But larger-than-life, bigger-than-Jesus, all-round and just very round entertainer Cee Lo Green is enhanced by it.Īnd now, it seems, he's coming our way. Both Aguilera and Levine have suffered from declining album sales recently, and there's a whiff of PR desperation about their participation. Some of his fellow judges might seem diminished by appearing on a reality TV show. However The Voice, and the spotlight it brings him, is right up his freeway. And give people my speciality of old-fashioned showmanship." Indeed, a few days after our encounter, Green will pull out of his remaining commitments on the Rihanna tour, saying he had too much on his plate right now. Because I don't get the opportunity to be as fabulous as I would like, and pull out all of the stops. And although I'm enjoying the Rihanna tour, I must say – maybe not for the audience, cos they are a new audience, so I'm out to acquire them as well – but it's a little underwhelming for me. "I've had a few stellar television performances recently. Green has recently been supporting Rihanna on her North American tour.
And for this assiduous ladies' man – the title of his current album The Lady Killer is not meant ironically – there are benefits. The Voice has made him a celebrity in the US – a particularly gratifying development for the singer, as he says the American wing of his record label was "indifferent" to his career in fact, it was the British who signed and developed him as a solo artist. Resplendent on screen in a crisp-white Adidas tracksuit, glinting diamond necklaces, chunkily bejewelled Artica watch and sunglasses permanently strapped to his bowling-ball dome, he radiates groovily cartoon-like charisma. And next to the puffy grandstanding, simpering weepiness and faux argy-bargy practised by the X Factor judges, the upstart show's pro-muso mentors are a fairly credible and very watchable alternative. Team Blake includes petite 16-year-old Xenia, who seems utterly petrified at Shelton's suggestion that she's "representing an entire generation" – a heavy burden even if you weren't having to do this via a cover of a song by middle-of-the-road Irish soul(ish) band The Script.Ĭompared with the overly polished commercial juggernaut that is American Idol, The Voice is refreshingly wonky. One of "Team Christina" is Beverly McClellan who, judging by her stagewear, appears to be a shaven-headed Romulan pirate.
Thus he finds himself coaching a chunky, gay Asian-American named Nakia ("My brother from another mother," as Green calls him), and a small, fiery lesbian Latina, Vicci Martinez.
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