Before her audition on America's Got Talent (AGT), 19-year-old Summer Rios told judges Howie Mandel, Simon Cowell, Sofia Vergara and Heidi Klum a little about herself.
"I actually am a manager at Pizza Hut, so I make pizzas for a living," Rios said. "I've been there for about a year. I did work with my ex at one point, but he's no longer in the picture. So now it's just me. So I'm working a lot of morning to closes, trying to still pay my bills and stuff, and I'm hoping that this will get me out of pizza. Cutting and pizza making."
Rios added that although she's been singing since age 4, she's not used to doing it in front of crowds, so she entered AGT "to make music a thing and try to put myself out there and not have so much anxiety."
Once Rios launched into Zach Bryan's "Something in the Orange," it was easy to tell that she'd been singing for about 15 years. It was hard to tell that she wasn't used to having an audience in her hands as crowd reactions fueled her stunning performance.
"You know, Summer, I think you should be doing this more than slicing pizza," Mandel responded. "I feel like we've just got a peek at what you can do and you needed to open this door a crack, and you've opened it more than a crack to just take off."
The other judges brought similar praise, with Klum saying that Rios sounded like she'd "swallowed Rhianna."
After "yeses" from all four judges, host Terry Crews asked Rios if she's prepared for her life to change forever.
"Oh, I'm so ready! I'm so done with cutting pizzas," she responded. "I smell like pizza every night, and I don't want to do that."
