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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