Uganda’s Desire Tusiimire(R) and Madagascar’s Rinah Arifenitra (L) during their duet performance, ‘You are Beautiful’ by Christina Aguilera. Photo/Courtesy
Uganda’s Desire Tusiimire progressed to the knockout phase of The Voice Africa, and she will be competing with 31 other African contestants as they battle for the 100,000 US dollars grand prize, Airtel goodies, and a recording contract with Universal Studios.
Desire was able to advance to the knockout phase after beating Madagascar’s Rinah Arifenitra in their duet performance, ‘You are Beautiful’ by Christina Aguilera, and was saved by Coach Awilo during the 17th episode.
The last four weeks have had duet performances from teams that were guided and mentored by Coaches; Yemi Alade from Nigeria, Locko Samba from Cameroon, Lady Jaydee from Tanzania, and Awilo Longomba from Congo.
Each Coach created seven duets to battle for a spot in the knockout phase of the contest.
A total of 32 talents were selected to advance to the knockout stage, and they will be contending for a spot in the vocal contest as they near the live auditions phase. The talents; Desire Tusiimire from Uganda. Cilia Jules and Gloria Mongo from Congo. Gigi, Syntyche, Solene Ada, Dilam, and Olga from Gabon. Mercy, Elizabeth, Kerario, and Gloria from Kenya. Fabre, Ryo and Manantsoa from Madagascar. Taonga and Nathaniel from Malawi. Elvis, Clarkmccoll, Emmanuel, and John from Nigeria. Jasmin, Jason, Linda, Belinde, and Blaise from Rwanda. Latifah, Christian, and Frank from Tanzania. Camille from Seychelles and Kitary from Niger.
During the Knockout stage, talents will be paired against each other, selecting a song to perform individually while their direct competitors watch and wait.
Coaches will choose the winner, and the Artist who is not selected will still have the opportunity to be saved by any Coach to remain in the competition.
Since its debut in March this year, The Voice Africa has seen 100 talents across 14 African Countries; Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Madagascar, Chad, DRC, Malawi, Niger, Zambia, Seychelles, Rep of Congo, Gabon, and Nigeria, participate in the different stages of the vocal contents including; The blind auditions, the battles, now the knockout phase which will be aired during the upcoming episodes.
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