Kudos to Lady Gaga for being every bit as strange as we knew she would be as an Idol mentor. Kudos to Nigel Lythgoe for allowing the Idols to sing at least one current song tonight. Limiting them to Leiber and Stoller tunes all evening at this stage of the competition would have been criminal….
Santa Cruz, Calif., and Garner, N.C., are ready for homecoming celebrations. So are Rossville, Ga., and Wheeling, Ill. Now all they need is for their respective Idols to survive just one more elimination show. As has become Idol tradition, the final three will be treated to a visit home this weekend. That visit will include…
Competition began in earnest on The Voice Tuesday night. And, suddenly, the voice didn’t matter quite so much. At least that was my take on the judges’ decisions about which singers to send packing. Remember, The Voice began with blind auditions, and made a big deal of the fact that judges couldn’t see the contestants…
The battle rounds start tonight on “The Voice,” where team members go head to head for a chance to advance on the show. And, get this, the judge of each team has to decide which contestant to send home. Wow, can you imagine Steven Tyler or Jennifer Lopez put in that position. It might take…
The battle rounds begin tonight on The Voice. Here’s a look at who will be competing to advance on Cee Lo Green’s team. Vicci Martinez (defeated Nikki Dawson in Battle Round) This 26-year-old is among the more seasoned singer-songwriters on The Voice, with CDs to her credit dating as far back as 2003 (“Sleep to…
The battle rounds begin tonight on The Voice. Check out the members of Team Adam Levine who will be hoping to advance. Jeff Jenkins This 22-year-old from Jones Creek, Texas, got all four judges to spin their chairs with his version of “God Bless the Broken Road.” He dedicated his performance to his mother, who…
The battle rounds begin tonight on The Voice. Meet the members of Team Christina Aguilera who will be competing to advance. Tarralyn Ramsey (defeated by Frenchie Davis in Battle Round) A gospel singer, she has released three albums, a self-titled CD in 2000, “Tarralyn” in 2004 and “Beyond the Darkness” in 2009. The first two…
The battle rounds begin tonight on The Voice. Meet the members of Team Blake Shelton who will be competing to advance. Patrick Thomas (defeated Tyler Robinson in Battle Round) This 20-year-old from Nashville was the first country singer to audition on The Voice and, of course, landed with coach/judge Blake Shelton after singing “Live Like…
I wonder how our remaining American Idol contestants reacted when told that this week’s theme is the songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Hey, the duo has plenty of hits songs to their credit. But many not only pre-date Idol’s final four, they probably pre-date the final four’s parents. With so much at stake…
Funny how things work out. Nine weeks ago, Casey Abrams was a favorite to win American Idol. Haley Reinhart, his special musical friend, was an afterthought, a longshot, sure cannon fodder on a show that preferred guys with guitars. Flash forward to mid-May. Casey is gone, finishing sixth. Haley? She’ll be performing with the top…
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