Music savant Kodi Lee performs stunning David Bowie cover on 'America's Got Talent'
Lee gave the lyrics to "Heroes" a whole new meaning.
Singer and pianist Kodi Lee previously rose to fame after winning season 14 of âAmerica's Got Talent.â
Within weeks of his first audition, the musical savant became a viral sensationâwowing judges and audiences alike with his almost supernatural musical abilities.
Though legally blind and diagnosed with autism at an early age, Lee easily masters multiple styles of music and has been blessed with a rare "audio photographic" memory, meaning he can recall music he hears after just one listen, according to his website.
Lee has once again returned to the stage for âAGT: All Starsâ with a cover of David Bowieâs âHeroes,â and itâs nothing short of spectacular.
The lyrics to âHeroesâ were inspired by a real-life couple Bowie would see every day outside his apartment window in Berlin in 1976. The Thin White Duke had become creatively burnt out in Los Angeles, but after witnessing the lovers meet every day to share a kiss under a gun turret on The Berlin Wall, his mojo was recovered, and he went on to create what would be one of his most enduring songs. Though originally intended as a love story, âHeroesâ encapsulated much bigger themes of the time, even becoming forever linked with the dismantling of the infamous Berlin Wall.
Similarly, judge Simon Cowell remarked that Leeâs rendition gave the lyrics âwhole new meaningâ after his performance.
âYou have this real gift and every time you perform thereâs just silence. Everyoneâs focused, and then theyâre listening to every word and then weâre wondering what youâre gonna do with the song. And then you hit those big notes, and youâre so cool, and just so brilliant,â he said.
Howie Mendel echoed the sentiment, saying, âThe lyric is âWe can be heroes just for one day,â and Kodi, you are a hero every day.â
Watch the All-Star performance that received a standing ovation below. Somewhere, David Bowie is smiling while listening to this.
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