(dramatic music)
Ken jeong: Welcome back to america's
Favorite guessing game: I can see your voice!
Using your detective skills,
Can you spot who are good singers
(woman warbling) shawn: Whoa!
Ken: And who are bad singers...
Cheryl: Eh!
Ken: ..Without ever hearing them sing a note?
I've been trying to see the voice! I try to see it!
Ken: Tonight, helping our contestant are:
Cheryl hines! Cheryl: Oh my god!
Ken: Adrienne bailon-houghton!
I will not be fooled! Ken: Ron funches!
I would drop him like a bad habit!
(contestant laughing) ken: And tonight's
Musical superstar, shawn stockman!
You guys are tricksters. Ken: It all comes down
To the life-changing $100,000 decision.
Ashanti, do you want to risk it all?
Adrienne: Oooh boy!
And I'm locking it in! Cheryl: I'm so excited!
(theme tune)
(audience cheers and applauds)
Welcome to another wild and wonderful episode
Of america's favorite guessing game, I can see your...
(everyone joins in) voice!
Shawn! A boy ii man is here!
(audience cheering)
So good to see you, sir. Shawn: Good to see you, man.
I'm looking forward to hearing the good or... The not-so-good.
That was the working title: Ken jeong: Good or not-so-good.
(all laughing)
Now let's meet tonight's contestant.
It's ashanti from atlanta, georgia! Come on!
(audience cheers and applauds)
Ken: Welcome, ashanti. Tell us who you are, what you do.
(laughing) I am a substitute teacher,
Currently with the department of exceptional students.
These kids have lower-than-average test grades
Or behavioral issues. So, I work with them.
Teachers - the best resource. Adrienne & cheryl: Yes.
Thank you for all you do. Ashanti: I like it! I love it.
I also am a proud mother of a three-year-old little girl
Named river blossom. Ken: River blossom?!
Yes!
Ken: What are you playing for tonight?
Ashanti: Phew! My great- grandmother is 103 years old.
What?! Panelists: Wow!
So I want to put a in-law suite in the back of my mom's house.
We gotta get her some money.
Ken: Let's get the investigation going and reveal
Tonight's secret voices.
Ken: Number 1. At age eight, he booked a part
In a major movie playing the younger version
Of one of the most iconic characters in cinema history.
Now he's swapped the silver screen for the microphone
And recently sang with the band, my morning jacket.
It is child star. Adrienne: Ooh.
Ken: Number 2. She can pop, walk and drop
A showstopping performance, and even shared the stage
With mariah carey at her christmas show in new york city.
Her voice will have your head spinning.
It's hip hop dancer. Cheryl: That's fantastic.
Ken: Number 3. He teaches at miami dade
But once that bell rings, he heads straight
To the hard rock hotel & casino in hollywood, florida,
Where he is a frontman for the house band.
It's college professor! Adrienne: I would say not!
Ken: Number 4. This funny man's club routines have them
Rolling in the aisles but he's not just limited to punchlines!
No. He went viral when miguel reposted his cover of adorn,
Reaching more than 400,000 views on tiktok.
It's stand-up comedian!
I'm all for stand-up comedian. I know he's got no other skills!
Ken: Number 5. Though he fronted an indie band in high school,
These days he tends to nearly 300 colonies in south florida
And uses music to teach kids about bee conservation.
Maybe he's the next sting?! It's beekeeper.
Cheryl: I don't know.
Ken: Number 6.
This well-traveled wanderer may have itchy feet
But when she's home, she's a full-time singer in los angeles
And once sang backup for christina aguilera
At the american music awards in 2017. It's backpacker!
Shawn: She looks the part. (audience cheers and applauds)
Ken: So let's get a quick recap of the rules.
There are six secret voices up on that stage
But you'll never know how many are good singers
And how many are bad. In the first five rounds,
You will use clues, logic and intuition
To eliminate the bad singers. If they're a good singer,
Everything you hear will be true.
But if they're a bad singer, anything could be a lie.
(siren sounds) for each correct guess,
You will earn $15,000.
