{"id":5790,"date":"2023-01-24T14:12:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T11:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/istori.website\/?p=5790"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:16:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T11:16:26","slug":"matt-mauser-brings-a-heartbreaking-story-and-an-emotional-performance-americas-got-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/istori.website\/?p=5790","title":{"rendered":"Matt Mauser Brings a Heartbreaking Story and an Emotional Performance \u2013 America\u2019s Got Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Matt Mauser is a songwriter, solo artist, pop\/rock bandleader, and Sinatra-style crooner, having spent more than two decades onstage and in the writing room.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Matt Mauser\u2019s emotional performance moved \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d audiences to a standing ovation. Mauser is the widower of Christina Mauser, one of nine people killed in the 2020 helicopter crash in which Kobe Bryant died in February 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a tribute to his wife, Mauser sang the 1984 Phil Collins song, \u201cAgainst All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 51-year-old singer shared his captivating story with the judges beforehand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m a singer and I\u2019m here because my wife,\u201d he began, cracking with emotion. \u201cAnd we\u2019re both teachers and we took a step back from teaching so I could do music full time, and she got the opportunity to coach women\u2019s basketball with Kobe Bryant. But the January 26, 2020 I lost my wife in the same helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before January 26, Christina and I were living this kind of dream life. We met in 2004, she got me saw him play in this dive bar and asked him to come out and we sat in my car and talked about music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Matt Mauser Brings a Heartbreaking Story and an Emotional Performance &#8211; America&#8217;s Got Talent 2021<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"885\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eUj7-2d6fsQ\" title=\"Matt Mauser Brings a Heartbreaking Story and an Emotional Performance - America's Got Talent 2021\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Mauser is a songwriter, solo artist, pop\/rock bandleader, and Sinatra-style crooner, having spent more than two decades onstage and in the writing room. Matt Mauser\u2019s emotional performance moved \u201cAmerica\u2019s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category--english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/istori.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/istori.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/istori.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/istori.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/istori.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/istori.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5796,"href":"https:\/\/istori.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790\/revisions\/5796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/istori.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/istori.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/istori.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/istori.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}