The Voice featured two standout blind auditioners who captured all four coaches' attention during Tuesday night's sixth-season broadcast on NBC.

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In the initial "blind auditions" phase of the competition, Delvin Choice from Greenville, SC, and Cary Laine from Pinedale, WY, impressed The Voice coaches Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Shakira, and Usher to the point where all four chairs turned around and they fought hard for the artists to be on their individual teams.  

Adam finished the night on top, as both Delvin and Cary opted to be on his team.

Delvin had auditioned for The Voice back in Season 5 but didn't make the cut, and this time around, all four coaches wanted him. He sang Ne-Yo's "Closer" last season but returned with Donny Hathaway's "A Song for You."

Blake was "blown away" with Delvin's vocal control, and Shakira "solemnly swore" to take him "to the top of the competition" because he was the artist she had been waiting for. Usher joked that Shakira was lying and Delvin shouldn't listen to her, but Shakira reminded everyone her "hips don't lie" -- which is a play off of her famous hit song -- so the rest of her doesn't lie either.

"I didn't even recognize your voice this time because that's how much better it was," Adam said, comparing his performance to his first audition. "There is no doubt in my mind that you could win this whole thing."

"I'll hold my hand up and swear I will tell you the whole truth even if it's horrible. I'm going to be honest with you because I want you to be great," Usher said.

Adam reminded Delvin he had been honest with him in Season 5 by giving him the advice to sing a completely different song. Adam believed "Closer" was a poor choice for him at the time, and Delvin apparently respected his opinion because he decided to be a member of Adam's team.

Cary sang "Better Dig Two" by The Band Perry and said afterwards that she's a country singer at her core. It seemed obvious to all the coaches she'd pick Blake, but they were wrong.

Usher, Shakira and Adam all offered Cary the opportunity to sit in their big red chairs one at a time so she felt comfortable and significant. Usher said sitting in Adam's chair was like the country singer choosing the "baby's bed" in the story of the three bears. Once Cary sat in his own chair, Usher jokingly tried to hypnotize her with his eyes and lips.

"Don't do that! Just don't like at him!" Shakira yelled.

"Listen, I don't have a female country singer on my team, so you don't have any competition on my team," Adam said.

"There's a reason he doesn't have a female country singer on his team," Blake pointed out. "You take country music seriously right? You want Nashville to take you seriously from this point forward, don't you? [My winning artist] Cassadee Pope has already had her first No. 1 album in country music."

"Blake is not the right one for you," Adam noted with a big smile. "Don't you want to break the mold a little bit? Do what you do but do it through me so I can hopefully offer you more than he can being stuck in his own ways."

"This is no time to experience with your life. This is not the time; This is not the place," Blake argued.

Shakira then got the last word by suggesting Cary would benefit from working closely with another female, but still, Cary wanted to be on Adam's team.

In addition to Delvin and Cary, three other acts were shown advancing from the "blind auditions" phase during last night's broadcast. The acts were "Team Shakira's" Deja Hall from San Antonio, TX; "Team Usher's" Madilyn Paige from Provo, UT; and "Team Blake's" Noah Lis from Palmer, MA.

Deja got three chairs to turn around for her during her audition.


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