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"The search for America&amp;#039;s next... vaguely famous singer who you&amp;#039;ll probably never hear of once the season is done is well underway on The Voice, and it&amp;#039;s time for more blind auditions. Let&amp;#039;s not even waste any time and get right to it - you never know what kind of talent we might find!  First up, 25-year-old single father Ray Boudreaux from Louisiana. He wasn&amp;#039;t ready when his daughter - now three years old - was first born - but now he&amp;#039;s sure it&amp;#039;s his time to get famous. His actual singing style is a little different than you might expect - he does Bill Withers&amp;#039; &amp;#039;Use Me&amp;#039;, playing acoustic guitar and really giving it some soul. He&amp;#039;s not really anything special that you wouldn&amp;#039;t find in a number of coffee shops around the country, but whatever.   Blake is convinced pretty quickly, and Cee Lo turns around not long after. Adam teases Blake by hovering over his own button, but eventually decides against it. Adam jokes with him that he looks like Blake and sounds like Cee Lo before saying that he has an &amp;quot;epically cool voice&amp;quot; but he wishes there were fewer gaps. Christina also wonders what happened with the gaps, but Cee Lo appreciates his &amp;quot;blue-eyed soul&amp;quot; and feels that they&amp;#039;re cut from the same cloth. Blake thinks he could lead him to victory again, but it&amp;#039;s up to Ray, and he decides to work with Blake. Next up, it&amp;#039;s Lina Gaudenzi, a 23-year-old from Miami who&amp;#039;s done a lot of &amp;quot;soul searching&amp;quot; in order to get here. She used to be a model (because her mother was, too) and then gained a bunch of weight and discovered her love of singing. She&amp;#039;s thin and conventionally attractive again, by the way (because apparently that matters) and she&amp;#039;s here to sing Fleetwood Mac&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Landslide&amp;#039; - one of my favourite songs! She&amp;#039;s actually not too bad - she has a nice voice and has potential, though I think she needs to chill a bit with some of the vocal affectations.  Christina decides to take a chance on her pretty quickly, and it&amp;#039;s towards the end that Blake turns his chair around, as well. Blake claims he was sold on her from the beginning, but he particularly liked her falsetto at the end. Christina wants to know where she sees herself, and Lina wants to do &amp;quot;bluesy, sultry folk&amp;quot;. Christina then says that genre doesn&amp;#039;t matter (so why ask?) but let&amp;#039;s see who Lina wants to work with. It&amp;#039;s Christina!    Juhi is 16 and from Franklin, Tennessee. She&amp;#039;s a student, but she&amp;#039;d rather be a superstar, so she&amp;#039;s singing Duffy&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Mercy&amp;#039;. She&amp;#039;s taken on a lot of the original singer&amp;#039;s affectations, which is sort of annoying - I don&amp;#039;t feel like we&amp;#039;re hearing a unique voice at all, and I&amp;#039;m pretty sure she wouldn&amp;#039;t sing any other song this way. The judges seem to feel that way, as well, as no one&amp;#039;s turning around. Wait, I spoke too soon! Cee Lo and Christina finally decide they&amp;#039;re into it and turn around. I still think it&amp;#039;s an imitation rather than an original performance, which is a shame. Cee Lo thinks she was &amp;quot;completely cool&amp;quot; and sounded great, while Adam marvels at how young she is. Cee Lo goes on to say that she&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;wonderfully unique&amp;quot; and sounded strong and effortless. Christina tells her that the hardest part is over and now she needs to settle in with a coach and get to work. She also makes her case as the only female coach and wants her to think about what type of artist she wants to be (a cross between Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain - good lord). Juhi eventually decides to work with Cee Lo. Next up, it&amp;#039;s 54-year-old Malford Milligan from Austin, Texas. He worked in cotton fields as a 12-year-old and grew up without money - not to mention he&amp;#039;s a black albino and is legally blind because of it - but he&amp;#039;s here to make his dream come true. He takes on Al Green&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Let&amp;#039;s Stay Together&amp;#039; and does a pretty good job of it. Christina and Adam plan to push but want to wait it out a bit and eventually neither of them do so, meaning no one turns around for Malford.    Justin Blake is 20 and from Savannah, Tennessee - we&amp;#039;ve got ourselves another country boy! He currently drives behind 18-wheelers that transport trailers, and he&amp;#039;s also expecting a baby with his girlfriend - unplanned, as you do. He hopes he can get onto the show, change his life and make more than $8/hr to support his coming family. To do so, he&amp;#039;s singing &amp;#039;Sure Be Cool If You Did&amp;#039;, which just so happens to be a Blake Shelton song. Adam turns around, so he&amp;#039;s in! (He&amp;#039;s okay, by the way - just nothing special). Adam admits that he looked for Blake to approval but eventually decided to go with what he thought, which is that Justin is a great country singer. Blake says that he &amp;quot;picked a good one&amp;quot; and that it took nerve to come out and sing one of his songs. Cee Lo nearly turned around, but Adam is psyched to be working with him. Of course, he&amp;#039;ll probably get cut in the next round, but let&amp;#039;s just let him have his fun for now. Moving right along, it&amp;#039;s Timyra-Joi, a 15-year-old from California who&amp;#039;s been singing since before she could talk, apparently. Her vocal coach is more like family, and in fact Timyra-Joi&amp;#039;s family lived with the coach for six months at one point when her dad lost his job and they needed time to get back on their feet. Now, she hopes to get them &amp;quot;completely out of the struggle&amp;quot; with her music.   