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Watch this deaf singer win Simon Cowell’s heart on 'America’s Got Talent'

Sara M Moniuszko
USA TODAY

Not only are her vocal cords golden, so is her ticket to Hollywood.

Mandy Harvey, a 29-year-old from St. Cloud, Fla., earned herself a golden buzzer from Simon Cowell and a place in all our hearts. Her audition on Tuesday night's episode of America’s Got Talent was enough to send her straight through to the live rounds of the NBC competition show.

Singing an original song titled Try, the singer revealed that she lost her hearing 10 years ago due to a connective tissue disorder.

“I was singing since I was 4,” she explained, before beginning her performance. “I left music after I lost my hearing and then figured out how to get back into singing with muscle memory, using visual turners and trusting my pitch.”

But with an interpreter standing by, and her shoes off so she could feel the vibrations of the floor, Harvey gave an incredible performance that brought some audience members to tears.

Clearly emotional from Cowell’s positive response, she was joined onstage by the notoriously prickly judge to give her even more praise.

“I mean, I’ve done this a long time," he said after giving her a hug. "That was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen and heard.”