America’s Got Talent has crowned a new winner, and her name is Jessica Sanchez. The 30-year-old singer capped off a moving, decades-long comeback journey on Wednesday night (Sept. 24) and edged out freestyle rapper Chris Turner to win AGT’s 20th season. Sanchez had first auditioned for the show back in 2006 when she was a kid and told Billboard her hard-won emotional victory came after a lifelong dream of wanting to win the legendary talent competition.

“This has been 20 years in the making for me,” Sanchez tells Billboard. “I was on season one when I was ten years old, and just going through all those years of feeling rejected and feeling like a failure, I had to pick myself back up and believe in myself again.”

Sanchez, who embarked on this journey while nine months pregnant, absolutel

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