What AGT didn't tell you about Roberta Battaglia _ America's Got Talent 2020

Roberta Battaglia is a 10-year-old singer who is currently competing on season 15 of America's Got Talent. Roberta first caught the attention of most AGT viewers with her golden buzzer audition of Shallow by Lady Gaga. Roberta was born in August of 2009 to Alessandro and Gabriella Battaglia. Her parents are both Italian and moved to Canada from Italy in 2008, just before she was born. Roberta comes from a musical family and started displaying her talent for singing at a young age. Roberta's father is also a well-known singer and both her grandfather and great-grandfather are music teachers in Italy. She first started singing around the age of three, when her father would sing in restaurants and Roberta would sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star whenever she was given a microphone. Roberta performed one of her first duets with her dad at three years old, singing Mi Scapa La Pipi. Her parents continued to nurture her talent and it wasn't long before she started performing in local talent competitions. At the age of four, Roberta finished in fourth place at Hidden Talent Toronto 2014, where she performed Brave by Sara Bareilles. At the age of six, Roberta could often be found performing with her father at birthday parties and weddings. Roberta also performed at local restaurants and the next clip shows her at the age of seven singing Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys at an Ontario restaurant. Roberta lists her favorite music genres as R&B and Jazz. She says Etta James, Aretha Franklin, and P!nk are some of her favorite artists. Roberta explained P!nk as the artist she would like to perform with the most and can be seen in the next clip performing P!nk's What About Us at an event with her father. In 2018, Roberta started her own charitable initiative, designing and selling bracelets to raise money for Toronto's Sick Kids Hospital. All of the money raised is donated to charity. Roberta explained, In March of 2019, Roberta appeared in the Toronto morning television show Breakfast Television. The then nine-year-old singer performed Shallow by Lady Gaga during Kids Got Talent. Later that year, Roberta performed Lady Gaga's Shallow at the 20th Ideacity Conference. Also, in 2019, Roberta came in second place at the CNE Rising Star Talent Competition for juniors. Roberta's recent success did not go unnoticed. AGT producers who had seen Roberta's videos reached out to her mom to see if she would be interested in sending them an audition tape of her daughter. Ultimately, Roberta was selected from the audition tapes to audition for America's For her audition, Roberta once again performed Lady Gaga's Bradley Cooper ballad, Shallow. The performance earned her a standing ovation from the audience and all four judges. After the performance, Judge Simon Cowell said, Roberta responded, Simon went on to say, Judge Sofia Vergara said, Live quarterfinal, Roberta performed a powerful rendition of You Say by Lauren Daigle. After the performance, Judge Sofia Vergara said, I think the world is going to open up for you after this experience. Guest Judge Kelly Clarkson said, During the results show the next day, Roberta learned she had received enough votes from AGT viewers to advance to the next round. Singer Lauren Daigle was also among the viewers wowed by Roberta's performance, tweeting, Roberta now moves on to the semi-final round, where she will compete for one of ten spots in the America's Got Talent finale. Do you think Roberta has what it takes to win season 15 of America's Got Talent? Let us know in the comments below and thank you for watching.