Your goal is to eliminate all the bad singers
So that the last one standing is a good singer
Because that secret voice will be dueting with shawn stockman
And if they're a good singer, you could win $100,000.
(audience cheers and applauds) ken: So, ashanti,
We're just going to get down to business
With our first lip sync showdown.
(audience cheers and applauds)
The secret voices will be performing two at a time,
Battling it out, and you get to choose which two voices you see
But at the end of each round you have to eliminate one of them.
Remember, to win $15,000, bad is good...
Everyone: Good is bad! Ashanti: Yikes!
I want to see the child star because I genuinely think
That he is a bad singer because the confidence isn't there.
Ashanti: And I want to see the college professor.
Ashanti: Opposite of child star, he's giving confidence,
And I do think that he is a good singer.
Ken: Get ready for child star.
Ken: And college professor.
Shawn: This is intense.
(mid-tempo happy intro)
♪ jeremiah was a bullfrog ♪
♪ he was a good friend of mine ♪
♪ I never understood a single word he said ♪
♪ but I helped him drink his wine ♪
♪ sing it now ♪ joy to the world
♪ all the boys and girls
♪ joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea ♪
♪ joy to you and me
(music ends) (audience cheers and applauds)
Nope! Cheryl: Hey, professor!
(melancholy piano intro)
♪ I always had that dream, like my daddy before me ♪
♪ so I started writing songs ♪ I started writing stories
♪ something about that glory just always seemed to bore me ♪
♪ 'cos only those I really love will ever really know me ♪
♪ once I was seven years old ♪ momma told me
♪ "go make yourself some friends or you'll be lonely ♪
♪ once I was seven years old (audience cheers and applauds)
Ken: Give it up for child star and college professor. Panel?
Shawn: The child star. He does this vibrato thing, right?
And normally when someone does like a vibrato, they kinda...
(sings vibrato) ♪ j-o-oy to the wo-o-rld
So it's kinda like a... A thing you do, like with your throat.
He didn't do that. So I think he's a bad singer.
(applause) cheryl: I agree.
I didn't see, you know, him taking a breath
Or him doing his breath work, as you like to say.
It's called breathing. Cheryl: Yeah, I get that.
Cheryl: I didn't I didn't see any breathing going on at all
So I think he's a bad singer.
I think we might have two good singers here.
(audience gasp in surprise) ron: Starting with child star,
I'd say right away that is the exact voice
That matches him, to me. I think child star is a good singer!
Ron: College professor, he got a little earring that was blingin'
And I was like, that's a singer who's like
"I'm bein' forced to be a college professor!"
Adrienne: The college professor story. It sounded very cool
To imagine, like, this alter ego of being this amazing singer.
Yeah, I have the same fantasy.
(all laughing)
Ken: Focus. Please.
Adrienne: I don't believe that that voice matched his look
So I am going to say that the college professor
Is a bad singer. (gasps from audience)
College professor... Ken: Okay. Here we go.
I learned something. Ken: Oh, dear.
Why would they match up a voice that you're not expecting?
Shawn: Right. Cheryl: (deep voice) I liked it.
(everyone laughing) ken: Aaand we're back!
I think he's a good singer.
Ken: Ashanti, it is time to make a decision.
(exhales nervously)
Ashanti: Okay, I really like
What cheryl said about the college professor.
That voice did not match to me as well so I'm going to
Stick with the college professor being a good singer,
And I think the child star is still a bad singer.
That is my final answer and I am (yells) locking it in!
(audience cheers and applauds) ken: Okay, very good.
Adrienne: We shall see!
College professor, you are still in the game. Child star...
(everyone joins in) let's see your voice!
Adrienne: Bro, I want him to be bad, to prove us wrong!
Ron: I wanna be wrong. I want her to win money.
(uptempo intro)
(out of tune) ♪ oh, don't you dare look back
♪ just keep your eyes on me ♪ I said you're holdin' tight
♪ she said "shut up and dance with me" ♪
♪ this woman is my destiny
♪ she said "ooh, shut up and dance with me" ♪
(music ends) (audience cheers and applauds)
Ken: Wow! Give it up for child star!
