Victory performed in her first talent competition three weeks later. Teach me a song.’ Within two days, she had learned ‘Ave Maria.’ ” I showed her an opera singer and she said, ‘I’m gonna do that. “The day before she turned 6, she asked me to show her a YouTube (video) of somebody who could sing the very highest notes, higher than Mandisa. “Between 2 and 3, she was actually memorizing whole CDs by (contemporary Christian singer) Mandisa,” Christine said. “She was so fun and funny and nice,” Victory said of the comedic actress-turned-host.Ĭhristine said Victory has been learning seven languages - and sings in all seven - but French is a favorite.Ĭhristine characterized Victory as “an early talker” who started singing at age 2.

Last year, she sang “Queen of the Night” from “The Magic Flute” (in German!) on the Melissa McCarthy-hosted “Little Big Shots.” “AGT” isn’t Victory’s first primetime performance. “She was probably 6, and she’d get us all together and she’d give us all drink coasters to pretend were buzzers,” Christine said, adding she and Victory only remembered her “AGT”-at-home game after traveling to tape the audition round episode at the Pasadena, Calif., Civic Auditorium in April. Mom Christine said they hadn’t played “AGT” at home in several years. “All of my brothers and sisters would do acts, and sometimes I would pretend to be a bad act and get the buzzer,” Victory said with excitement.

Before she’s on “America’s Got Talent” next week, 9-year-old opera singer Victory Brinker of Unity used to play “AGT” with her 10 siblings as parents Christine and Eric took on the roles of the show’s judges.

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