'The Voice' Season 24: Who is Ephraim Owens? Gwen Stefani entices singer as she takes off her jacket
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Ephraim Owens stunned 'The Voice' Season 24 judges with his mindblowing performance in The Blind Audition Premiere, Part 2.
Indianapolis, Indiana native bagged 4 chair turn, making Gwen Stefani claim "I love that, That's cool."
After listening to Ephraim's song, Gwen Stefani took off her long jacket saying, "Let me just take this off so you can see beneath my beautiful." This made all the judges go "woah."
Reba McEntire asked in wonder, "Is this legal?" Niall Horan asked, "What are you doing?" He then joked by holding the phone and pretending to talk to Blake Shelton as he said, "Shelton, we gotta call, she is out at it again."
Ephraim joined the audition round with his wife and daughter. He calls himself a "Husband-Dad-Hobbyist-SneakerHead-Cowboy."
On his social media bio, Ephraim writes, "Catch me in a variety of scenes. Music is a fundamental part of me and how I communicate."
Ephraim revealed to the judges that it's not only he who loves to sing but he has passed on his talent to his daughter as well, who loves to accompany him sometimes.
As Ephraim made all the chairs turn towards the end of his performance, he revealed, "When I found out who the coaches were going to be this year my wife screamed at the top of her lungs and said, "Rebaaaa..."" Ephraim imitated the way his wife screamed.
'The Voice' contestant's Facebook profile reveals that he studied at Florida State University and later went to work at Best Buy. Ephraim also worked as GM at Paws for the Cause.
Ephraim is often seen posting his songs on social media as he records it with his brother, David Owens, and friend.
Ephraim Owens makes all the 4 chairs turn around
Ephraim performed 'Beneath Your Beautiful' by Labrinth. In the first few seconds, Ephraim managed to win John and Niall's hearts. They pressed the buzzer and turned their chair.
Soon after that, John turned around and Reba followed after a few seconds.
As Ephraim sang, his family, wife and daughter, cheered from the backstage. However, Gwen seemed to be most excited with the father of one's performance.
She claimed, "I love your voice so much, You had this soulfulness but this like rock side to you too."
John Legend counters Niall Horan over Ephraim Owens performance
Niall described Ephraim's singing with one word "angst." He said, "Ephraim, the word I would use for it is "angst" and when you feel angst in a singer's voice I think that's the best thing you can have." He then wen on to pitch Ephraim to join his team.
Countering Niall's claims, John dubbed Ephraim's performance to be "urgency." 'All of Me' singer claimed, "He called it angst, I would like to call it urgency."
John continued to praise Ephraim, "You were singing it like your life depended on it which is the powerful thing to witness where you're like mesmerizing as an audience member."
John believed Ephraim executed the song with great vocalist.
Did 'The Voice' Season 24 Ephraim Owens choose Team John Legend?
Ephraim claimed in the show "one of the inspirations" for him to sing is John. He then sang John's newly released song 'Nervous' with his daughter.
As the judges tried hard to make Ephraim pick them, a fan wrote, "I hope he picks John! Beautiful tone."
Since he has made it clear that John is the one he admires the most, the singer ended up picking him as his coach.
After which, a fan wrote, "He has a lot of vocal inflections similar to ""John "".... vocally an excellent story teller.... through song... nice looking (markable) great idea to bring out daughter (likability) audience appeal he knows the game."
'The Voice' Season 24 airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 pm ET on NBC.
