Idols SA contestant Nolo Seodisha is out, top 3 go to New York

4 Nov 2019 - 11:15

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Idols SA contestant Nolo Seodisha failed to make it in the Top 3 stage of the music competition held at the South African State Theatre (SAST) in Pretoria at the weekend.

Sneziey Msomi, Luyolo Yiba and Micayla Oelofse made it in the Top 3 stage of the Idols SA music competition.

The remaining contenders, Micayla Oelofse, Luyolo Yiba and Sneziey Msomi will celebrate their survival by jetting off to New York to prepare for next week’s performances. The Top 3 contenstants will battle it out to secure their places in the finals at Carnival City on 17 November.

“With just three weeks to go to the finale, the Idols contestants hit the ground running tonight with the opportunity to tackle a mainstay for any singer worth their salt – the duet,” Idols SA said. “Micayla Oelofse and Luyolo Yiba oozed chemistry as they sang Ariana Grande and Nathan Sykes’s ‘Almost is Never Enough’, while Sneziey Msomi and Nolo Seodisha gave us the Dream Girls experience with Beyoncé and Jamie Foxx’s ‘When I First Saw You’.

“With the duets done and dusted, the show got down to the business of elimination. It was the end of the road for Seodisha, who it has to be said fought the good fight. The battle for the Idols SA title is now left to Yiba, Msomi and Oelofse, who tonight gave us some of their fiercest performances yet as they vied for a spot in the finale.”

The event, which ran under the theme How It Should Be Done, saw contestants performing a selection of songs “chosen by the strongest of the Wooden Mic contenders as their audition pieces,” Idols SA said.

Yiba was first on the stage, performing ‘Photograph’ by Ed Sheeran prompting judge Randall Abrahams to say he sang the song better than Sheeran, while Somizi Mhlongo said his performance was clean, smooth and easy to the ear. Unathi Nkayi said the fact that he felt no need to play up to the performance showed he was a true performer. “You just stood there and commanded the stage,” Nkayi said.

Yiba’s rendition of Mondi Ngcobo’s ‘Inkanyezi’ impressed the judges, with Mhlongo saying he was inspired by his story of transformation from the invisible underdog to a true contender. He and Abrahams encouraged Yiba to keep to his singing style.

Idols SA said: “Singing ‘Save Me’ by Thembisile, Msomi once again had the judges raving about her performance. She secured both a standing ovation and a ‘whoo shem’ from Mhlongo, who said her performance was impeccable, while Nkayi was reduced to tears, saying that she had never had to ask her to mean what she sang. Abrahams said it was her song choices that had made the difference throughout the competition, giving her kudos for always knowing which songs to select.”

The dates for the next rounds are as follows: