Wondering how the American Idol auditions are going in Baton Rouge today after Mariah’s comments to Barbara Walters and Nicki Minaj’s Twitter tirade? The answer, apparently, is “very well.” Within the last hour (about 7:40 p.m. EST Friday), executive producer Nigel Lythgoe sent out photos via Twitter of both Mariah and Nicki smiling as they…
Sylvia Yacoub made it clear: She’s dedicating her performance on The Voice to her mother. You see, Sylvia was born in Egypt. That’s where her mother, who always loved singing, grew up.
If you fail once at making a team on The Voice, you shouldn’t hesitate to try again. Especially if you’re a guy on a show where aspiring female contestants outnumber the males.
The Voice seems to have gone a little younger this year, and there’s no better example of that than Nathalie Hernandez. The 15-year-old from Dunedin, Fla., told the show she started performing by doing recitals for children. She graduated to local talent competitions, including her hometown teen Idol contest and Largo Teen Idol, which she won…
Want a young singer who’s something of a throwback? Brandon Mahone, 17, of Indianapolis, might be your guy, judging on what we learned during the sixth audition episode of The Voice. The youngster said he was raised on the music of Smokey Robinson, The Temptations and Sam Cooke. “I am a more so classical young…
A doctor prescribed music for Joselyn Rivera when she was 5 years old. Apparently, it worked. On The Voice we learned that Joselyn, 17, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., was born premature and was in and out of hospitals when she was young. By the time she was 5, she was painfully shy and falling behind…
Suzanna Choffel has been a music teacher in Austin and Brooklyn and told The Voice that’s how she makes her living. And she clearly enjoys what she does. “Sometimes you have a really shy kid. By the third lesson, you’ll see something beautiful coming from them and they become more outgoing,” she tells The Voice….
Sam James is one of at least three contestants who tried out for Season 2 of The Voice and failed to make it, then returned for Season 3 and did. Unfortunately, we saw only a tiny snippet of his audition. Especially unfortunate since he sang John Lennon’s “Imagine” and the song performed well on iTunes…
Hey, it’s still early October, but why not start thinking about Christmas, especially in you’re a Scotty McCreery fan. Scotty has a Christmas album coming out Oct. 16, and pre-orders are being taken now. Scotty tweeted about the album this afternoon, thanking fans for making his post-Idol debut go platinum in a matter of weeks….
The Voice struck gold with a judging panel that manages to tease one another and still get along. Well, except for that short-lived little fuss over a Tony Lucca song last year. American Idol seems to be taking the opposite approach. At this point, who needs contestants? Just let Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey battle…
