{"id":11367,"date":"2024-12-29T16:54:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T16:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/?p=11367"},"modified":"2024-12-29T16:54:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T16:54:34","slug":"the-71-year-old-singer-ignites-the-the-voice-stage-with-stand-by-me-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/?p=11367","title":{"rendered":"The 71-year-old singer ignites the \u2018The Voice\u2019 stage with \u2018Stand By Me.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"b-r b-r--before_content\"><\/div>\n<p>The Voice\u2019s senior competitor Jimi Bellmartin stole the show during the finals with a stirring performance of the R&amp;B classic \u201cStand By Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bellmartin could perform live at Amsterdam\u2019s Ziggo Dome and release an EP after winning the season. Bellmartin had been the clear favorite since the start of that year.<\/p>\n<p>When he began his audition with the opening notes of James Brown\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s a Man\u2019s World,\u201d all of the coaches turned around at once.<\/p>\n<p>This two-minute, thirty-three-second clip features Jimi Bellmartin performing Ben E. King\u2019s \u201cStand By Me\u201d on The Voice Senior\u2019s The Final. The song is captivating, and he does a fantastic job performing it, particularly the chorus \u201cstand by me.\u201d It\u2019s really poignant.<\/p>\n<div class=\"b-r b-r--middle_content\"><\/div>\n<p>When he got to Holland, he was a year old. As a child, he found himself in Vught. Bellmartin has been singing all his life. Not just at parties, but also in the supporting voices of well-known performers like The Trammps, Lou Rawls, Eric Burdon, and Percy Sledge.<\/p>\n<p>He has spent years touring the globe, showing millions of people his talent. The soul singer\u2019s performance of \u201cLoving Someone\u201d won the RTL talent contest finale, drawing in over two million viewers. He was trained by Gordon and Gerard Joling.<\/p>\n<p>Bellmartin\u2019s debut single, \u201cThis is My Love Song,\u201d was published in 1970. In 2007, Bellmartin made her debut as the lead vocalist for the funk group The Soul Snatchers. Bellmartin\u2019s distinctive soul tone makes his \u201cStand By Me\u201d performance on The Voice one of the most unforgettable.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WINNER The Voice SENIOR 2018 - Jimi Bellmartin: To Love Somebody\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ufWfLlB3Yj8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Voice\u2019s senior competitor Jimi Bellmartin stole the show during the finals with a stirring performance of the R&amp;B classic \u201cStand By Me.\u201d Bellmartin could perform live at Amsterdam\u2019s Ziggo &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11372,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11367\/revisions\/11372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}