12-year-old ventriloquist beats Nigeria’s favourite Okwuchi to AGT glory

Darci Lynne Farmer is the new America’s Got Talent champion.

The 12-year-old won the night with her incredible singing ventriloquist act, bringing her puppet, Petunia, back on Wednesday for a performance of Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) with fellow ventriloquist Terry Fator, who won season 2 of America’s Got Talent.

Singer, Angelica Hale came in second behind the ventriloquist.

Nigerian favourite, Kechi Okwuchi, who rose like a phoenix from a terrible Sosoliso plane crash that took 108 lives on December 10, 2005, came in sixth.

Below is how the voting went

1. Darci Lynne Farmer

2. Angelica Hale

3. Light Balance

4. Mandy Harvey

5. Sara and Hero

6. Kechi

7. Preacher Lawson

8. Diavolo

9. Evie Clair

10. Chase Goehring

Source: Punch