{"id":211279,"date":"2019-04-25T01:51:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T05:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=211279"},"modified":"2019-04-25T04:07:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T08:07:16","slug":"filipino-contestant-of-the-voice-usa-makes-top-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/25\/filipino-contestant-of-the-voice-usa-makes-top-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino contestant of \u2018The Voice\u2019 USA makes top 24"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“TOP 24!! Wtheck guys!! Thank you so much to everyone who supported me so far in this incredible journey. Words can\u2019t even express how grateful I am.” (Photo<\/a>: @jejvinson<\/a>\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Representing Filipino talent on an American stage, Davae\u00f1o Jej Vinson, has officially advanced to the Top 24 of \u201cThe Voice US\u201d after besting out Team Adam Levine\u2019s contestant LB with his rendition of Bruno Mars\u2019 \u201cVersace on the Floor\u201d during the Cross Battle Round.<\/span><\/p>\n

The episode, which was revealed last Tuesday, April 23, announced that Jej has advanced to the show\u2019s next round after receiving a qualifying amount of public votes. To express his delight, the singer posts a photo hugging his coach, former American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson, captioned, \u201cTop 24! Thank you so much to everyone who supported me so far in this incredible journey. Words can\u2019t even express how grateful I am,\u201d adding a note to his mentor, saying, \u201cKelly Clarkson, you\u2019re incredible. Thank you for believing in me. I\u2019m excited to learn more from you. Excited for next week! Again, thank you for all the support. Love you all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jej immediately attracted attention on the show\u2019s 16th season after singing Drake\u2019s track \u201cPassionfruit\u201d during the Blind Auditions and receiving a four-chair turn. Prior to the Cross Battle Round, Jej was chosen by Kelly over Beth Griffith-Manley when the two artists sang the same song, \u201cJealous\u201d by Labrinth.<\/span><\/p>\n

The t22-year-old moved to South Dakota from the Philippines at the age of 15. When he was 18, he left his family to pursue a singing career in Los Angeles, while balancing nursing school at the University of Southern California. Eventually, Jej gave up nursing by switching his major to music, where he eventually joined award-winning acapella group SoCal VoCals as their music director. <\/span><\/p>\n

One of the highlights of Jej\u2019s career has been singing in front of former President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama.<\/span><\/p>\n

The young star cites Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder, Beyonce, Brian McKnight, Daryl Ong, Morissette Amon, and Regine Velasquez as some of his musical inspirations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Representing Filipino talent on an American stage, Davae\u00f1o Jej Vinson, has officially advanced to the Top 24 of \u201cThe Voice …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":211280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,54365,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-instagram","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-gianna-llanes","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211337,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211279\/revisions\/211337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}