Murrysville twins advance on 'America's Got Talent'
Twin brothers Colton and Trent Edwards of Murrysville made the cut to advance in the popular TV reality show “America's Got Talent” when they earned three of four judges' votes in their audition on an episode that aired Tuesday on NBC.
Dubbed “Mirror Image,” the siblings, 16, performed a song-and-dance number that won support from celebrity judges Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel and former Spice Girl Mel B. Simon Cowell withheld his approval.
The twins will be juniors at Franklin Regional Senior High School. They live with their parents, Kevin and Gia Edwards.
The boys have been jointly expressing their talents all their lives, their father said. Posts on their Twitter account for their act show them performing at a function of the New York City Dance Alliance and practicing during a visit to the beach.
The brothers are students at Appolonia Leake Dance Company in Penn Hills and formerly attended DeStella Dance Centre in Export.
They competed at recent dance conventions in Pittsburgh. According to their mother, they placed third with their duet at an NYCDA event and each placed with a solo performance at a NUVO convention.
At a Velocity convention, each won a Maximum Velocity Artist scholarship, but they were unable to attend that organization's national competition.
