<P> On the June 7 , 2016 , broadcast during the eleventh season of NBC 's AGT , VanderWaal auditioned with her original song , `` I Do n't Know My Name '' , and was Howie Mandel 's `` golden buzzer '' act . Simon Cowell called VanderWaal `` the next Taylor Swift . '' Brittany Spanos in Rolling Stone magazine termed the song an `` emotional , catchy , quirky tune '' . VanderWaal continued to perform only original songs on the show , including her next performance at the quarterfinals on August 23 , 2016 , titled `` Beautiful Thing '' , a song written for her sister ; USA Today characterized VanderWaal 's voice as `` endearingly croaky '' . Others have called it `` raspy '' and `` timelessly soulful '' . For the semifinals on August 30 , she performed `` Light the Sky '' , and for the September 13 finals , she sang `` Clay '' , a song about dealing with bullies . Lindsay Peoples wrote for New York Magazine : `` The songs she wrote and performed on AGT were not only catchy but emotional and unique to her own sound , a mix of raw and folk '' . AGT 's video of VanderWaal 's audition has accumulated more than 70 million views . It was ranked as the No. 5 trending YouTube video of 2016 . </P>
<P> On the June 7 , 2016 , broadcast during the eleventh season of NBC 's AGT , VanderWaal auditioned with her original song , `` I Do n't Know My Name '' , and was Howie Mandel 's `` golden buzzer '' act . Simon Cowell called VanderWaal `` the next Taylor Swift . '' Brittany Spanos in Rolling Stone magazine termed the song an `` emotional , catchy , quirky tune '' . VanderWaal continued to perform only original songs on the show , including her next performance at the quarterfinals on August 23 , 2016 , titled `` Beautiful Thing '' , a song written for her sister ; USA Today characterized VanderWaal 's voice as `` endearingly croaky '' . Others have called it `` raspy '' and `` timelessly soulful '' . For the semifinals on August 30 , she performed `` Light the Sky '' , and for the September 13 finals , she sang `` Clay '' , a song about dealing with bullies . Lindsay Peoples wrote for New York Magazine : `` The songs she wrote and performed on AGT were not only catchy but emotional and unique to her own sound , a mix of raw and folk '' . AGT 's video of VanderWaal 's audition has accumulated more than 70 million views . It was ranked as the No. 5 trending YouTube video of 2016 . </P>
who wrote the song i dont know my name
who wrote the song i dont know my name
VanderWaal
VanderWaal