The performance and story of Jane Claudio Marczewski broadcast Tuesday evening on NBC as part of the auditions for season 21 of the American talent show made a strong impression.
By discovering the skinny young woman with short hair, a tanned complexion and a dazzling smile, the four members of the jury of “America’s Got Talent” were far from imagining the fight led in the shadows by Jane Claudio Marczewski for several years. “I haven’t been able to do anything professionally lately because I’ve had to deal with cancer”said, without trying to dramatize, this bright resident of Zanesville, Ohio. “During my last scans, there were traces of the disease in my lungs, my spinal cord and my liver.”
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In this 21st season of the American talent show, the 30-year-old singer came to defend her own composition entitled It’s OK, “the story of the last past year of my existence”. In January 2020, an online kitty launched by her brother Mitch raised nearly $ 89,000 to help Jane Claudio Marczewski and her husband finance her expensive treatment. “Jane had breast cancer in the winter of 2017, a 4 centimeter tumor”, can we read on the page of the GoFundMe.com site. After chemotherapy treatment and a double mastectomy, new tumors were detected all over his body in November 2019. His life expectancy was then estimated at 3 months to 4 years. “I’m fine but not completely”she ended up recognizing with the juror Howie Mandel in “America’s Got Talent”. “I have a 2% chance of surviving but 2% is not zero”she says in her presentation. “2% is something and I hope people will see how important it is. I want people to know that I am more than the bad things that happen to me.”
“It’s the most authentic thing I’ve seen this season”
The life story of the one who chose Nightbirde as her artist name inevitably gave a particular emotional dimension to her song It’s OK. Accompanied only on the piano, Jane Claudio Marczewski interpreted her title in a soft and calm voice. “I changed my name thinking it would change my mind, I thought all my problems would stay behind me, I was a stick of dynamite and it was just a matter of time”she sang. “But I can’t hide, say I knew myself but in fact I was lying, it’s OK, even if I’m lost, we all are a little bit and it’s going well.”
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The young woman was warmly acclaimed by an audience unanimously standing to congratulate her performance and her fight. “It’s the most authentic thing I’ve seen this season”reacted Howie Mandel. “Your voice is amazing”added Sofia Vergara, Heidi Klum and Simon Cowell. “You can’t sit idle waiting for life to get better again before you decide to be happy”replied Jane. “There are already a lot of very good singers this season, I’m not going to be able to give you a yes”continued Simon Cowell before getting up to activate the golden buzzer synonymous with direct qualification in the final of “America’s Got Talent”.
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