The Voice‘s blind auditions proceed on Monday (February 24), and not less than one contestant may have the entire teaching panel on their toes. In TV Insider’s unique sneak peek on the episode, Lucia Flores-Wiseman, a 22-year-old from Maple Valley, Washington, knocks everybody’s socks off together with her highly effective efficiency of “La llorona” by Ángela Aguilar.
Adam Levine‘s chair turns on the first notice, and Michael Bublé rapidly follows. It doesn’t take lengthy for coaches Kelsea Ballerini and John Legend to observe swimsuit upon listening to her soulful supply of the Spanish-language tune.
“What’s your identify, you magical human being?” Kelsea Ballerini asks first. After Lucia’s reply, Ballerini provides, “That made me weirdly emotional. Did you guys really feel that?”
“If it didn’t, you guys don’t have a soul,” Levin jokes in response.
“I used to be very teary,” Ballerini continues. “Effectively, no notes. I actually simply wish to be alongside in your journey. I wish to be a sounding board while you want it. You will have a God-given voice.”
Levine places on a tough promote instantly to say, “It’s very uncommon when somebody has all of it: the emotion, the precision. That is my seventeenth season doing the present, and I simply wish to fall head over heels in love with a singer and their voice that I believed was singular and that I had by no means heard something like earlier than, and right here you might be.”
Legend takes a leaf from the Blake Shelton playbook, although, and asks about her story, and she or he explains, “My influences have been Brandi Carlile… I play at airports, I play at weddings, something you’ll be able to think about.” Legend, conveniently, is married to fellow Washington native Chrissy Teigen and has a present upcoming close by, too.
After a short interruption try by the vigilant Levine, Legend continues, “Listening to you sing that tune, it was like Janis Joplin and Amy Winehouse had been singing in Spanish, which was such an fascinating mixture of issues. That is why we love music a lot: as a result of we get to listen to folks such as you kicking the ass of a tune. You actually kicked its ass. All of us would love to teach you. I definitely would.”
However Levine is undeterred and places on a second pitch: “I gotta inform you a narrative about Brandi Carlile. As a result of what struck me about her was it was a voice that you simply couldn’t ignore as a result of it was so totally different, and while you had been singing — particularly while you had been doing the issues that no person on this planet does — that has the potential to do what Brandi did, which was disrupt and alter the best way that individuals understand what good singing is. And that versatility and that keenness and all of that, you have got all of it in spades,” he tells her.
That’s when Bublé pulls out his finest card and speaks to Lucia in Spanish, a lot to Legend’s chagrin. “I feel it’s my flip now. Isn’t it? I imply, critically, you have got a tremendous voice. I would like you on my crew.” Bublé then continues in English to say, “You’re so distinctive. You’re so superb. If I’m fortunate sufficient, Lucia, that you simply select me, superior. If not, then I’m going to observe each week, and I’m going to cheer for you. Thanks for lifting this complete place up and being so superb.”
As soon as it’s resolution time, and the viewers is shouting recommendation to Lucia, Bublé provides in Spanish, “Don’t hearken to them. It’s in your coronary heart.”
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