airing Wednesday. Viewers had cast their votes after Tuesday's performance show.

Grimm, 30, looked shocked when he heard his name announced. Then he bent to hug and earnestly console the runner-up, 10-year-old soprano sensation Jackie Evancho of Pittsburgh.

Many handicappers had expected Jackie to be the top vote-getter. Her pure, powerful voice repeatedly left the judges (Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandel) scrambling to find new ways to sing her praises.

But Grimm's soft-spoken manner and signature stingy-brimmed hat endeared him to "Talent" viewers, along with his soulful vocals. Describing himself as "just a boy from Mississippi," he more than once expressed surprise that he had made it through the weeks of competition.

From the start he had said that, if he won, he wanted to use some of his prize money to help his grandparents, who raised him and lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. He plans to give them a new home.

Along with his $1 million prize as winner, Grimm will headline a national "America's Got Talent" live tour.

The two other finalists were Prince Poppycock, the outlandishly costumed operatic creation of Los Angeles store clerk John Quale, and the performance troupe Fighting Gravity, a group of 13 fraternity brothers from Virginia Tech at Blacksburg, Va.

Singer Michael Grimm wins `America's Got Talent' - Yahoo! News


Congrats Michael...


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I'm a Jackie Evancho fan, so I was disappointed when I first heard the result. I was cursing those little teen girls running up their parents' phone bills to make the phone votes for the pretty boy, but I'm over it.

Grimm is good. I must admit.

I figured it would come down to those two. I don't think there were any real losers there though. All four remaining acts were exceptional. They should all be able to make careers for themselves from here.

Man, that little Jackie is amazing though. Her number with Sarah Brightman tonight dropped my jaw.

So much talent but there must be a winner and a loser,they were both great..

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Absolutely. I mean here's the loser, so how good did the winner have to be that they aren't rioting on the street - and they aren't (Damn )

I'm a let you finish but Michael Grimm is a great talent and so is Jackie Evancho.

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He may have also received a "sympathy" vote but there can be no denial,he has exceptional talent and circumstances may well have given him the edge over Jackie.

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The Optimist expects it to change.
The Realist adjust the sails - William A. Ward

It was obvious that Jackie Evancho was the entrenched Democratic incumbent and Michael Grimm was the Tea Party's candidate...

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And you know I'm agreeing with you, right. But you don't like my undercurrent grumbling of sour grapes, is that it? C'mon...give me that.

For example...

Yeah, but in this case the tea party, would be between 12, and 16, female, and voting 10 times with the cell phone daddy pays for.

See? Sour grapes. I can't stop myself.

Yup... and all along I was rooting for Jackie Evancho. I was somewhat disappointed but Michael Grimm's performance mitigated most of my disappointment and he was exceptionally gracious to Jackie..

She could be the next Julie Andrews and I for one am ready for a fresh, good musical.

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