Hopeful performers competed for exposure and a chance to become celebrities in a high-stakes televised talent competition. One of them was a small child whose identity was yet to be revealed but who would go down in the history of music. He went up with a voice that seemed to be the weight of generations and innocence in his eyes, carrying a basic microphone in his hands yet possessing an enormous, unsaid power. The mood suddenly changed as his song’s opening chords filled the room. Usually sensitive to well-executed acts and ostentatious flair, the audience fell
This long-awaited moment, Simon Cowell pressed the button, knelt down and begged sing again.