Ken: Who are you really? What's your name?
My name is michael conner humphreys
And I played young forrest in the film forrest gump.
(ashanti screams) oh wow!
Adrienne: Oh my god! He's wearing the same outfit!
Shawn: My god! That's awesome! Michael: Thank you.
Adrienne: I love you!
That's so cute. Ashanti: That is amazing.
Ken: Wow! Michael, what made you want to do this show?
Uh, well, I had a lot of fun playing the character as a kid,
And I like to do things outside of my comfort zone, so getting
Back into costume and being a rock star was perfect for me.
Ken: Michael, thank you! Michael: Thank you.
Give it up for michael!
(audience cheers and applauds)
And to make things even better, ashanti, you just made $15,000!
Don't go anywhere. After the break, ashanti will be
Choosing two more secret voices
As she attempts to take home that $100,000!
(audience cheers and applauds) ken: Give it up for michael!
I'm so excited!
(theme tune)
Welcome back to I can see your voice.
The only show where spotting terrible talent
Can make you really rich. (everyone laughing)
Ashanti, before the break,
You eliminated child star and made $15,000.
But you've still four remaining secret voices to choose from,
And it is time for our second lip sync showdown!
I want to see backpacker.
Ashanti: I need her to give me some type of inclination
That she's good or bad. I want to see backpacker
Share the stage with the stand-up comedian.
Ashanti: And my gut, my intuition, (laughs)
It's telling me that stand-up comedian is a good singer.
Ken: Let's check out stand-up comedian...
Ken: ..And backpacker.
I'm trying to look at how he holds the mic.
(upbeat, funky intro)
♪ isn't she lovely?
♪ isn't she wonderful?
♪ isn't she precious? ♪ less than one minute old
♪ I never thought ♪ through love, we'd be
♪ making one as lovely as she
♪ isn't she lovely? ♪ made from love
(music ends) (audience cheers and applauds)
Adrienne: He's a good singer. You see that? (riffs)
Shawn: Yeah, definitely.
(mid-tempo piano intro)
(vocalizing)
♪ not gonna write you a love song ♪
♪ 'cos you asked for it ♪ 'cos you need one
♪ you see I'm not gonna write you a love song ♪
♪ 'cos you tell me it's make-or-break in this ♪
♪ if you're on your way
♪ I'm not gonna write you to stay ♪
♪ if all you have is leaving ♪ I'mma need a better reason
♪ to write you a love song ♪ today
(audience cheers and applauds) shawn: She can sing too.
First of all, that was amazing. Both, I think, are good singers.
Adrienne: Uh-hum! Ken: Panel, what do you think?
Previously, I said that I'd never seen a stand-up comedian
That could sing well or had any other talent at all.
(everyone chuckles) ron: I was just
In my own emotions about myself and myself and my shortcomings!
But I feel like he's a good singer.
Shawn: There were nuances. The way his lips move -
That voice matched him perfectly. He can sing.
I get zero stage presence from him.
Cheryl: He looks like he's never seen a microphone before.
Not held one but not seen one! Cheryl: He hasn't even seen one,
Much less held one! (everyone laughing)
I think he's a bad singer.
I think both are good singers but if I had to choose,
I'd eliminate the stand-up comedian.
(audience gasping) I actually feel
Like he could have just practiced it well enough
Versus, I think, the effortlessness of the backpacker
Tells me she is absolutely a good singer.
(applause)
I think she can sing too!
If you had to eliminate one, just for purposes of the game?
I'd eliminate the backpacker because the comedian,
I'm convinced he can sing. (ashanti sighs in frustration)
Ron: I'm very confused. Like I say,
Any time I'm in a romantic relationship,
If I'm confused, it's time for me to get the hell out of here!
(audience laughs and applauds)
Ken: Okay, ashanti, it is time to make a decision.
(tense music)
This one is tough. I really need that money
And really want my grandma to have
That in-law suite. Adrienne: That's right.
