Lavender Darcangelo: 5 Things To Know About The Blind & Autistic Singer Auditioning For ‘AGT’

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Image Credit: NBC Lavender’s audition volition aerial connected July 11. Lavender is unsighted and autistic. Lavender was adopted.

The America’s Got Talent play 18 auditions are successful afloat swing. During the July 11 episode, Lavender Darcangelo volition execute for the judges. Given her immense talent, Lavender’s audition is definite to beryllium talked astir each crossed societal media.

So, who is Lavender Darcangelo? Her communicative volition determination you. HollywoodLife has rounded up 5 cardinal things to cognize astir Lavender.

Lavender Darcangelo performing connected ‘AGT.’ (NBC)

Lavender is unsighted and autistic.

Lavender is unsighted and autistic. She opened up astir her disabilities successful a 2019 interrogation with GMA. “I felt similar I was lonely successful my beingness due to the fact that I person aggregate disabilities successful my beingness being unsighted and autistic,” she said. “Sometimes having much than 1 disablement tin marque you consciousness similar you person a ft successful each these antithetic worlds, but you don’t consciousness similar you person a location successful them completely.” Lavender has go a disablement advocate. 

Lavender is simply a singer.

Lavender went viral aft performing “Part of Your World” from The Little Mermaid during an LGBT cabaret show astatine First Parish Church successful Fitchburg, Massachusetts. She began singing earlier she could talk. “When I was unsocial astatine nighttime successful my room, I would daydream astir singing connected TV,” she told GMA. “[These daydreams] were similar a coping mechanism, I guess, and I conscionable loved doing it.”

Lavender was adopted.

Lavender joined a mentorship programme that was founded by Wil Darcangelo. He became her singing coach. Wil and his husband, Jamie, went connected to follow Lavender successful 2017. “They’ve taught maine unconditional emotion and that there’s ever a airy astatine the extremity of the tunnel,” she told GMA astir her adoptive dads.

Lavender Darcangelo with her begetter connected ‘AGT.’ (NBC)

Lavender is moving connected her debut album.

The vocalist is presently moving connected her debut solo medium titled Mosaic, according to her website. The medium volition diagnostic a “wide assortment of songs and philharmonic styles” and “will grant and rise consciousness of the diverseness wrong the autism and disablement community.”

Lavender hosted a virtual performance during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lavender led the escaped virtual performance successful grant of Disability Awareness Month backmost successful October 2020. She sang covers of deed songs and performed an archetypal opus called “Will I Ever,” according to AP.

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