The 20 acts crowned on America’s Got Talent from 2006 through 2025 have followed varied paths: Terry Fator and Shin Lim performed Las Vegas residencies, while Richard Goodall released a single in 2025 and left his janitorial job in 2026 to pursue music.
Other winners’ paths include magician Mat Franco, who has had a residency at The LINQ since 2015; Grace VanderWaal, who pursued acting as well as music; and Darci Lynne Farmer, who toured the U.S. with her puppet act. Bianca Ryan returned to singing after surgery for paralyzed vocal cords and a 10-year hiatus. Opera singer Neal E. Boyd died in 2018, aged 42.
After their 2023 win, Adrian Stoica and his dog Hurricane performed worldwide and headlined an AGT Las Vegas show. Jessica Sanchez won in 2025 while nine months pregnant, gave birth to her first child the following month and released her debut album, SZN, in May 2025. Deadline reported that Goodall’s life was being turned into a feature film.
