{"id":9666,"date":"2024-12-17T17:05:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T17:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/?p=9666"},"modified":"2024-12-19T15:16:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T15:16:42","slug":"the-voice-singers-put-a-magical-spin-on-wickeds-song-defying-gravity-but-only-one-called-a-potential-broadway-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/?p=9666","title":{"rendered":"The Voice singers put a magical spin on Wicked&#8217;s song &#8220;Defying Gravity&#8221; but only one called a potential Broadway star"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">The Top 8 finalists on Season 26 of The Voice channeled their inner Elphaba in Tuesday night\u2019s finale with a magical cover of \u201cDefying Gravity\u201d from Wicked Part One (now playing in theaters everywhere).<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"SIuerCeN\"><\/div>\n<p>Jeremy Beloate (Team Snoop), Danny Joseph (Team Reba), Shye (Team Bubl\u00e9), Christina Eagle (Team Snoop), Sofronio Vasquez (Team Bubl\u00e9), Sydney Sterlace (Team Gwen), Adam Bohanan (Team Reba), and Jan Dan (Team Gwen) performed the iconic song with a little help from choreographed dancers and a shifting digital backdrop of the Emerald City.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch their performance below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Top 8 Finalists Perform Wicked's &quot;Defying Gravity&quot; | The Voice Finale | NBC\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a-2bOC4M1ps?feature=oembed\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"790\" data-origheight=\"444\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re holding space\u2026 for our Top 8\u2019s group performance of \u2018Defying Gravity\u2019 kicking off tonight\u2019s finale!\u201d wrote the official Voice instagram account, referring to the viral internet meme unintentionally created by journalist Tracey E. Gilchrist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefying Gravity\u201d closes out the Wicked movie, with a disenchanted Elphaba Thropp (Cynthia Erivo) defying both the Wizard (Jeff Goldblum) and the laws of physics via a levitating broomstick. This brazen act of rebellion comes at a cost, however. As our green-skinned heroine flies away from the Emerald City, accompanied by an army of winged monkeys, she seals her ill-begotten reputation as Oz\u2019s most feared enemy: The Wicked Witch of the West.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/sites\/nbcblog\/files\/media_mpx\/thumbnails\/mpxstatic-nbcmpx.nbcuni.com\/image\/109\/995\/Top8Performance_v2.jpg\" alt=\"The Voice Season 26 Finale Night 2: Top 8 Contestants Sing Defying Gravity | NBC Insider\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Viewers Reactions<\/h3>\n<p><em>\u201cBy this video we can tell Broadway artists are really well talented!!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis was beyond them. Except for Shye and Sofronio. \u2764\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShye really shines in this performance especially.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis was so amazing, giving everyone a moment to shine. Loved Shye nailing the big note. Loved this! \u2013 So You Wanna Be A Singer\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShye really stood out to me in this!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe individual vocal performances of 8 finalists all rendered SUPERB, but the voices of Shye and Sofronio really stood out in this group performance the most! \ud83e\udec2\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShye needs to be picked by a label! That voice needs to he heard. She\u2019s unique and sincere. \u2764\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSofronio and Shye did incredible!\u2764\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShye was amazing in this and in the competition in general\u2026 im def going to be listening to her music. Sofronio my filo brother congrats on winning.. u rock\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShye ATEEE\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Top 8 finalists on Season 26 of The Voice channeled their inner Elphaba in Tuesday night\u2019s finale with a magical cover of \u201cDefying Gravity\u201d from Wicked Part One (now playing in theaters everywhere). Jeremy Beloate (Team Snoop), Danny Joseph (Team Reba), Shye (Team Bubl\u00e9), Christina Eagle (Team Snoop), Sofronio Vasquez (Team Bubl\u00e9), Sydney Sterlace [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/?p=9666\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[584],"tags":[],"reaction":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-voice","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666","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=9666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10114,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions\/10114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9666"},{"taxonomy":"reaction","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Freaction&post=9666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}