Magician Shin Lim Wins “America’s Got Talent: The Champions”

Some of the most successful talent show participants gathered on the stage of America’s Got Talent: The Champions and wowed the whole world with their skills, but only one came out victorious.

Magician Shin Lim was crowned as the winner, after he managed to astonish everyone in the audience with one of his incredible card tricks.

This marks Lim’s second victory on the America’s Got Talent stage since she recently won Season 13 of this popular talent show. Singing ventriloquist Darci Lynne Farmer came in second, while Ukrainian sand artist Kseniya Simonova finished in the third spot.

Before becoming a close-up magician, Shin Lim pursued education in music and used to play violin and piano. He started practicing magic on his own, and used YouTube as his main source of inspiration, but eventually started developing original tricks.

Lim was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome at the age of 20, and had to pick between music and magic. He opted for magic and it proved to be the right choice, since he found enormous success in the last few years.

America’s Got Talent winner doesn’t describe himself as a magician or a trickster, but a “sleight-of-hand artist” who’s trying to make card magic more artistic and visual. Watch this trick he performed with Brooklyn Nine-Nine actress Melissa Fumero and see for yourself if he accomplished this goal.