I think they are both good singers.
Yeah. Ashanti: I'm going to go
With the one I feel most confident in
And I feel like the stand-up comedian is a good singer.
So I choose to eliminate the backpacker.
And I'm lockin' it in!
Ken: Now, backpacker, let's...
(everyone joins in) see your voice!
Cheryl: Oh boy!
(slow, soulful country-style intro)
Ashanti: My heart is beating out of my chest.
(riffing in tune) ♪ I've looked for love
(everyone sighing sadly) ♪ in all the same old places
Dang it!
♪ yeah adrienne: I knew it.
♪ found the bottom of the bottle's always dry ♪
(audience cheers and applauds)
(on-point riffing) ♪ you're as smooth
♪ as tennessee whiskey
Yes, girl!
♪ you're as sweet
♪ as strawberry wine
Whoa! Whoa!
(audience cheers and applauds) ♪ you're as warm
♪ as a glass of brandy adrienne: Yes! Sing!
♪ and, honey, I stay stoned ♪
♪ on your love
♪ all the time (music ends)
(audience cheers and applauds wildly)
Whoa-wo-wo! Whoa-wo!
Yeah! Adrienne: Incredible.
Ken: Backpacker, damn, that was just outstanding.
Incredible.
What's your name? Backpacker: Emma negrete.
You sang backup for christina aguilera?
Yes, I did. Cheryl: Wow!
Ken: Give it up for backpacker! Backpacker: Thank you.
Ashanti, you've eliminated one good singer and one bad singer,
Meaning you still have $15,000.
Adrienne: That's right! Ken: More of america's
Favorite guessing game, I can see your voice, after the break.
That was tough. Ashanti: It's very hard.
Yeah, it's so hard.
(audience cheers and applauds)
Welcome back to I can see your voice.
So, ashanti, you have a total of $15,000.
Ken: Now it's time for our third and final lip sync showdown.
Let's check out beekeeper...
..And hip hop dancer.
(mid-tempo rock rhythm)
♪ go on and close the curtains
♪ 'cos all we need is candlelight ♪
♪ you and me ♪ and a bottle of wine
♪ to hold you tonight ♪ oh yeah
♪ save tonight
♪ and fight the break of dawn ♪ come tomorrow
♪ tomorrow I'll be gone
(music ends)
(audience cheers and applauds) adrienne: Wow.
(whistling crunk beat intro)
♪ my goodies, my goodies ♪ my goodies, not my goodies
Hey!
♪ I bet you want the goodies
♪ bet you thought about it ♪ got you all hot and bothered
♪ mad 'cos I talk around it
♪ if you're lookin' for the goodies ♪
♪ keep on lookin' 'cos they stay in the jar ♪
♪ oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh ♪ oh-oh, yeah
(music ends) (audience cheers and applauds)
Panel, let's start with shawn.
Shawn: Hip hop dancer, I think, is definitely bad.
(laughter) shawn: We all know in the
Music business that there are a lot of performers in the world
But not a lot of great singers.
Hip hop dancer, I think you are a bad singer!
I do believe you have been on stage with other acts
But it has been as a dancer.
Cheryl: I don't know what you guys are seeing.
I felt like she could be on stage singing that song
And she would rock it. I think she's a good singer.
I think they both could be good singers.
Cheryl: Ooh. Ashanti: Wow!
Adrienne: Beekeeper, in this song,
Instead of ♪ save the night , he went ♪ save the ni-ight .
Right. Adrienne: And he was doing that.
I've been trying to see the voice! I try to see it!
He is a good singer.
Shawn: Beekeeper, that sounds like his voice,
Like the type of song he'd sing. I think he's a good singer.
Yeah, he was giving moves like total rock
But his voice wasn't giving rock.
I think he's a bad singer. (audience applauds)
Ken: Ashanti, it is time to make a decision.
Ashanti: The beekeeper, I don't believe him.
I think he's a bad singer.
The hip hop dancer, um...
I don't think she background- danced for mariah carey even.
