Connor Doran is an indoor kite

Kite

A kite is a tethered aircraft. The necessary lift that makes the kite wing fly is generated when air flows over and under the kite's wing, producing low pressure above the wing and high pressure below it. This deflection also generates horizontal drag along the direction of the wind...

 flier, performing to music with four-line

Kite line

Kites have a wing and a kite line , or sometimes more than one line. Kite systems may have more than one kite and more than one kite line....

 kites. He is best known for reaching the top 12 finalists of the fifth season of America's Got Talent

America's Got Talent (season 5)

The fifth season of America's Got Talent, an American television reality show talent competition, premiered in the United States on the NBC network and on Canada's Global on June 1, 2010...

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Connor is from Bend

Bend, Oregon

Bend is a city in and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States, and the principal city of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bend is Central Oregon's largest city, and, despite its modest size, is the de facto metropolis of the region, owing to the low population...

, Oregon

Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...

, United States and began kite flying in 2007 to ease his epilepsy

Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by seizures. These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or hypersynchronous neuronal activity in the brain.About 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, and nearly two out of every three new cases...

-induced anxiety. His participation in America's Got Talent was notable. and notable as an epilepsy advocate: "I used to live in fear of my epilepsy, but when I'm flying my kite, I don't even think about it, I hope my experience helps others build confidence too." In an earlier season, an indoor kite flier experienced technical difficulties, which Doran did not. He was eliminated in the Las Vegas round of the competition, but then was brought back. He made it an extra round in to the top 24, but was eventually eliminated.

America's Got Talent

Week	Song Performed To	Performance order	Result
Audition	"Angel Angel (Sarah McLachlan song) "Angel" is a song by Sarah McLachlan that originally appeared on her 1997 album Surfacing. As McLachlan explained on VH1 Storytellers, the song is about the Smashing Pumpkins touring keyboard player Jonathan Melvoin, who overdosed on heroin and died in 1996."Angel" was McLachlan's second top 5 hits... "	N/A	Sent to Vegas
Vegas Week		N/A	Eliminated
Wild Card	"You Raise Me Up You Raise Me Up "You Raise Me Up" was the debut single from Westlife's fifth studio album, Face To Face.This version is considered by many to be the most popular , of all the various versions of the same song. The single peaked at #1 on the UK Singles Chart, making it the band's 13th Number One. It was the first... "	9	Safe
Top 24	"Fireflies Fireflies (Owl City song) "Fireflies" is a song and the debut single from synthpop artist Owl City's album Ocean Eyes. Relient K vocalist Matt Thiessen is featured as a guest vocalist in the song... "	6	Eliminated Judges' Choice Buzzed by Piers Morgan Piers Morgan Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan , known professionally as Piers Morgan, is a British journalist and television presenter. He is editorial director of First News, a national newspaper for children....

External links

• "EpilepsyFoundation: America's Got Talent Connor Doran", YouTube.com.
• "Connor Doran - The Indoor Kite Flyer", Facebook.com.
• "America's Got Talent: Contestants: Semifinalists: Connor Doran", NBC.com.
• "Epilepsy Foundation: Advocacy: Public Policy Institute: Connor Doran's Bio", EpilepsyFoundation.org.