{"id":1009639,"date":"2026-08-18T23:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1009639\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T23:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:44:20","slug":"americas-got-talent-quarterfinals-1-recap-agt-goes-live-on-aug-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1009639\/","title":{"rendered":"America’s Got Talent Quarterfinals 1 recap: AGT goes live on Aug. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Live from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, it’s AGT<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Heading into the first America’s Got Talent<\/a> live show of Season 21, judges Howie Mandel, Mel B, Sof\u00eda Vergara, and Simon Cowell had finally narrowed down the enormous field of auditioners to just 44 acts<\/a>. Over the next four weeks of quarterfinals<\/a>, each group of 11 will perform live for America’s votes on Tuesdays, with the results being announced on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n

Taking the stage in Week 1 are the following: magician group Hundred Fingers (Howie’s Golden Buzzer), rapper Luke Taleno (Howie’s Golden Buzzer), light-up dance trio Royal Lasers (Terry’s Golden Buzzer), singer Ashford Sanders, singer Brook Lynn, comedian Cris Sosa, mentalist duo James & Marina, tumbling group Jesse White Tumbling Team, dog act Olivia Befus, dancers Sando, and choir CommUNITY ATL.<\/p>\n

\"'America's<\/p>\n

Read on for our performance recap of America’s Got Talent Quarterfinals 1, which aired Aug. 18 on NBC<\/a>. We will add videos and judges’ comments as soon as they are made available.<\/p>\n

More to come …<\/p>\n

Hundred Fingers<\/p>\n

Luke Taleno<\/p>\n

Royal Lasers<\/p>\n

Ashford Sanders<\/p>\n

Brook Lynn<\/p>\n

Cris Sosa<\/p>\n

James & Marina<\/p>\n

Jesse White Tumbling Team<\/p>\n

Olivia Befus<\/p>\n

Sando<\/p>\n

CommUNITY ATL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Live from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, it’s AGT! Heading into the first America’s Got Talent live show of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1009640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[68397,4001,171,1030,6337,173,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1009639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-agt","tag-americas-got-talent","tag-entertainment","tag-nbc","tag-reality-tv","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117119175017758159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}