The voice finale4/2/2023 ![]() “Not as rich and complex as you want an operatic voice to be,” he said. (I asked Zachary Woolfe, who writes about classical music for The New York Times, for thoughts on Mr. For him this show was less an opportunity to sing pop songs operatically than to sing them stiffly, a desire that’s disproportionately rewarded on televised singing competitions. Mann’s humility about the size of his voice rang consistently false. For her troubles she came in second and was saddled with performing alongside the charmless hip-hop exoskeleton Flo Rida on Tuesday’s finale show. For much of the season she was lost in a late-1960s Janis Joplin haze, both powerful and spacey. Simms actually fills a need in the marketplace: There are few female singers in hard rock (outside Christian rock, that is), and she’s a worthy one. Both Javier Colon, the winner, and Dia Frampton, the runner-up, were onetime major label artists, albeit only moderately successful ones.) ![]() ( Last year’s top two finalists were pros too. Green’s pick Juliet Simms fronted a band, Automatic Loveletter, that was signed to Epic and Tony Lucca, Adam Levine’s selection, had been a member of “The Mickey Mouse Club” in his teenage years. Chris Mann, from Christina Aguilera’s team, was a classically trained opera singer who had worked with the trad-pop swami David Foster Mr. The show’s amateurism is also a myth: this year each of the four finalists was a professional through and through. And then, in the later rounds, they are voted on and eliminated like singers on any old competition show. Contestants may be chosen for their voices, but they are screened. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly,” which he had sung on Monday night’s final competition, the latter half of which was his first loose, risky and truly invested performance of the season.īut “The Voice” is, stealthily, an endorsement of the old way of doing things. Paul, who as a former backup singer for Alicia Keys came to the competition extremely polished, started out slick and burly and ended the season an underdog brimming with hope.Īfter he was announced as the winner of the second season of “The Voice,” which came to a conclusion Tuesday night on NBC, he reprised his version of R. Paul probably didn’t figure to become one of them, but that’s what happened over the course of the season. Shelton’s collection of feel-good stories. Paul would be one of several heavyweights, but surely Mr. Shelton, and it seemed, at the time, to be a strategic decision. Two of the show’s four coaches turned their chairs to face him: Cee Lo Green, a whimsical eccentric who’s attracted to idiosyncratic vocal powerhouses, and Blake Shelton, a gentle soul who often appears to be guided by emotion and gut more than talent.Īfter some theatrical hemming and hawing, Mr. ![]() In his initial blind audition, he sang Avril Lavigne’s bratty “Complicated” with muscle and imagination, if not total grace. At the outset of the second season of “The Voice” Jermaine Paul was all about business.
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