The Voice SA: Let the Battles begin!
During this week’s final Blind Auditions The Voice SA coaches Karen Zoid, Bobby van Jaarsveld, Lira and Kahn Morbee filled the last remaining spots in their teams with more magnificent talent.
Now, with 14 team members each, it’s time to move on to the all-or-nothing Battle Rounds. From next week onwards, The Voice SA episodes will also be a full two hours long, which means that the show will start a half an hour earlier, at 17:00 on Sundays.
For the Battles, each coach will pair up the singers in his or her team to take each other on in a ‘sudden death’ style duet. At the end of this Battle, the coach then has to decide which singer outperformed his or her rival to stay in the competition and proceed to the live shows during which the voting public will also have a say in the outcome of the competition.
These fierce vocal Battles will play out over four episodes, with the live shows starting from Sunday 17 April.
This week, the very last place in Team Bobby was taken up by 24-year-old Nolene Olivier from Johannesburg who studied sound design at AFDA and is dreaming of an illustrious career in the Afrikaans music industry.
She wrote her first song when she was in Grade 10 at Linden High School in Johannesburg and some of her singles have reached the top of the charts on Afrikaans radio stations.
With Nolene, Bobby’s team is made up of plenty of young, spunky, spirited and inspiring singers, including Sumaré van Schalkwyk, Lyle Anthony Volkwyn, Vernon Barnard, Zoe Mtila, Chris Werge, Kim Collins, Gavin Edwards, Chanel Davids, Xanilee Hammond, Abel Knobel, Lana Crowster, Jessica Martins and Mbijana Sibisi.
In one of the most emotional moments of the Blind Auditions, coach Karen Zoid was in tears this week after turning around to find her former back-up vocalist Thapelo Lekoane (29) from Alexandra on stage.
- Press Release