'The Voice' Season 18: Cedrice creates sultry magic, Kelly Clarkson calls her 'hottest woman alive'
'The Voice' judges had one final chance to fill up their teams on Monday. Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson and Nick Jonas had eight spots filled up on their team in the previous episode while John Legend had seven. As tonight's episode premiered, all of the coaches completed their team of 10 contestants one after the other leaving John who was still looking for that one final contestant to inspire him enough so that he could push his button. "I am the last coach to fill my team and we are not stopping till I am inspired," he said.
Not a lot of contestants were left to perform but coach John was determined to find the right one to fill the last spot on his team, that was one of the reasons why he didn't push his button for Alison Grace who took to stage in the end minutes of the episode. Entering the stage as the final performer on the blind auditions was Cedrice who performed to the song, 'Fever'.
In the introductory video, we saw her struggle with alopecia at the age of 10 and growing up being bullied. However, she took it all in her stride and she looked really amazing coming into the auditions and she went on to the stage, determined to create magic. Her uber stylish and very sexy approach to the song while delivering the notes as she should've finally motivated John enough to push his button for Cedrice who ended the blind auditions with an absolute bang with her performance and she did garner a lot of praise from the coaches.
"Your voice is electric, smooth, powerful when it has to be," said Nick Jonas. During the performance, it was only Coach John who could turn in his chair as he had an open spot left to fill and the others had to wait it out till the end for their chairs to turn. The audience's reaction coupled with John's visible happiness over scoring the amazing talent on his team gave Kelly a lot of FOMO resulting in her standing in her chair and turning towards the stage to catch a sneak peek of the person belting those notes. "You are so sexy. My gosh, girl! I’m so mad! I would’ve pressed my button,” echoed Kelly post the performance. "We ended it with the hottest woman alive," she continued after Cedrice left the stage.
"You are so classy. You have so much style. No one else looks like you. No one else sounds like you. I’ve been waiting to fill my team with someone special, and Cedrice, you are so special. I am so glad that I waited for you," said coach John.
Fans of the show couldn't stop raving about the closing performance too. "@NBCTheVoice Well @johnlegendthey saved the best for last! Cedrice ...all I can say is WOW!! You brought the !!! #VoiceBlinds" wrote a fan.
Another one wrote, "Cedrice is an inspiration to everyone to what accepting and owning a disease and a difference can show your incredible BEAUTY!! GO GIRL, YOU ROCK!! #TheVoice".
Another tweet read, "@johnlegend #VoiceBlinds John you got an amazing artist in cedrice! Such an authentic voice is she got the moves to man and attitude think she's going to go far"
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