Audience: Ooh!
I think the hip hop dancer is a bad singer.
Ashanti: And I am lockin' it in!
(audience cheers and applauds)
Alright. Ken: Hip hop dancer, let's...
(everyone joins in) see your voice!
This is intense.
(melancholy piano intro)
(out of tune) ♪ tell them all I know now
(audience cheers and applauds) ♪ shout it from the rooftop
♪ write it on the skyline ♪ all we had is gone now
♪ tell 'em I was happy
♪ and my heart is broken ♪ all my scars are open
♪ tell 'em what I hoped would be impossible-uh-ul ♪
♪ impossible-uh-ul
♪ impossib-uh hul!
(audience cheers and applauds)
Hip hop dancer, what's your name?
Hi, I'm adrianna vieux
Ken: Hi adrianna! Adrianna, what made you want to do the show?
I always told my friends if I could actually sing,
I would be a superstar. Shawn: There ya go! There ya go!
Ken: And you are a superstar! Please give it up
For adrianna, hip hop dancer!
Ashanti, your total is up to $30,000.
(ashanti screams in delight)
Let's get into it after the break on I can see your voice.
I didn't even know what song she was singing!
It's a song called impossib-uh-uh-hul!
(panelists laughing)
(theme tune)
Ken: Welcome back to I can see your voice.
Ken: Ashanti, you've a total of $30,000.
Ken: We are three down, three to go
And none of us know how many are good and how many are bad.
So, please remind us what you're playing for.
This is for my grandma, my daughter. This is it.
Shawn: Oh my god! Cheryl: Oh, wow!
Ken: Oh my goodness!
Ken: Why are you crying? Ashanti: I love her.
Ken: I know you do. Ashanti: I wanna do it for her.
Audience: Aww! Adrienne: So beautiful.
Well, we love you and we want to do this for you.
Ashanti: Thank you. Ken: After seeing that photo,
We got no choice but to make you some more money.
We gotta do this! (audience cheers and applauds)
Ken: Let's play...
(everyone joins in) unlock my life!
Ken: This season, we've given the game a dramatic shake-up,
And this week, it's unsolved voices.
Our I can see your voice detectives have been
Collecting evidence, taking notes and scrubbing social media
For clues to help identify if our secret voices
Are a good or bad singer. They've left their office
Filled with their findings, and now you have one minute
To use the joystick and camera that can help you clear up
This great unsolved mystery: Can they sing or not?
Ken: But just like always, you'll only get to investigate
One secret voice. And remember, if it's a good singer,
Then all those clues will be 100% true.
But if the singer is bad, then that evidence could all be lies.
Beekeeper. He is just not giving confidence.
And then the college professor,
The voice didn't really match to me.
So I want to solidify
The person who I think is a good singer,
And that is the stand-up comedian.
(audience applauds) ken: Let's play unlock my life -
Unsolved voices.
(audience cheers and applauds)
Ken: With the joystick, you can go...
..Oh, what's going on there?
Cheryl: So this is the detective's office.
Adrienne: Zoom in on that. Ken: Is someone singing?
Is that a tiktok video?
Ron: Let's look at that board! Oh!
Adrienne: Right there! Shawn: Who's in the pictures?
Shawn: Is that miguel? Okay, that's miguel.
Adrienne: There also was a screen in the back.
Shawn: Down and to the right. There go. That's it.
Ron: Okay. That's definitely not stand-up. That's not stand-up.
Shawn: The sticky notes. Cheryl: What's on the calendar?
Shawn: Vocal lessons! Ashanti: Okay, writing session.
Adrienne: Wait, go back to the map.
It could all be a lie. It could all be staged.
Just one big lie.
Cheryl: That looks like a podcast type of situation.
Shawn: Okay, let's keep going. Ron: That looks like singing.
That's not a comedian stance.
Ron: Comedians would never leave our crotches open like that.
(all laughing)
Adrienne: But is that even him? Cheryl: Right.
Shawn: That's true.
(all moan in frustration) ken: Guys, what are your notes?
