Thai teen Nene Royal wins AGT 2026 title

5 minutes ago, ronster said:

Good she won as she's amazing at performing and playing guitar for her age .

The prize payout is a joke as she can collect roughly 1 million bht a year for 40 years or a lump sum heavily taxed which would leave her around $400,000 out of a million prize money. The judges on the show get millions per year and I bet they don't need wait 40 year's.

My wife said there is some foreigner that spotted her years ago and was the one that got her to America. They kept posting to the show about her and kept getting turned down for auditions. This season they said ok we will audition her and the foreigner paid for her to go to America to audition.

Also she seemingly only started playing guitar as the school class for computers was full so she had to go into the music class where she picked it up easily.

Yes, Sean.

And then there was Strit, who gifted her that legendary Ibanez guitar.

It takes a village...

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by tomazbodner

4 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Howie the AGT judge said she was better than Hendrix .

That's where the Hendrix comparison started actually.

She has raw talent.

Managed well and with a lot of good luck she might have a major career.

Maybe anyway.

She is only 16. Watch her on you tube playing at age 8 or so to see her natural talent. Supposedly never had a lesson. Hendrix had natural talent as well. She is not Hendrix and Hendrix was not her. That is part of what makes both of them great. Sadly Hendrix died way too young so we will never know what could have been. I do not know if Hendrix was playing at age 6 but I don't think so. She may become one of the all time greats or she may fade away. Time will tell. But no matter what she is one of the best 16 y.o. kids I have ever seen play a guitar. Go Nene. Congratulations.