On Friday, October 26, viewers of Channel One saw the third release of the vocal show “The Voice”. The team of mentors, which included Konstantin Meladze, Sergey Shnurov, Ani Lorak and Basta (Vasily Vakulenko) continued to recruit teams of performers. At this in the "blind auditions" was attended by 12 people.
The release began with a failure: the jury never turned to the first performer, professional singer Yevgenia Otradnaya. She performed with the song “The January Blizzard Ring”, familiar to the audience in the film “Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Profession”.
“It seems to me that we didn’t turn because there was little vocal information,” Konstantin Meladze explained what had happened.
But on the day of the “blind auditions”, another participant, 27-year-old Shaen Oganesyan from St. Petersburg, was lucky. As soon as Oganesyan began performing the song I've got a woman by the American singer Ray Charles, Bast pressed the red button. The next were Sergey Shnurov and Ani Lorak.
As the show’s host, Dmitry Nagiyev, later noted, at that moment began “rubilovo as part of the competent jury”: Shnurov asked the contestant to join his team, starting from territorial considerations (“No need to spend money on tickets”), to which Basta promised Oganesyana to move to St. Petersburg. The leader of "Leningrad" demanded a receipt from the rapper.
Other judges behaved more restrained.
"You are a little crazy, it seems to me," said Lorac to colleagues from the next chair.
The speaker had long doubted which of his mentors he should go to, but in the end, Shnurov’s arguments seemed more convincing to him.
The next participant, an employee of an electronics store from Chelyabinsk, Vasily Pupkin, failed to win over the jury. But he won the audience by singing the song Got My Mind Set on You and the similarity with John Lennon.
Pupkin, it seems, was not very saddened by the fact that he did not get into the next round: with a shining face, he avoided the mentors who signed on his shirt.
“This light schizophrenic even paints you,” said Nagiyev, meeting Pupkin after the performance.
- It is not easy! - retorted the one.
The judges didn’t turn to Anastasia Martynova, a 24-year-old Petersburg woman (she prepared Alla Pugacheva's song “You didn’t become fate” for the contest). However, the jury members quickly regretted their decision.
“I think we all made a mistake,” said Konstantin Meladze and stressed that mentors need to learn how to make allowances for the excitement of participants.
The situation was decided to be corrected by Basta: he suggested that Martynova record a video and put it in the judges ’accounts on Instagram. Shnurov immediately promised that he would help the contestant.
40-year-old Anna Pingina prepared for the show a song based on the poems of Marina Tsvetaeva "Grandma told me cruel ...". The singer wrote the music to her herself.
Shnurov, Meladze and Basta turned to her only at the very end, what made Pingin, the audience and even Dmitry Nagiyev jittery.
“At some point it seemed that nothing was happening to these devils,” the presenter shared his impressions.
The jury took turns comparing the performance of the contestants with a trip to the fantasy world and persuaded her to join their teams. I chose Pingina Bastu - again, guided by the territorial principle.
“I was born in the south ... and I know very well the city in which you grew up and lived,” she said.
The sixth participant came to the Russian “Voice” from Italy. Opera singer Valerio Zgardzhi took Meladze to his team. And to the seventh - young Natalia Larionova from Tomsk - nobody turned around. Even Ani Lorak, whose song she chose to perform (and later sang with her in a duet).
For the 19-year-old Rushana Valieva from Bashkortostan, these “blind auditions” were second: she had already appeared before the jury members of the show “Voice. Children ”, however, failed to pass to the next stage. But now, four years after the first unsuccessful attempt, all the teachers turned to Valiyeva.
“Sooner or later, if you deserve it, all the chairs will turn to you,” stated Nagiyev.
The girl decided to go under the auspices of Sergei Shnurov, after, of course, after listening to compliments from other mentors.
“What the contestants lack is femininity. We miss her. And here she is, ”rejoiced Meladze.
Olga Shitova from the Tyumen region, strikingly similar to Ingeborg Dapkunayte, got into the team of the only Ani Lorak turned to her. In the same way, Lorak took away the next speaker, 55-year-old Valery Anokhin.
Kostantin Biteyev decided to play the composition of the British singer Adele in front of the judges When We Were Young. The red button in the first seconds pressed Basta. But he was the only one.
“It seems to me that when Vasya turned around, you immediately calmed down, went limp, and this was the end of the concert,” explained Meladze.
The program was completed by a 23-year-old Alexandra Kruglova from Moscow with the song Beyonce If I Were A Boy. Only Lorac turned to her.
“At the castings they sing Bjonce songs. Often this is similar to suicide ... And this is the rare case when it was not disgusting (to listen. - RT ) ... If it were not for Ani, I would press the exact button, ”again took the floor Konstantin Meladze.
The participant, touched by the remarks of the judges, knelt, and then asked Sergey Shnurov for his jacket.
"In general, the girl does not miss," - commented on what he saw Lorac.
On that positive note, the third release of the seventh show, The Voice, came to an end.
Of the twelve speakers in the next round were eight. At this time, Ani Lorak took the most part of the participants: her team became more than three people. Two performers each ended up with Shnurov and Basta. Konstantin Meladze was enriched by one contestant.
Shnurov, Baste, Meladze and Lorak will recruit teams of 12 performers. At the moment, the largest team is listed for Vakulenko - there are seven contestants.