When Samantha Meave Pearson was busking in front of Ontario’s Niagara Fallsview Casino in October, she expected a few people might stop and listen — but never imagined they would include Howie Mandel, the world-famous comedian and a judge for Canada’s Got Talent.
“I didn’t think in a million years that this would’ve happened,” the 26-year-old Hamilton singer, whose stage name is Meave, told CBC Hamilton.
“He told me I could go right then and there and audition on stage.”
Moments later, she stood in front of the judges, singing an a capella version of the House of the Rising Sun by the Animals.
Now, Meave is