Timyra-Joi sings Alicia Keys&amp;#039; &amp;#039;Girl On Fire&amp;#039;, and it only takes Christina a few seconds to push her button. Indeed, she has a really strong voice, incredibly for her age, and it&amp;#039;s kind of insane that no one else is turning around - probably because they assume she&amp;#039;ll automatically go with Christina (and they&amp;#039;re probably right). Just when you think that&amp;#039;s it, however, Blake gets in at the very last second, as does Cee Lo. Well, that was fun.  Christina reminds her that she&amp;#039;s the first to have pushed her button before saying that she was cheering Timyra-Joi on and loved the way she nailed the final run. Adam supports Christina&amp;#039;s coaching abilities as she believes she can mold Timyra-Joi into something special. Cee Lo claims he wants to &amp;quot;nurture and protect&amp;quot; her and be a part of her journey, though Blake - while he thinks Christina has some points - points out yet again that he won last season with a 16-year-old girl. Timyra-Joi decides to work with Christina - smart choice!  Monika Leigh is 28 and ready for the big time after taking a break for a few years. At the ripe old age of 22, she felt like maybe music wasn&amp;#039;t for her anymore since she wasn&amp;#039;t famous already and it was &amp;quot;hard&amp;quot;. Wow, great attitude, girl. She&amp;#039;s now an administrative assistant at a hotel right now and likes it, but it&amp;#039;s no stardom. I kinda can&amp;#039;t stand her already. She&amp;#039;s doing &amp;#039;The Thrill Is Gone&amp;#039; and it&amp;#039;s... okay. She can carry a tune, but her vocals are kinda all over the place and warbly in all the wrong ways. Adam apparently disagrees, though, as does Cee Lo, as they both turn around. She kind of reminds me of a much worse version of Florence Welch.    Blake says that he wants to build his team around her, but Adam does, as well. Adam appreciates that she performed in a &amp;quot;subtle, beautiful&amp;quot; way. Cee Lo loved that she came off so &amp;quot;womanly&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;cool&amp;quot; and embraced the reality of the song. Blake thinks all the markers of a great singer are there and he fell in love with her voice - she has star quality. Who will Monika pick? Well, it&amp;#039;s Blake.  Next up, Zach Hinson is a 21-year-old cowboy from Washington. He&amp;#039;s also a firefighter, but he&amp;#039;d rather be a singer. Today, he&amp;#039;s singing &amp;#039;Drunk On You&amp;#039; (and playing the guitar!) and he&amp;#039;s... average. Something doesn&amp;#039;t seem quite right there, but I can&amp;#039;t figure out what it is. Unfortunately, the coaches must feel that way too because none of them turn around. Aw, better luck next time, Zach.  Next up, Briana Cuoco is her famous sister&amp;#039;s - Kaley Cuoco&amp;#039;s - personal assistant, but she also wants to have her own life and get famous herself. Kaley and their parents are there for her audition, where she&amp;#039;s singing Lady Gaga&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;You and I&amp;#039;. Ouch, it sure starts off pitchy. I feel pretty bad for saying this, but she&amp;#039;s kinda awful and I think Kaley is the only reason she actually got an audition on the show. If anyone turns around, it&amp;#039;ll be for that same reason. Oh look, there&amp;#039;s Christina! I know it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;blind&amp;quot; and all, but... no. Sorry, I don&amp;#039;t buy it. She&amp;#039;s just good enough. Cee Lo gets in at the very last second, as well.   Christina is upset that Cee Lo turned around, but she&amp;#039;s excited because she was struck by the &amp;quot;power&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;raw talent&amp;quot; behind Briana&amp;#039;s vocal. Uh...? She knows it&amp;#039;s hard, but applauds Briana for holding out those notes. Cee Lo jokes that he&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;just a man&amp;quot; in a humble position - he felt her voice and would love to take her to the next level. Eventually, Briana stays true to &amp;quot;girl power&amp;quot; and chooses Christina.  George Horga is the son of Romanian immigrants and his American dream is to get famous. He&amp;#039;s going with Bruno Mars&amp;#039; &amp;#039;Famous&amp;#039; and while I think his vocals are sub-par and he sounds like he&amp;#039;s struggling, Cee Lo likes it and turns around, so it looks like he&amp;#039;s in with a chance. Fair enough, George.   There&amp;#039;s only one more artist tonight, and it&amp;#039;s Preston Pohl, a 26-year-old from Texas. He used to be a guitarist in a Christian rock band until his mentor/good friend/lead vocalist died suddenly and the group disbanded. Now it&amp;#039;s time for him to make a go of it on his own, and he&amp;#039;s trying out MGMT&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Electric Feel&amp;#039;. He&amp;#039;s got a fantastic voice - very soulful and rocky - good enough to get Cee Lo, Blake and Adam all to turn around within 30 seconds. It&amp;#039;s a great performance.  Cee Lo admits it&amp;#039;s one of his favourite songs of all times, but Adam loves that he turned it into a Marvin Gaye song, nearly, vocally speaking. He likes rock, hip hop, R&amp;amp;B and more. Adam is willing to do whatever to get him on his team. Cee Lo and Blake both try to relate to him in whatever way possible, but it&amp;#039;s up to Preston who he works with. He eventually - after much deliberation - decides to go with Adam.  And that&amp;#039;s it for this batch of auditions!  The Voice airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 8/7c on NBC. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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