Season 26 kicks off Monday night with the coaching quartet of Gwen Stefani, Reba McEntire, Michael Buble and Snoop Dogg.
Here’s more about Tsola.
* She’s Tsola Akuya, now L.A. based, but born and raised in Silver Spring, Md., and she arrives at The Voice with an impressive performance resume.
* That said, during the early part of Tsola’s career, the performances came in the form of dance, not music.
* According to her website bio, Tsola began taking dance lessons — ballet, tap and jazz — at age 5 and eventually got into competive dance.
* After high school, she attended at Morgan State University as a fine art major for a semester, then the University of Maryland Baltimore County as a dance major before a dance agency lured her to L.A.
* That’s where the impressive resume begins. She became one of Pharrell Williams core dancers and also danced backup for Ciara, Kelly Rowland, Kanye West, Nicki Minaj and Pink, according to that web bio.
* She expanded her talent to choreography and assisted in choreographing H.E.R. 2021 BET perofrmance of “We Made It.”
* Her first singing job came in 2022, and it was an impressive one. She was one of eight background singers for Beyonce’s 2022 Oscar performance of “Be Alive.”
* In the meantime, she started recording her own music and released a debut EP called “Manu” in 2020.
* She followed that up with a second EP, “Winning Streak” in 2022. The title track and “Take About a Week” from that project are her most popular songs on Spotify to date.
* Tsola’s most recent release dropped in March, a single called “Seven Days in One.” “I literally cried playing this song for the first time on streaming platforms,” she wrote on Instagram. “Seven Days in One. My baby. My art. My story. Out now for all to hear after two years of not releasing music. Whew.”
* In her Spotify bio, Tsola says her originals are influenced by her love of electronic and neo-soul music and calls herself “a lyricist who harpts on the importance of rawness and vulnerability through sharing her testimony and life experiences.”
* Below, check out her song “Time Four(s),” which she calls one of her favorite creations to date. And, yep, she handled the choreography as well as the music.
Tsola on social media:
Instagram
TikTok
Facebook
YouTube
Related Posts
-
March 31, 2025 -
March 30, 2025 The knockout matches set for Monday night on The Voice
-
Featured Music
Daddy's Mugshot
Laci Kaye Booth, Top 5 on American Idol Season 17, dropped a new single Friday. And if you somehow missed her 2024 album, "Loneliest Girl in the World," do yourself a favor and check it out!
Aaron Rizzo Adam David Alanna Lynise Angie Rey Ari Camille BDII (Brian Darden) Braxton Garza Britton Moore Carlos Santiago Conor JamesMORE BELOW
The Voice Season 27 Profiles
The Voice Season 27 Profiles
Darius J.
Dennis Lorenzo
Dimitrius Graham
Ethan Eckenroad
Fran
Hailey Wright
Iris Herrera
Jacquelyn George
Jaelen Johnston
Jay Ammo
Jayden Cree (Olesen)
Jessica Manalo
Lucia Flores-Wiseman
Naomi Soleil
Nell Simmons
Olivia Kuper Harris
Page Mackenzie
Ricardo Moreno
Robert Hunter
Simone Marijic
Tatum Scott
Tori Templet
Trevon Dawson
American Idol Season 19 Profiles
Featured Music
'Treasure' indeed
Laci Kaye Booth, Top 5 on American Idol Season 17, dropped her debut album Aug. 6. Her debut single, the ridiculously addictive "Treasure," heads to country radio in mid-September.
Archives
-
American Idol Hollywood Week photo gallery
April 1, 2025 By Mark Franklin -
Angie Rey, Kolby Cordell nab steals on The Voice
March 31, 2025 By Mark Franklin -
Top 10 on American Idol in Hollywood
March 31, 2025 By Mark Franklin -
The American Idol guys — Who advanced and who didn’t
March 31, 2025 By Mark Franklin -
American Idol ladies — who advanced and who didn’t
March 31, 2025 By Mark Franklin
-
Song by song grades for the Top 8 on American Idol
April 29, 2024 By Mark Franklin -
Iam Tongi scores an Apple Music hit for American Idol
May 19, 2023 By Mark Franklin -
Song by song grades for the Top 12 on The Voice
December 4, 2023 By Mark Franklin -
Song by song grades for the Top 14 on American Idol
April 21, 2024 By Mark Franklin -
Song by song grades for American Idol’s Top 24, Group 2
April 8, 2024 By Mark Franklin
-
-
We haven’t heard the last from David Archuleta
February 21, 2011 By Mark Franklin -
Meet American Idol contestant Hollie Cavanagh
January 30, 2012 By Mark Franklin -
Meet American Idol contestant Jessica Sanchez
February 5, 2012 By Mark Franklin -
Meet American Idol contestant Phillip Phillips
January 19, 2012 By Mark Franklin
Post-Voice Music
Recent Voice Views Interviews
-
American Idol Hollywood Week photo gallery
April 1, 2025 By Mark Franklin -
Angie Rey, Kolby Cordell nab steals on The Voice
March 31, 2025 By Mark Franklin -
Top 10 on American Idol in Hollywood
March 31, 2025 By Mark Franklin
-
Song by song grades for the Top 8 on American Idol
April 29, 2024 By Mark Franklin -
Iam Tongi scores an Apple Music hit for American Idol
May 19, 2023 By Mark Franklin -
Song by song grades for the Top 12 on The Voice
December 4, 2023 By Mark Franklin
-
-
We haven’t heard the last from David Archuleta
February 21, 2011 By Mark Franklin -
Meet American Idol contestant Hollie Cavanagh
January 30, 2012 By Mark Franklin
Post-American Idol Music
M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
28 | 29 | 30 |
Leave a reply