{"id":113749,"date":"2018-06-21T07:46:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T11:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=113749"},"modified":"2018-06-21T07:46:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T11:46:29","slug":"young-dominican-singer-gets-golden-buzzer-on-americas-got-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/06\/21\/young-dominican-singer-gets-golden-buzzer-on-americas-got-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Dominican singer gets Golden Buzzer on America\u2019s Got Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_113770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113770\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113770\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Amanda-Mena-Youtube-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Mena \/ Youtube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Amanda Mena, a young Dominican-born singer currently living in Boston, Massachusetts, and who confessed to being bullied when she was a newly arrived immigrant, was rewarded with a Golden Buzzer for her rendition of \u201cA Natural Woman\u201d during her audition for the reality talent show, America\u2019s Got Talent. The judges\u2019 praise was truly effusive. The judges commented: \u201cI am blown away\u201d, \u201cYou are a super natural talent,\u201d \u201cYou have genuinely natural soul, this is an audition we will remember for a long time\u201d, \u201cThat was incredible.\u201d \u201cYou are amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, judge Mel B commented: \u201cThis is what I am going to say to all those bullies\u201d, as she smacked the Golden Buzzer. With the Golden Buzzer, Mena goes straight to the semifinals on live TV.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2014, Amanda won the second season of Telemundo\u2019s \u201cLa Voz Kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Listen to her sing:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zLh-2w-Nq9Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZO0fLw_mTio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-8oxjsp63cg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/revista\/musica\/dominicana-pasa-a-ronda-en-vivo-en-el-reality-america-s-got-talent-EH10174624\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>21 June 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Mena, a young Dominican-born singer currently living in Boston, Massachusetts, and who confessed to being bullied when she was a newly arrived immigrant, was rewarded with a Golden Buzzer for her rendition of \u201cA Natural Woman\u201d during her audition for the reality talent show, America\u2019s Got Talent. The judges\u2019 praise was truly effusive. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/06\/21\/young-dominican-singer-gets-golden-buzzer-on-americas-got-talent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}