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Over a year after his wife’s death, Matt Mauser roused crowds with an emotional performance on “America’s Got Talent” this week.
The 51-year-old widower of Christina Mauser, who was among the nine people instantly killed in the 2020 helicopter crash which killed Kobe Bryant, moved the audience to a standing ovation with his cover of Phil Collins’ 1984 single “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now).”
“I’m a singer, and I’m here because my wife … and we’re both schoolteachers and we retired from teaching so that I could do the music full-time, and she got the opportunity to coach girls basketball with Kobe Bryant. But on Jan. 26, 2020, I lost my wife in the same helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant,” Mauser, of Huntington Beach, California, told judges ahead of his performance. “Before Jan. 26, me and Christina lived this dreamy kind of life. We met in 2004, she saw me playing at this dive bar and I asked her out and we sat in my car and we talked about music.”
“I’m scared, I think, more than anything … She was warm. She was incredibly bright,” Mauser said on the “Today” show shortly after the California chopper wreck.
The pair were married for 15 years and had three children, who joined Mauser for his audition.
“She was just this very humble, powerful, beautiful human being,” he went on of his late wife. “We were so in love.”
Till the moment he last saw her, the pair were passionately committed to each other.
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