Kenichi Ebina was a dancer from Season 8 of America’s Got Talent. He was the winner of the competition, winning $1,000,000 and the headlining of a show at Las Vegas and an America’s Got Talent tour. Kenichi returned for America’s Got Talent: The Champions where he was eliminated in the Preliminaries.

Kenichi Ebina is a solo self-taught dance performer, started out dancing Freestyle HipHop and expanding his style to Poppin’, Lockin’, Mime, House, Jazz, Contemporary and Ethnic dance.

In 2001, Kenichi founded a dance group with all Japanese dancers, BiTriP. BiTriP won in the final grand championship of “Amateur Night” at the world famous Apollo Theater in 2001 as the first Japanese performer. In 2007, Kenichi appeared on dance contest of “Showtime at the Apollo” as a solo performer and became the grand champion of 2007 season after winning 7 times. Kenichi is the only two-time grand champion in the Apollo theater history.

Kenichi has been performing at many events, TV shows and teaching in the United States, Europe, Russia, China, Korea, Singapore, Japan, Morocco and Australia. Kenichi has also performed, directed and choreographed for many projects and dance and theater companies.

Ebina Performing Arts’s first full-length show premiered at USA’s national Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Also, Kenichi was invited as a speaker to TED 2007. Kenichi has appeared on the show, PBS Kids “Angelina Ballerina” as a featured dance performer. Occasionally he has been performing for high class show club, “The BOX” in NYC and London, and “The ACT” in Las Vegas. 1