Career Īfter the success from Holland's Got Talent, during 2014 Willighagen was invited to various TV shows: at South African Internet station Channel24, on 21 March 2014 at Omroep Gelderland (Netherlands), on at Life4You – Carlo & Irene on RTL 4 (Netherlands), on 7 June 2014 at Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel ( Welcome to Carmen Nebel) on ZDF (Germany), at RTL (German TV channel), performing ' I Have a Dream', on 20 August 2014 at Susana Giménez on Telefe (Argentina) and on 21 December 2014 at Du côté de chez Dave on France 3. She won the competition with over 50% of the votes of the TV-viewers and audience. In the final she sang ' Nessun Dorma', from Puccini's opera Turandot. 'You're a star who belongs on stage!', said Dan Karaty, one of the judges, after her performance in the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, she performed Gounod's ' Ave Maria'. Her performance rapidly became a YouTube hit, with over 43 million views, as of August 2022. Willighagen auditioned for Holland's Got Talent and so impressed the judging panel with her version of ' O Mio Babbino Caro' from Puccini's opera Gianni Schicchi that within seconds the judges were staring in awe and disbelief. Indeed, she won the admiration of the jury, the public and millions of people from all over the world who saw her on television and on the Internet. After two years of practice and performance improvement, she was ready to participate in the show Holland's Got Talent. Two of her first public appearances took place in 2012, at the 'Music makes Friends' festival in Colmschate (accompanied by her family) and as a solo singer in the Emmaus Children's Choir, singing a Dutch version of the song ' Nella Fantasia'. Even her mother was surprised when she heard her the first time singing. That's how she discovered her talent and passion for music. At the beginning, before taking singing lessons, Willighagen learned by herself to sing opera arias, using YouTube tutorials. She did not know how to play instruments, so she tried to sing vocally.

In that period she looked at her brother Fincent playing the violin, their mother Frieda also played the violin and the father Gerrit played the piano. At the age of seven, during a holiday in England, she heard the aria ' Nessun Dorma', performed by Luciano Pavarotti. She grew up surrounded by classical music. Amira Willighagen speaks both Dutch and Afrikaans because she was born to a Dutch father and a South African mother whose mother tongue is Afrikaans.

9year old opera singer