{"id":7953,"date":"2012-03-31T19:56:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T18:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=7953"},"modified":"2012-03-31T19:56:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T18:56:32","slug":"the-voice-uk-2012-heshima-thompson-joins-rb-star-will-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/7953\/the-voice-uk-2012-heshima-thompson-joins-rb-star-will-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"The Voice UK 2012: Heshima Thompson joins R&#038;B star will.i.am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Heshima Thompson\" src=\"\/images\/uk\/thevoice\/2012\/heshimathompson.jpg\" alt=\"Heshima Thompson the voice\" width=\"247\" height=\"206\" \/>Heshima Thompson  joined Team Will.i.am on  The Voice UK, after a brilliant audition impressing all four judges.<\/p>\n<p>Heshima, who has previously appeared as a backing singer to Amy Winehouse, had made it to the bootcamp stages of The X Factor in 2009 and 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Trying his luck on The Voice UK this year, the singer performed a unique take on Taio Cruz track Dynamite that saw all four judges turn around.<\/p>\n<p>Danny told him after being the first to turn around: \u201cThat one hell of a performance, I would kill to have you on my tem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Will.i.am added: \u201cYou\u2019re amazing,\u201d while Jessie J simply shouted: \u201cPICK ME!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sir Tom Jones said: \u201cYou have it, you have the whole thing. If you\u2019re looking for longevity, you gotta be with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was then down to Heshima to decide which of the four to choose.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cUmmm this is such an important decision.. but I\u2019m going to go for\u2026 Will!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>see Heshima performance in the video below:<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7469702309\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"570\" height=\"330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yl0yNucAN6g?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* blogsmalllink 468x15, created 6\/7\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"6221751502\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 15;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heshima Thompson joined Team Will.i.am on The Voice UK, after a brilliant audition impressing all four judges. Heshima, who has previously appeared as \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/7953\/the-voice-uk-2012-heshima-thompson-joins-rb-star-will-i-am\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thevoice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7956,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions\/7956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}