The Voice returns Monday night with the second half of the playoffs. For Season 23, The Voice split up the playoffs over two episodes, in fact, over two weeks. Members of Team Blake and Team Chance performed Monday night. And that’s not the biggest change this spring. That would be the fact that voters,…
Monday’s eliminations on American Idol included the only remaining platinum ticket holder and my favorite female voice on the show. But if you’re a fan of Tyson Venegas or Marybeth Byrd, you can continue to support them by streaming the music they’ve already released. Marybeth and Tyson have both released music since Season 21 of…
The Top 8 return to the stage Sunday night on American Idol with five spots in the Season 21 semifinals on the line. Ah, but Katy Perry and Lionel Richie will be in England, performing at the coronation for King Charles III. So Idol has called on Alanis Morissette and Ed Sheeran to be…
Okay, you know Blake Shelton had to have a country singer in the semifinals for his last season on The Voice. Thing is, I think he picked the wrong country singer Monday night. With Noivas a shoe-in to make the semis, it came down to Grace West or Mary Kate Connor. Mary Kate, 18,…
Chalk up a second major rookie mistake by Chance the Rapper in his first season as a Voice coach. First, he let Noivas, a potential winner, be stolen away by Team Blake. Then he advanced Ray Uriel to the semifinals Monday night, despite clearly stronger performances from Jamar Langley and Kayla Banham. If he’s…
And American Idol now has a Top 8. That Top 8 includes Iam Tongi, Colin Stough, Warren Peay, Haven Madison, Megan Danielle, We Ani and Zachariah Smith. It also includes Oliver Steele, who was unexpectedly saved at the end of Monday’s Top 10 performance episode. Eliminated Monday were platinum ticket winner Tyson Venegas and former…
Three singers were supposed to go home Monday night on American Idol. As it turned out, only two did. Katy Perry, winner of the Judges Song Challenge, got to save one contestant. After consulting with her colleagues, she decided to award that save to Oliver Steele. That meant the elimination of Tyson Venegas and…
If you expected Nutsa to be “devastated” by her elimination from American Idol Sunday night, think again. By the end of the evening, the 26-year-old from Georgia had posted an impassioned thank you to fans and American Idol. More than anything, she was assuring those fans that she plans to continue her dream of…
