Donovan Hoffer, a theater singer from Chicago, has a unique ability that will surprise even the most seasoned talent seekers, music professionals, and of course, judges of ‘America’s Got Talent’.
However, when Donovan first took the stage, the mood was far less exciting. Blatantly said, it was bleak, all thanks to Simon Cowell and his ‘this is the hundredth audition I am listening to today’ energy.
“So, you are a one-word artist? like Madonna.” Simon commented on Donovan’s failure to state his full name when asked for it. Luckily Donovan didn’t seem to be phased about it too much.
After all that, Donovan said his dream was to become a theatre performer. Simon gave him the stage with a very unintrigued facial expression that would soon be anything but that.
What Simon and the rest of the judges didn’t know about Donovan is that he falls under a scarce type of male singer, usually called sopranist or male soprano.
And why should this intrigue you, you might ask? Because he can easily sing as high as the highest professional female voices in the world, and he has done it by singing the prolific female protegee ballade ‘Think of Me’ from ‘The Phantom of The Opera’.
Donovan’s extraordinary vocal abilities stunned the judges and sent the room into a frenzy with every note he sang. It finished with the judges’ standing ovation and four yeses.
