The Voice SA

Before we go to this week of The Voice SA I thought it best to give you a glimpse of what transpired last week.

I was seated on the left side of the stage which allowed me to see the talent from the sides most of the time and I would watch in awe of the talent we have in South Africa until Zoe (whom was the last contestant to take the stage). She gave an extremely dramatic performance that led me to looking at nothing but her lip movement and the projected sound from the speakers, it wasn’t matching. So I looked around the stage to see if I’m going to spot backing vocalists as I had scanned the stage prior but there weren’t any. I was then convinced they were giving us the Beyonce Live performances which technically is not live but live. hehehe

After the show I went to ask the show’s director Darren of my suspicions, he admitted that their talent had backing sounds prerecorded prior the show to give it that world class/standard sound but they were singing live to us… making sense?

And this what was sung:

#TeamBobby

• Austin Lurring opened the show with the local hit, “Raphael” by Beatenberg.
  
• Xanilee Hammond sang Adele’s “Fire To The Rain”. flat but passable.
• Gavin Edwards  performed “Second Hand Heart” from Kelly Clarkson and Ben Haenow. I was mot blown away.
  

#TeamKaren

• Jono Grayson, gave it his all with Michael Bublé’s version of the old classic, “Feelin’ Good”.  he didn’t do justice to the song, i kept on waiting for him to break the shell but he never did.

• Thapelo Lekoane, sang the Bon Jovi anthem, “Living’ On a Prayer” as a ballad. as I write this I can’t recall his performance
• Almur Marais performed Just Jinger’s “What He Means”.

• Clemour Ngobeni gave it a go with Drake’s “Hotline Bling”. I loved Clemour the first time they went live and I still love him. the boy is talented.

• Prime Zulu sang Meatloaf’s hit, “I’d Do Anything For Love”.
• Richard Stirton performed “Don’t You Worry Child” from Swedish House Mafia.
  

• Jono Johansen performed the Avicii hit “Wake Me Up”. All i can remember is his body not his performance.
  

• Robin Pieters sang Beyoncé’s “Listen”  i was not convinced at all. he was strained and his entire performance was underwhelming.
  

• Jeremy Olivier (40) from Cape Town, who performed James Morrison’s “Broken Strings”.
  
• This boy blew me away shem! big ups to him representing blind folks infact wonke umntu. get up and get yours irrespective of your circumstances!

• Zoe, Thembeka and the other two guys were saved from eliminations for this week.

See you Sunday!!!

Zeeba (c)

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