Ashanti, let me talk to you directly.
(everyone laughing) ashanti: I'm listening! (laughs)
That one picture of him standing on the amp, he did not look like
He was in any type of stand-up pose at all.
I'm pretty sure he's a good singer.
Well, I was hoping to see more singing clues.
Adrienne: Yeah, there were none. Cheryl: But most of the time,
The pictures when he was in front of a microphone,
It looked like he was doing podcasts or he was sitting.
So, I think he is a bad singer. Audience: Ooh!
The picture with miguel, like, on stage, maybe that's one of
His favorite singers, maybe somebody he emulates.
Adrienne: It said "miguel posted"
His tiktok of him singing.
So the problema is it all could be a lie. This is the problem!
(everyone laughing) shawn: But just think,
There are a of comedians slash musicians.
Jamie foxx can sing. Adrienne: Oh! I have doubts
But shawn keeps convincing me that he's a good singer.
Ken: Okay, ashanti, it is time to make a decision.
(dramatic sound effects)
Why's it gotta be so dramatic?! (everyone laughs)
Ken: Who's it going to be? Ashanti: The stand-up comedian
Was a bit tricky but I'm still convinced
That he is a good singer based off of that performance alone.
(audience sighs hesitantly) ashanti: The college professor,
We don't know a lot about him besides what we saw earlier
But I believe his performance over beekeeper.
Ashanti: So, with that being said...
..I am going to say that beekeeper is a bad singer.
And I am lockin' it in!
Shawn: Okay. Cheryl: Okay! I like that.
Ken: Now, beekeeper...
(everyone joins in) let's see your voice!
I hope, I hope she's right.
(acoustic guitar intro)
Cheryl: No way. I don't think so. No way.
Please make me wrong.
He's gotta be bad.
(out-of-tune singing) ♪ and I don't want
♪ the world to see me (everyone cheering)
♪ 'cos I don't think that they'd understand ♪
♪ when everything's made to be broken ♪
I have been fooled!
♪ I just want you to know who I am ♪
Adrienne: I am just so happy. (whooping and cheering)
Cheryl: That was fantastic! Ken: Give it up for beekeeper.
(everyone cheers and applauds)
Ken: Who are you really and what's your name?
My name is adrian. I'm known as bearded beekeeper.
What made you want to do the show?
Adrian: I've three kids at home. They mean the whole world to me
And (voice breaking) I want to let them know that they
Could be whoever they want to be and do whatever they want to do.
There you go.
Ken: Give it up for beekeeper!
Ken: Ashanti, you've just made $15,000
Taking your total to $45,000.
Ken: You are just two decisions away from $100,000!
Adrienne: Wooo!
When we come back, the pressure is about to go through the roof.
This is I can see your voice only on fox.
Shawn: That was a great choice.
Ashanti: I was right! Shawn: Go with your gut.
(audience cheers and applauds)
Welcome back to I can see your voice!
Ken: Ashanti, you have now eliminated
One good singer and three bad singers
And have a total of $45,000.
(audience cheers and applauds) ken: It is time
For our final challenge.
It's interrogation.
(dramatic sound effects)
Ken: Ashanti, you're about to get the opportunity
To grill either one of our remaining secret voices
And hear their actual voice for the first time.
You'll get 30 seconds to ask them whatever you want
But then you have to eliminate one of them.
Ashanti: Here is my dilemma...
Do I go for the college professor to see if his voice
Is high like we heard in the lip sync challenge?
Or do I try to solidify
Whether the stand-up comedian is a good singer or not?
Ashanti: Hmm... I am going to interrogate
The college professor. (applause)
Ken: Okay, ashanti, your 30 seconds
Starts in three... Two... One... Go!
Ashanti: Your first music teacher? How old were you?
Miss littman, and that was in sixth grade, middle school.
Ashanti: Which artist is the hardest for you to cover?
Steven tyler.
Ashanti: Advice to your younger self about singing?
Just do it. Let it out.
Ashanti: Something you want to accomplish in music?
I would love to tour the world and perform my music.
