Simon Cowell stopped the boy’s performance and asked him to sing acapella. After the boy sang, Simon was in shock.

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During a possibly disastrous moment, a 12-year-old girl from Easley, South Carolina, turned an interrupted audition on “America’s Got Talent” into a memorable experience for the judges and the audience.

Ansley began singing Aretha Franklin’s “Think,” but judge Simon Cowell abruptly stopped her performance, criticizing the background music as “terrible, terrible.”