{"id":1969,"date":"2016-04-05T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/music\/caity-peters\/"},"modified":"2016-04-05T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:07:00","slug":"caity-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/music\/caity-peters","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Long Beach Native on NBC&#8217;s The Voice Wins Knockout Round, Advances to Live Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-47503\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/96555a1e-f499-4cad-a55a-4a3071334968.jpg\" alt=\"96555a1e-f499-4cad-a55a-4a3071334968\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos courtesy of Tyler Golden\/NBC.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE |<\/strong> Long Beach native Caity Peters bested fellow teammate and competitor Abby Celso last night on <em>The Voice<\/em> to stay on Team Pharrell and advance to the live playoff rounds. During The Knockouts, Part 3, which aired on Monday, April 4, Peters chose to sing Sam Smith&#8217;s &#8220;Leave Your Lover.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mHvuFiKG0TA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" seamless=\"\" style=\"border: 0; outline: 0;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Speaking at first to Celso, Christina Aguilera compared Peters&#8217; performance to Celso&#8217;s favorably.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[&#8230;]I was missing a few different textures, a few different volumes from you, and Caity, you gave those dynamics, you had a lot of them in your performance,&#8221; said Aguilera. &#8220;You had so much emotion, my favorite here for this one was Caity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pharrell appeared to be torn, regarding his decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Caity, I felt like where you didn&#8217;t move physically; you moved spiritually and you emoted a lot,&#8221; said Pharrell. &#8220;That makes this difficult for me because it&#8217;s like, do you go with Storm or do you go with Wonder Woman? It&#8217;s like two people who do two different things. It&#8217;s tough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Peters was shocked and excited to be given the chance to continue working with Pharrell, and of course, Long Beach is just as excited to watch one of its own reach for the stars. Next up will be the live playoffs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PREVIOUSLY:\u00a0Long Beach Native\u00a0Excels on NBC&#8217;s The Voice, Advances to Knockout Rounds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>03\/24\/2016 at 5:31PM | <\/strong>Long Beach native Caity Peters, 21, tried out for NBC\u2019s two-time Emmy Award-winning The Voice on a whim. The Long Beach City College student working to get her teaching credential never considered that her passion for singing would ever be more than a hobby, a passion pushed toward the back of her mind to make way for becoming a teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Peters&#8217; email, unbeknownst to her, was subscribed to NBC. She received an alert that The Voice\u2019s open call auditions were taking place in Los Angeles and decided to skip a previously-planned engagement with her family and friends to take a chance on a dream she\u2019s never dared to pursue. Arguably, she\u2019d been selling herself short, until this opportunity arose.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-47504\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ff9634c5-a04a-4ff6-9604-49398c7268a4.jpg\" alt=\"ff9634c5-a04a-4ff6-9604-49398c7268a4\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I knew] I would regret not auditioning,\u201d Peters told the <em>Long Beach Post<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019d be sad, like, \u2018What would have happened?\u2019 I\u2019d have a bunch of questions. And so what made me audition was that curiosity, just the thought of, \u2018Maybe this is possible.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only did Peters receive a call back, blowing her then-expectations out of the water, but when it was her turn to attempt to convince one of the four celebrity coaches to be her trusted coach during the blind auditions, the first of five stages of competition, something very unexpected happened. It took barely a minute of listening to her sing the song <em>Jealous<\/em>, by Labrinth, for Christina Aguilera, Pharrell Williams, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton to spin around in admiration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was so honored at just the fact that I was even able to audition I was okay with not getting a chair-turn,\u201d she said. \u201cI was really at peace with that[&#8230;], so when all four of them turned it was overwhelming. It was something that I had never even let enter my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IStrYkeJjro\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" seamless=\"\" style=\"border: 0; outline: 0;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The first time Peters sang in front of anyone, including her family, was during an eighth grade choir concert, but it wasn\u2019t until her junior year of high school that she discovered singing was an actual passion. It was a way for Peters to express herself and her emotions when simply speaking wouldn\u2019t cut it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s just the fact that sometimes you feel something and you can\u2019t put it to words,\u201d she said. \u201cWhether it\u2019s a happy emotion or a sad emotion or any type of thing that I feel, music is the way that I can communicate those feelings to other people. It\u2019s incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During her battle round, the second stage of competition on The Voice, where the coaches pit two of their own team members against each other to sing the same song in front of an audience, Peters told the <em>Post<\/em> that she struggled, although the amateur vocalist wowed Pharrell, who chose her to advance versus her competitor, Joe Vivona.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QNzv9G_A3bU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" seamless=\"\" style=\"border: 0; outline: 0;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cCaity, it was a little bit of a struggle just because of where your tone is and where the song is naturally, but you know what, there was a moment you really dug in,\u201d said Pharrell after the performance. \u201cIt was like a fire breathing dragon comin\u2019 out. I applaud you for that because I know it was tough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since she received the callback to appear on The Voice, enticed all four celebrity coaches with her one-of-a-kind vocal style and most recently, won the second stage of the competition to advance to the knockout rounds to air in coming weeks, it\u2019s safe to say her life plans have pivoted, as in, she&#8217;s taking this semester off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy entire life it\u2019s been like, \u2018Okay, I\u2019m going to go to high school, go to college and then become a teacher,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u201cI love teaching and am still going to school to get my teaching credential and that\u2019s still a great passion of mine, but I never knew that music could be a serious possibility in my life and now that it\u2019s playing out like this it changes my dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information about The Voice, visit the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/the-voice\">here<\/a>. 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