Mark Shiiba’s blind audition on NBC’s “The Voice” did not get a coach chair spin but he still impressed, writes Cherise Lynch for NBC Philadelphia.
On “The Voice,” if a coach is impressed by an artist’s voice, they press a button to select them for their team, causing the coach’s chair to swivel to face the artist.
The Swarthmore native performed his own version of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” performing vocals, while playing guitar and a harmonica.
Despite the lack of a chair swivel, Shiiba impressed coach and Grammy-award winning singer Michael Buble so much that he exercised a new show option to add him to his team even after the audition ended.
“I knew that I had made a mistake before the chair ever turned around because I think this guy is a star,” Bublé said.
“You are what we label a triple threat, a harmonica, guitar, and vocalist?” coach and hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg said to Shiiba. “Bublé is going to work you all the way out.”
In a bit of a local competition, Shiiba on Team Buble will now go against Chester County’s Gabrielle Zabosky, who joined team Gwen Stefani after impressing the judges last week.
Read more about Mark Shiiba’s audition on “The Voice” at NBC 10 Philadelphia.
