The 5-foot 4-inch tall singer studied at Elsinore Hight School. Kodi Lee has two siblings: Derek Lee and Kayle Lee. Lee got diagnosed with autism when he was only four years old.

He was born with optic nerve hypoplasia and survived a life-saving surgery at 5 days old. The singer and pianist, Kodi Lee born on July 27 of 1996 is the firstborn child of Tina and Eric Lee. “Through music and performing, he was able to withstand living in this world because when you’re autistic, it’s really hard to do what everybody else does, It actually has saved his life playing music.”Īlso, read about Winner of Romania’s Got Talent 2016 and Amazing singer from America’s Got Talent 2016-Laura Bretan’s successful is an outcome of her mother’s encouragement! Kodi Lee: Behind the Music His mother acknowledged his talent early and made an effort to help forge a path for him.ĭuring the season premiere, Tina Lee spoke about her son’s love for music and how hard Lee works to make it a possibility, Music transcends language and Kodi Lee relies on music to connect with the world. Kodi has his youtube channel which has amassed 282,000 followers and garnered over 1.7 million views for one of his famous covers “All of Me” by John Legend in 2015. The singer and pianist kicked off the Elsinore High School pep rally with the national anthem way back in 2012 and later graduated to a small stage at the long beach Aquarium where he performed at the Human Abilities Event with a sister Kayla and brother Derek the following year.

His website states that Kodi is a savant and has been playing piano and singing across the world for years.īefore making his astonishing win on the talent show, Kodi would perform on local stages often. Years before the big AGT moment happened, Kody was working exceptionally hard to achieve his dreams. On Wednesday os September 18, Lee performed “You are the Reason” alongside Leona Lewis and the whole audience was gushing over his performance.įurthermore, his performance crowned him the winner of this season’s champion and won him platforms to headline shows at Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas from Nov 7 to 10.Īlso, read about Stunned Simon Cowell was blown away by deaf singer Mandy Harvey and her incredible audition on America’s Got Talent Musical genius Lee worked hard to stand where he is today Kodi Lee’s journey to AGT champion (source: Twitter) It was no news that Lee is an incredible singer but with every new performance, he seemed to bring different stories and moreover had us stunned. The singing icon allowed the musical prodigy to perform Simon and Garfunkel’s 1970 hit Bridge Over Troubled Water during the quarter-finals of the contest America’s Got Talent. Paul Simon surely knows talent when he sees one.

“ He’s making people believe in somethinf they didn’t even know is attainabe. This was the biggest moment of his audition. Gabrielle slammed her first golden buzzer and sent Kodi straight to the live shows. While singing and playing Donny Hathaway’s ‘A Song for you’, he stunned the audience: a jaw drop from Cowell and countless tears from Hough. The 22-year-old talent wowed us with a historical music moment during his first audition and not to mention compelled the judges to stand on their feet. The Southern California native, who is legally blind and was diagnosed with autism at the age of four made history as the winner of America’s Got Talent season 14 this Wednesday. Talent can’t be defied and Kodi’s existence proves it. Kodi Lee’s journey to America’s Got Talent S14 champion Kodi Lee wins the AGT season 14 (source: today show) 2 Musical genius Lee worked hard to stand where he is today.1 Kodi Lee’s journey to America’s Got Talent S14 champion.Somehow managed to get a lovely lady to marry him, and with her have two daughters. He's taught one or two classes a semester in the journalism and mass communications department at Cal State Long Beach since 2006. Earned his first newspaper paycheck at the Belleville (Ill.) News-Democrat, fled the Midwest for Los Angeles Daily News and finally ended up at the Orange County Register. Earned a master's degree at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. with degrees in English and Communications. Graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore.

He grew up, in order, in California, Arkansas, Kentucky and Oregon. He regularly covers the Oscars and the Emmys, goes to Comic-Con and Coachella, reviews pop music, and conducts interviews with authors and actors, musicians and directors, a little of this and a whole lot of that. Peter Larsen has been the Pop Culture Reporter for the Orange County Register since 2004, finally achieving the neat trick of getting paid to report and write about the stuff he's obsessed about pretty much all his life.

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