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AGT 2008 Winner MO Man Neal Boyd Dies At Mother’s Home In Sikeston At 42

Neal Boyd, an opera singer and aspiring politician, who won NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” has died. He was 42.

Boyd died around 6 p.m. Sunday at his mother’s house in Sikeston, MO., said Scott County Coroner Scott Amick.

Amick says Boyd had a number of medical problems, including heart failure, kidney failure and liver problems. He was seriously injured in a car crash in 2017. source

Boyd won top honors on the network TV show and its $1 million prize in 2008. He released the album “My American Dream” in 2009, and performed at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.

Boyd also ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for a southeast Missouri House of Representatives seat, losing in the general election in 2012 and in the primary in 2014.

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