Bianca Taylor Ryan (born September 1, 1994) is an
American singer, songwriter, musician and actress from
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ryan was the first winner of
NBC's
America's Got Talent at the age of eleven. She auditioned for
Talent in 2006 and amazed the judges with her big voice. Singing two
Broadway show tunes along the way, Ryan was announced as the winner of season one on August 17. Her
eponymous first album was released later in 2006, followed by two Christmas albums. Two singles followed in 2007 and 2010; also in 2010, she made an acting appearance in a music video by
The Wrecking. The video for her first new release in four years, a cover of the
John Legend song "
All of Me", was posted to her
YouTube channel in March 2014. Her original song "Alice" was self-released in May 2015.