AGT Golden Buzzer Winner Darci Lynne Joins Us

Darci Lynne comes from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Right before her AGT audition, she told the cameras why she took up ventriloquism. As a Darci Lynne waited for her turn to perform, the 12-year-old took out her puppet rabbit, Petunia and said they were alike in terms of shyness. “For me it’s always been, you know, hard to talk to people. I’m not good at eye-contact, and things like that,” she said in her introduction. When Darci Lynne was younger, she first saw a ventriloquist act at a local church and wanted to try it. She took on the craft after her parents gave her a puppet for her 10th birthday. “Ventriloquism, kind of, helped me find my voice. It’s really helped me come out of my shell.” After winning local talent shows and participating in Little Big Shots, Darci Lynne now has set her sights set on winning America’s Got Talent. Her inspiration is Terry Fator, the Season 2 winner and the first ventriloquist to win AGT. Paul Zerdin of Season 10 was the second ventriloquist to w