An EMOTIONAL Song For Her Dad With Cancer! So Touching! | AGT Audition S12
Simon=How are you doing?
Evie=Good! How are you?
S=I’m alright thank you. What’s your name.
E=I’m Evie Clair.
S=Evie Clair. How old are you?
E=I’m 13
S=O.K. Where are you from Evie?
E=I’m from a really small town in Arizona called Florence
there is like five prisons there and yeah and baisically there is not even a grocery store there’s a fast food place in the high school and that’s it so
S=What happens if you want to buy milk
E= We have to go like 30 minutes away
S=Okay so there’s a lot of prisoners there.
E=Yeah
S=Okay. So tell me what else
E=My Dad works at the prison and
S=we have so much choices okay?
E=yeah!
S=Now tell me why you decided to American's Got Talent this year?
E= um..it's just always been my dream ever since I was little and my...Sorry..,
S=You take your time.
E=My family um..about a year ago my dad was diagnosed...sorry...
It was Stage 4 colon cancer and I gave him 5 % chance to live and he still continued
working and supporting our family and so tonight
I'm here to sing for him
S=What's the song you've decided to sing tonight?
E=I'm missing arms by Christina Perri
S=and tell me why you chose this song Evie?
E=when my dad is having rough days then I go to his room
and I sing this song to help him feel better just to give him comfort and strength to um continue fighting
S=I got it. I got it.
S=Evie you'd be really umbelivably brave what you told us tonight. now I want you
just to settle yourself for a little while Okay?
Tyra Banks=Here's all the water. Let me hold that for you while you do that
E=alright thank you
T=Okay you tell me Yes we'll be working show her all day and drink you need more you go all right ! here you go!
S=pretty better?
E=Yeah!
S=Okay, this is the time I wanna hear the best vocal you've ever ever done got it yeah?
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Evie Clair: This Finale Tribute To Her Dad Will MELT AMERICA'S HEART!! America's Got Talent 2017
Evie Clair is a young singer on America’s Got Talent and she has made it to the finale with the help of America’s votes. Over the course of the season, Clair has dedicated her performances to her father, Amos Dean Abplanalp, who was sick with cancer. At her first audition on the show, he waited back stage with Clair’s mother and host Tyra Banks, looking on as his daughter performed. As the season carried on, Clair’s dad became more ill and, unfortunately, Clair’s father died before he could see his girl sing in tonight’s finale.
After suffering from stage 4 colon cancer, Clair’s dad was taken off life support. With her father’s passing, Clair’s performing in the finale was up in the air, but her mother wrote in her blog that Clair is going to push through and perform. Apparently, judge Simon Cowell gave Clair the option to return next season in order to grieve the loss of her father. At the funeral, Clair’s mother said that the family received a huge flower arrangement from Simon Cowell and his wife, as well as another arrangement from AGT judges Howie, Heidi, Mel B, host Tyra and the AGT crew.
