The panel of judges, composed by David Hasselhoff, Brandy and Piers Morgan were amazed by the way the 11-year-old Bianca Ryan sang the Janis Joplin classic 'Piece of My Heart' for the finale of the relatively successful 'America's Got Talent', aired last night on NBC.

The young singer managed to captivate the three judges and the thousands of viewers who voted for her and made her the winner of the million-dollar prize. The Mayfair-born little performer was so stunned about her being chosen out of the other nine finalists that she immediately burst into tears and revealed her real age, as opposed to her mature rendering of the songs with which she conquered the listeners.

After she came out of the first shock, she gathered enough voice to say that she still couldn't believe she was the winner. But her father did know what to say and, during a phone conversation, said that he had always been confident in his daughter's guaranteed success.

When asked what Bianca was going to do with the money, Shawn Ryan said: 'I don't know. First, she wants to donate to some different charities... College, I guess. She says she wants to put some money aside [for her siblings to go to college, too]'. After that, she would 'like to take her girlfriends on a shopping spree'.

Both Bianca and her father have big plans in what respects her future career. Bianca is hoping that her appearance on the 'America's Got Talent' show (whose finale ranked high for more than 11.5 million viewers) will eventually lead to her signing some record deals.