Cardiff’s Glan Taf Boys Choir will sing in the fourth live semi-final of Britain’s Got Talent on Saturday, May 16, after earning four yeses from the judges with a performance that left Simon Cowell emotional.
The roster for the weekend was announced on the official BGT social media platforms on Thursday, May 14, and the boys’ choir is among the acts going through to the live show, which starts at 6pm on ITV1 and ITV X. The pupils in the choir are aged 11 to 18, and their audition performance was Never Enough from The Greatest Showman.
Cowell told the panel he had a “little surprise” before revealing that choirmaster Lloyd Macey had once been a contestant on The X Factor. After the performance, he said, “I actually got quite emotional, this was just brilliant. This is what a great choir is all about. Having fun. Great song choices. Great leader.” He added, “You are going back to Wales with four gigantic yeses.”
Amanda Holden said, “I love that song. The arrangement, the harmonising. I thought you did Wales proud.” Alesha Dixon called Macey “a fantastic leader” and said she enjoyed watching him as much as the choir. Their place in the semi-final comes as the season of Britain’s Got Talent begins to draw to a close, with the grand final pencilled in for Saturday, May 30.
The winner will take home £250,000 and a spot in the Royal Variety Performance, and the Cardiff group now joins a field that has already seen semi-final winners including Matty Juniosa and Anastasiia and her dog Salsa, Sadeck Berrabah and LMA, Fabian Fox, Liwei Yang and comedian Ted Hill. For Glan Taf Boys Choir, the next step is clear: sing again, and try to turn one strong audition into a place in the final.
That is the test now. The judges have already made their view plain, and the choir has one more live stage to prove the first performance was not a one-off.
