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Listen Now: PEOPLE's Exclusive Spotify Playlist
Originally posted 04/11/2012 06:00AM
It's the ultimate feel-good playlist!
PEOPLE celebrates real beauty with our exclusive Spotify playlist of songs about what really matters. Don't miss songs from Christina Aguilera, Pink and other stars as we count down to the reveal of our Real Beauty at Every Age contest winners on April 25.
Just click on the "Beauty and the Beats" playlist below to hear the hits from Spotify.
Happy listening!
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The Voice: Talented Singers Go Home as Friends and Rivals Battle
Originally posted 03/13/2012 09:45AM
The battle lines continued to be drawn on The Voice Monday, as judges Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton, Cee Lo Green and Adam Levine pitted some of their best contestants against one another – at the same time eliminating talented singers.
From Team Christina, Geoff McBride and hotel-desk clerk Sera Hill faced off in the ring with Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools." Aguilera told Geoff, "Your power just blew me away." To Sera, she said, "I have a lot of respect for you as a vocalist." In the end, it was Sera who was selected to move on to the live shows.
Styles clashed a bit when Team Blake's outspoken Charlotte Sometimes and subdued Lex Land next battled, singing "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the People. Christina liked Lex's "sexy voice" and her "breathy, airy tones." But Blake heard a pitchy note in her performance and couldn't take his eyes off Charlotte, which, he says, is "what makes a star."
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The Voice: The Battle Rounds Begin
Originally posted 03/05/2012 02:00PM
With the blind auditions complete and their teams chosen, The Voice coaches are now forced to pit their contestants against each other.
The battle rounds begin on the NBC singing competition Monday as Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton each choose two contestants from their teams to face off in head-to-head "duet battles." Only one singer will remain in the competition.
Weeks of battle rounds will reduce the remaining 48 contestants to just 24. Here are a handful of the contestants performing on Monday:
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Angie Johnson, 31, was asked to audition for The Voice after host Carson Daly found a YouTube video of Johnson performing for the troops abroad.
Coaches Spar over Best Contestants on The Voice
Originally posted 02/07/2012 09:30AM
The judges were cutthroat on Monday's episode of The Voice.
On night two of the show's second season, Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton, Cee Lo Green and Adam Levine fought hard for the best performers of the night, including a country duo called The Line. Shelton turned his chair around right away, even before knowing the male singer, Leland, had a female partner, Hailey.
By the end of their version of "American Girl" (watch a clip above) all the judges were hoping to add The Line to the teams they started picking on Sunday's premiere.
"I want to be part of that energy, very badly," Adam said. "I felt the fun that you were having up there," Christina said, adding she was "really intrigued" by the duo. "I was first," Blake argued. The duo went with Christina, who burst into a devilish laugh, mocking her costars.
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Tony Lucca, a Former Mouseketeer, Auditions for The Voice
Originally posted 02/06/2012 12:45PM
Christina Aguilera said it best during The Voice's season 2 premiere Sunday night: "The competition is on!"
Premiering right after Super Bowl XLVI, the singing competition brought out more incredible performers – including R&B crooner Jessie Campbell and former Mouseketeer Tony Lucca – and sparks between mentors Aguilera, Blake Shelton, Adam Levine and Cee Lo Green as they battled for coaching slots to round out their teams of 12.
RaeLynn, 17, of Baytown, Tex., showed off a sweet, country sound while singing the Pistol Annies' "Hell On Heels." "I hope Blake turns around," she said. "I love him and his wife."
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The Voice Coaches to Perform Prince Medley
Originally posted 01/31/2012 07:00PM
Although The Voice will premiere Sunday – right after the Super Bowl – it won't be until night two that the coaches Blake Shelton, Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green and Adam Levine will perform a rocking Prince medley.
The two-hour show will also feature more blind auditions as the coaches build their teams and prepare to go head-to-head in a full season of NBC's hit singing competition.
Just don't expect to see a slew of bad singers.
"We all told them we're not signing up for this show if it's about ridiculing someone or mocking talent," Aguilera told reporters this month.
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