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13-year-old boy soprano stunned Britain’s Got Talent with his angelic ‘Pie Jesu’ audition

Sometimes a person opens their mouth to sing and what comes out is not at all what one would expect. We’ve seen it countless times on various Got Talent stages, but one unexpected young singer not only surprised the judges and audience of Britain’s Got Talent with his voice—he brought many of them to tears.
Malakai Bayoh is a teen from London. For his BGT audition in early 2023 when he was just 13 years old, he sang “Pie Jesu,” the Andrew Lloyd Webber classic in Latin that helped launch Charlotte Church’s career. “Pie Jesu” is a beautiful hymn that requires a soprano voice and includes some challenging vocal high jumps. When it’s done well, it has a mesmerizing, otherworldly quality to it. Malakai did it well.

With the voice of an angel, he stunned everyone in the BGT studios as well as the folks watching at home. People in the live audience wiped away tears. The famously hard-to-impress Simon Cowell couldn’t stop smiling as Malakai sang, and at one point, it looked as if judge Bruno Tonioli (who is delightfully prone to dramatics, to be fair) might actually faint.
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