The Voice Preview: Contestant Andrew Igbokidi Wows the Judges With Billie Eilish Cover

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The Voice Coaches Share Tactics for New Season

The contention connected The Voice is hotter than ever.

Coaches John Legend, Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton and first-timer Camila Cabello person begun to assemble their teams connected play 22 of the NBC series. And successful E! News' exclusive sneak peek astatine the Sept. 26 unsighted auditions, they each find the benignant of vocalist they're looking for successful contestant Andrew Igbokidi.

The 22-year-old dazzles the sheet with his rendition of Billie Eilish's "when the party's over," managing to crook each 4 of the coaches' chairs around. Immediately aft his performance, Gwen begins her transportation to the young singer.

"There's truthful galore radical that are truthful talented with vocal acrobatics and runs, but the mode that you made them precise emotional, I saw each that," she tells him, adding that helium present gets to stock his endowment with the satellite connected the show.

"I've been doing this a agelong time," she continues. "I'm successful a spot successful my beingness wherever I conscionable privation to assistance people, truthful I would emotion to beryllium your coach."

Just arsenic John begins to recruit Andrew, Camila butts successful to enactment that helium was the past of them to crook his seat around. He defends himself by saying, "When I marque a decision, I marque it with conviction."

Putting his co-star's comments aside, John continues to inquire Andrew astir himself. The Nigerian, Arkansas autochthonal shares that he's been applying to aesculapian schools, and has adjacent been accepted into four different ones.

However, helium is conscionable arsenic passionate astir gathering a vocation successful the euphony industry, telling the judges, "I truly consciousness similar this is my accidental to prosecute it."

Camila thinks the champion mode for him to execute his philharmonic dreams is by joining her team. After all, she was erstwhile a contestant connected a singing contention amusement herself, arsenic she got her commencement with the miss radical Fifth Harmony connected The X-Factor successful 2012.

But Blake besides has thing successful communal with Andrew. "If it's not country, I ever instrumentality retired similar a sore thumb down present due to the fact that it's like, ‘Why would I spell with the state guy?'" helium tells the contestant. "And my reply to that is 'cause you unrecorded successful Arkansas, you're country, too."

The prime is not an casual 1 for Andrew to make, though his parent tells big Carson Daly backstage that she thinks her lad volition prime John arsenic his coach.

Is her conjecture correct? Fans volition person to tune successful to find out.

New episodes of The Voice premiere Mondays and Tuesdays astatine 8 p.m. connected NBC.

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