The Voice is just about ready to name its next winner but not without a final plea for votes. With Blake Shelton and Cee Lo Green sitting out of the finale for the first time ever the competition has narrowed down to Christina Aguilera's Jacquie Lee and Will Champlin and Tessanne Chin both under Adam Levine's wing.
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Chin added plenty of new riffs to Pink's Try the song she sang for her original audition first standing in back of the audience and later jamming out comfortably alongside the guitarist onstage. Though we wished for more of the tender grit the song calls for her coach praised her voice and overall personality while Green openly called her the fan favorite and endorsed her with You deserve it all darling.
The Jamaican rocker then took the stage with Levine for The Beatles' Let It Be a song that showcased her more subtle vocal abilities and then took a reggae detour midsong. For her final performance Levine had her tackle Whitney Houston's I Have Nothing as a tribute and after only rehearsing the song once. As she sailed through the ambitious vocal demands her coach said in his heart that he knows Chin is the winner.
Champlin revived Gavin DeGraw's Not Over You with more vocal and physical comfort onstage than he's had all season but seemed a bit disconnected from the audience he still has a habit of closing his eyes too often. Levine commended his work ethic while Aguilera mentioned his tendency to get inside his own head too much throughout the season. We're not sure if she meant to mention it as a good or bad thing but we couldn't help but agree.
After the son of the Chicago bandmember paired with Levine for Elton John's Tiny Dancer he took a relatively subtle approach to Bryan Adams' (Everything I Do) I Do It for You and ended the song on his knees in front of his family in the audience. Shelton speaking for the first time in the two hour episode appreciated the angle That might have been a good play because it was solid all the way through and you didn't have to glitter it up. Levine also said Champlin is a winner for having made it this far. We wished he would've accompanied himself on either the piano or the guitar for this final performance because he's also such a strong instrumentalist.
Lee went back to Amy Winehouse's Back to Black her blind audition pick. While she has shown week after week that she can hit the big notes as she did when she first debuted with the song she over sang this rendition with a few too many high notes that overshadowed her strong lower register. Yet Aguilera took the post performance moment to praise her supportive family and thanked her for making her job such a joy.
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The 16 year old powerhouse then joined Aguilera for her coach's Hunger Games Catching Fire song We Remain not without a couple harmonizing problems on Aguilera's end. Lee later closed the episode with And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going from the musical Dreamgirls which was full of big vocal moments. Shelton had the last word of the night saying This is one of the best coach artist pairings that I've ever seen after five seasons of doing this.
The top three also united for The Jackson 5's I'll Be There before performing their final ballads.
The Voice's two hour finale airs Tuesday night at 9 p.m. on NBC featuring performances by Lady Gaga Celine Dion Ne Yo and OneRepublic.
What did you think of tonight's performances Who do you think will win The Voice and who do you think should win Sound off in the comments below.
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