Angelica Hale is an American child singer from Atlanta, Georgia. She competed in the 12th season of America's Got Talent, where she became the runner-up. At the age of four, Hale contracted a severe bacterial pneumonia, causing septic shock and multiple organ failures, including her kidneys and permanent scarring in her right lung. In 2013, after spending a total of 80 days at the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Hale received a life-saving kidney transplant from her mother, Eva.