If you could choose one person to mentor you, who would it be?
Justin timberlake. Ashanti: Any music awards?
Uh, in college, I won a battle of the bands.
Ashanti: Musical role model? Professor: Jt, justin timberlake
(applause) shawn: He's a justin fan.
Ashanti, was that (laughing) helpful?
Phew! Ken: Panel?
This show has officially made me question
Everything I think! (laughter)
I did not expect his voice to be as diesel!
So, I think he is a bad singer.
Yeah, the speaking voice matched what I thought he'd sound like.
The singing voice did not. I would drop him like a bad habit!
(laughter and applause)
Shawn: Ashanti, I personally didn't learn enough
For me to feel convinced. I think he's a bad singer.
Well, you know I love the college professor!
(everyone laughing)
I think he gives a great lecture...
(everyone laughing)
..But what if he teaches music in college?
Adrienne: Ohhh! Shawn: Ahhh!
Ken: Cheryl, that is brilliant! Cheryl: Fake pencil drop!
Ken: Oh, my gosh. Cheryl!
Cheryl: I think the college professor is a good singer.
(applause)
Ken: It is time to make a decision.
(dramatic sound effects)
Alright. The justin timberlake thing twice
Did kinda throw me off.
My gut...
..Is still telling me
That the stand-up comedian is a good singer.
(sighs)
And the college professor is a bad singer.
Okay. (sighs)
And I am lockin' that in!
(audience cheers and applauds)
Ken: Okay, that means stand-up comedian
Will be going through to the finale.
Go get ready because you're about to duet with none other
Than the legendary boyz ii men singer, shawn stockman!
But before we do that, college professor...
(everyone joins in) let's see your voice!
What's happening?
He is battling with his band. Cheryl: Battle of the bands.
Adrienne: Guys, he is absolutely a musical professor and he plays
The drums, the keys and whatever else they're about to bring out.
(gentle mid-tempo guitar intro)
(out of tune) ♪ I never knew
♪ I never knew that everything was falling through ♪
(all cheering wildly)
♪ that everyone around was waiting on a cue ♪
♪ to turn and run when all I needed ♪
♪ was the truth
♪ 'cos everybody knows I'm in over my head ♪
(voice breaking) ♪ over my head
♪ with eight seconds left in overtime ♪
(painfully out of tune) ♪ she's on your mind
♪ she's on your
♪ mind (sustained, shakily)
(music ends)
(audience cheers and applauds)
Ken: Wow. Who are you really? And what's your name?
My name is aaron, and I'm actual professor of communication
And a stand-up comic and entertainment host.
Ken: Wow! Adrienne: Okay!
Ken: So, aaron, what made you want to do this show?
I teach public speaking, and I wanted my students
To realize how important it is to be bold and to be courageous,
And I wanted to be on tv! (loud applause)
Shawn: Hey! Adrienne: Keep it real!
Ken: Please give it up for aaron, college professor!
Thank you for coming. (audience cheers and applauds)
(laughter)
Ken: Ashanti, you now have a total
Of $60,000! (ashanti squeals with joy)
This is it. We're down to our last secret voice.
And if that secret voice is a good singer...
..Ashanti, you could be taking home
$100,000.
Ashanti: Whoa! That's a lot of money.
This could literally change my life,
My daughter's life, my mom's life. It's a lot.
You need to make the biggest decision of your life...
..After the break. This is I can see your voice!
Adrienne: You seem to be extremely sure.
The comedian can sing.
Oh, my god!
(theme tune)
Welcome back to I can see your voice!
Ken: Ashanti, all game long,
You've been trying to find and eliminate the bad singers
So that a good singer is left standing up there
To duet with tonight's singing superstar,
Shawn stockman. (applause)
But here's the decision you have to make.
(dramatic sound effects)
Ashanti, you can either walk away with the $60,000
Or you can play on for one final round.
If stand-up comedian turns out to be a good singer,
Your winnings will shoot up to $100,000.
(audience cheers and applauds)
However, if you get it wrong
And stand-up comedian turns out to be a bad singer...
