There are some voices that genuinely make you stop in your tracks - Courtney Hadwin is one of them. In 2025, the Durham-born singer-songwriter unveiled her long-awaited debut album,

Many will already know of Hadwin thanks to her famed audition on America's Got Talent in 2018. In what rapidly became one of the most-viewed auditions in the show's history, the 13-year-old Hadwin - blew everyone away with a fearless rendition of Otis Redding's 1968 classic "Hard to Handle".