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Plane crash survivor moves judge to tears with America's Got Talent semifinals performance [Video]

With a soulful rendition, Kechi Okwuchi moved judges to tears on America's Got Talent semifinals. Watch her performance.

At the end of her performance, all the judges — Simon CowellHeidi KlumMel B and Howie Mandel, stood up to applaud her.

“All I wanna do is I wanna hug you and I wanna hold you," Mandel said.

With tears in her eyes, Mel B described Kechi as “so special,”  while Cowell described her performance as the “best by a clear mile.”

Klum concluded by saying that Kechi “ruled the stage today like a queen.”

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Kechi made it to the lives with her rendition of Donny Hathaway "Song for You."

She then made it to the semi finals with her cover of Katy Perry's "By the Grace of God."

On December 10, 2005, Okwuchi became one of the two survivors of the Sosoliso Airline Flight 1145 crash that took the lives of 107 passengers.

The crash occurred 20 minutes to landing on her way back to Port Harcourt for a Christmas holiday with other students from her school, Loyola Jesuit College.

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