(suspenseful music) ..You go home with nothing.
Panel, what decision do you think ashanti should make?
Ashanti, this is a hard choice -
You already banked a lot of money
But the reason why you got that money
Is 'cos you're really good at this game.
I think he's a good singer. I think you should risk it.
I think you're going to take your daughter home $100,000.
(suspensful music continues) (audience cheers and applauds)
I think there's something really beautiful...
..About how you played this game.
So if you believe that he is a good singer...
..I say go for it.
(clock ticks)
$60,000 - you can do a lot with your family.
Cheryl: For me,
I would walk away with the money.
Shawn: Yeah... The stakes can't get any higher.
I think he's a good singer but this is for your family.
Use your heart. Even though it's called
I can see your voice, you gotta use your heart this time.
(tense music)
Ashanti, which way are you leaning?
(exhales nervously) oh!
(tense music continues)
From the beginning, he had a great performance.
I think he is a good singer
But unlock my life was a bit confusing.
Sixty thousand would mean so much to me.
(sharp exhale)
(indistinct advice from audience)
(voice cracking) I can give my grandma what she needs,
And for myself and my daughter.
(tense music builds)
Ashanti: So, um...
..I think I am going to...
(tense music builds)
..I'm going to take the 60,000. (audience cheers)
And I'm locking it in.
(everyone cheers and applauds enthusiastically)
Ken: Give it up for ashanti. Cheryl: Yes!
Ken: You've been a great contestant tonight.
That's the sacrifice of a mother, right there.
You've won $60,000.
(audience cheering and clapping)
Ken: But I'm sure you and america would
Love to find out what would have happened had you played on.
Ken: Shawn stockman, please go and join
Stand-up comedian on the stage of truth
For the grand duet finale.
(tense music)
(applause)
(gentle slow-tempo intro)
(shawn vocalizes intro) (audience cheers)
♪ listen, baby
♪ ain't no mountain high ♪ ain't no valley low
♪ ain't no river wide enough, baby ♪
♪ if you need me, call me ♪
♪ no matter where you are
♪ no matter how far
♪ just call my name
♪ I'll be there in a hurry
♪ you don't have to worry
♪ ohhh (vocalizing) ♪
(musical bridge)
(music builds)
(singing out-of-tune) ♪ 'cos baby, there
♪ ain't no mountain high enough ♪
♪ ain't no valley low enough (wild cheering and applause)
♪ ain't no river wide...
♪ to keep me from gettin' to you, babe ♪
(audience cheering hysterically)
(shawn laughing) ♪ no...
♪ no way
(uneven harmonizing) ♪ no winter's cold
♪ can stop me, baby
(shawn laughing) ♪ if you ever in trouble
♪ I'll be there on the double ♪ send for me
(comedian screeching) ♪ oh, baby
♪ ain't no mountain high enough ♪
♪ ain't no valley low enough ♪
♪ ain't no river wide enough
♪ to keep me from gettin' to you, babe ♪
(shawn vocalizing) ♪ nooo... Hey!
Shawn (laughing): Congratulations, ashanti!
(audience cheering wildly)
Mind blown!
Shawn: You had us fooled!
Ken: Ashanti! Right here, stand-up comedian!
Well played, ashanti! You get to keep
That $60,000 that will help you build that duplex,
And most importantly, for river blossom!
Yay! Ken: Oh, my goodness!
Cheryl: Oh, my god! (cheering and applause)
Ken: Are you really a stand-up?
I am. My name is nakia. Cheryl: Okay!
I wanted to do this show to put smiles on faces
With my performance, hopefully help someone win some money.
And it happened.
Cheryl: Your family is gonna be so proud of you.
Adrienne: Yes, yes. Ashanti: Thank you.
Thank you so much, ashanti.
Give it up for adrienne bailon-houghton, ron funches,
Cheryl hines,
And most of all, our musical superstar,
Shawn stockman! Stand-up comedian!
Thank you, america, for watching. Good night!
(theme tune)
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