{"id":4051,"date":"2017-05-04T16:08:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T14:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2017-05-04T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T14:08:56","slug":"the-voice-sa-teaser-its-crunch-time-for-coach-karen-zoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2017\/05\/04\/the-voice-sa-teaser-its-crunch-time-for-coach-karen-zoid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Voice SA Teaser: It’s Crunch Time For Coach Karen Zoid"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Voice SA Knock-Outs: Sunday 7 May<\/strong>
\nIt’s crunch time for coach Karen Zoid<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week on The Voice SA, Kahn Morbee finalised his team for season 2\u2019s spectacular Live Shows, which will be broadcast from the Mosaiek Teatro in Fairland, Johannesburg from Sunday 21 May. Will his eclectic team of singers, including the larger-than-life vocal virtuoso Fatman (40), gruff-voiced Freddy Lalendle (23) and exceptionally talented Zee Gqamana (23) and Craig Lucas (23) be strong enough to turn Kahn into the winning coach for the second year in a row? It all depends on who they will be up against in the teams of Kahn\u2019s fellow coaches Karen Zoid, Lira and Bobby van Jaarsveld.<\/p>\n

This week Sunday (7 May) fans will find out which talent Karen Zoid picks to mentor going forward. Student Amanda Faku (23) from Port Elizabeth already landed the first of the four spots in Karen\u2019s team, knocking out youngster Rick Jansen (18) last week. So now Karen will pair up the remaining members in her team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho will she pit against each other? And who will make it to the pivotal next round? It really is crunch time for #TeamKaren now,\u201d says M-Net\u2019s Head of Publicity, Lani Lombard. \u201cRemember, this year\u2019s live shows are going to be even bigger and better. They will play out in front of a bigger live audience and not all of the coaches will necessarily have a team member in the finals. Karen currently has a very strong team in the Knock-Outs and will have to make some tough calls this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

The following six talent will perform for the coveted spots in the Lives in #TeamKaren during this week\u2019s Knock-Out show, after which #TeamLira will take to the stage.<\/p>\n

Celest Schoeman<\/strong> (28) from Standfontein in the Western Cape was up against Marissa Petzer<\/strong> (22) from Stilfontein in her Battle round. Both powerhouse vocalists, who received four chair turns from the coaches in the Blind auditions, were tasked to sing the power ballad \u201cAin\u2019t No Other Man\u201d by Christina Aguilera, and coach Bobby van Jaarsveld thought their performance was \u201cflippin\u2019 phenomenal!\u201d. Coach Karen had a difficult choice to make, and despite having mentored Marissa\u2019s boyfriend Almur Marais into the finals last year, she opted to take Celest through to the Knock-Outs.<\/p>\n

After receiving four chair turns in her Blind audition, Emma Ellis<\/strong> (21) from Port Elizabeth had a difficult road through the Battle rounds when Karen put her up against Christy Woolmington (20) from Johannesburg. Karen gave them the Christina Aguilera ballad \u201cBeautiful\u201d to sing and it was a fitting choice as both singers were struggling with believing in their own abilities throughout the rehearsals ahead of the show. \u201cReal is the new perfect,\u201d Karen advised her talent before they went on stage, and that\u2019s exactly what they managed to demonstrate in their touching rendition of the song. Karen decided to pronounce the person who \u201cknows herself the best\u201d the winner, and that was vivacious Emma.<\/p>\n

Stylish Lindo Sithole<\/strong> (22) from Pietermaritzburg wowed coach Karen when he held his own against a duo \u2013 The Massers \u2013 in the Battle rounds. She gave them the track \u201cMissing\u201d by Everything But The Girl to perform in their sing-off. \u201cShocking!\u201d Lindo lamented, as he had never heard of the song, but with the help of Karen\u2019s long-time muso friend and co-coach Emo Adams, Lindo and John and Lillian Masser did the hard work to turn the song into their own. After the moving performance with some incredible harmonies, Kahn told Karen that he would pick Lindo due to the \u201cfrailty\u201d of his voice and the fact that \u201cit bears his soul when he sings.\u201d Karen agreed and chose Lindo for her Knock-Outs team.<\/p>\n

PJ Pretorius<\/strong> (26) from Secunda received three chair turns from the coaches in his Blind audition before being paired up against Durban\u2019s Chico Muya (24) in the Battle rounds. Coach Karen noted that both of these singers come across as quite young, so she chose a mature love song for them to perform, Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u201cSecret Garden\u201d. \u201cIt\u2019s going to require a lot of emotional maturity,\u201d she warned them. But the young gentlemen delivered in spades and left the coaches scratching their heads. \u201cMy mind is blown, that was so delicate, that was mesmerising,\u201d Lira swooned. But when it came to crunch time, Karen opened the next door for PJ, straight into the Knock-Outs.<\/p>\n

Samantha Leonard<\/strong> (24) from Kimberly earned herself a full house of turns from the coaches in her blistering Blind Audition, before performing against Armand Joubert (21) in a grueling Battle round that had the coaches gob-smacked. The two talent set the stage alight with The Darkness\u2019s \u201cI Believe In A Thing Called Love\u201d, as both Armand and Samantha displayed what Karen called \u201can insane vocal range\u201d. Initially, Samantha lacked some confidence when co-coach Emo Adams joined Karen to prepare them for their Battle, but a pep talk did the trick. Samantha\u2019s boosted confidence coupled with Armand\u2019s natural ability made for one of the most epic Battles of the night. \u201cThat was war! It was absolutely incredible, like something out of a movie!\u201d Lira exclaimed. None of the coaches could give Karen advice on what to do, but due to the immense progress that she demonstrated, Karen chose Samantha as her winner, ushering her into the Knock-Outs.<\/p>\n

Veronique Lalouette<\/strong> (35) from Johannesburg was the final talent in #TeamKaren to make it to the Knock-Outs. The professional musician was to sing against Durban vocal coach Sam Landers (30). \u201cYou\u2019re the \u2018vocal acrobats\u2019 on the team,\u201d Karen told them, so she assigned them the very challenging Mika hit \u201cGrace Kelly\u201d to perform. Co-coach Emo Adams helped them with some dramatic choreography, resulting in a spectacular ending to The Voice SA Season 2 Battles phase. \u201cThis is one of the most difficult songs ever!\u201d Bobby marveled, which meant that coach Karen had a very difficult choice to make. In the end, Veronique\u2019s technical prowess earned her a spot in the next rounds!<\/p>\n

The Voice South Africa, sponsored by Dialdirect, is broadcast every Sunday night on M-Net channel 101 at 17:30 and every Monday night at 18:00 on M-Net City channel 115.<\/p>\n

Viewers can also visit www.mnet.tv\/thevoice<\/a> to watch exclusive interviews with the coaches and talent, and follow all the breaking news and conversations around the show on Twitter @VoiceSA \/ #TheVoiceSA or on the official \u201cVoice SA\u201d Facebook page. You can also download The Voice SA app today for exclusive show-related games and special features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Voice SA Knock-Outs: Sunday 7 May It’s crunch time for coach Karen Zoid Last week on The Voice SA, Kahn Morbee finalised his team for season 2\u2019s spectacular Live Shows, which will be broadcast from the Mosaiek Teatro in Fairland, Johannesburg from Sunday 21 May. Will his eclectic team of singers, including the larger-than-life… Continue reading The Voice SA Teaser: It’s Crunch Time For Coach Karen Zoid<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[21,118],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-mnet","tag-the-voice-sa","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}