‘AGT’: Simon Cowell Predicts Grace VanderWaal Is ‘The Next Taylor Swift’

Simon Cowell made a bold prediction about a 12-year-old singer with a ukulele: “I think you’re the next Taylor Swift.”

That’s what he told Grace VanderWaal after she wowed the “America’s Got Talent” judges in Tuesday’s auditions with a heart-piercing song she wrote about herself that immediately shot her into the semifinals.

“I don’t know my name. I don’t play by the rules of the game,” she sang. “I’m lost, trying to get found in an ocean…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNxO9MpQ2vA

The Suffern, New York, resident left the judges amazed as she took them, with a shy smile, on a musical ride peaking with, “I now know my name.”

Howie Mandel called her “a living, beautiful, walking miracle” — then pressed the golden buzzer that sent her to the live semifinals.