The Denver Post

Denver’s La Fontane Umane makes a splash

Group performs water spitting on “America’s Got Talent”

- By Sara Grant Vivian Zink, provided by NBC Sara Grant: 303-954-1638, sgrant@denverpost.com or @itsmesarag

Four dapper gentlemen walked on to the “America’s Got Talent” stage during this week’s premiere. When the group was asked its name, one bow-tie-clad man replied, “La Fontane Umane.”

With such a fancy name, the natural follow-up was: “Where are you from?”

The answer was Denver, Colorado.

After the crowd was done laughing at the unexpected answer for such an Italian name, they took a moment to share what they do for a living, and the traditiona­l answers followed: real estate, advertisin­g, investment banking.

The fourth man added, “I have a podcast with my mom.”

OK, then.

The group announced it would be performing “My Heart Will Go On” by Il Divo. It was go time.

The strings began, and you could almost picture Jack and Rose. But rather than singing, the men began ... spitting water.

Their talent: Being a human fountain. Picture the Bellagio’s fountains — but like, from human mouths.

In the middle of a very fancy choreograp­hed turn, Simon Cowell had enough. From there it gets interestin­g — and that’s before host Tyra Banks joined in.

The rest of the judges and the crowd didn’t agree with Cowell, and the group went on to the next round.

Check out the video on YouTube at https:// bit.ly/2H3hx45.

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