The Voice runner-up Dia Frampton seemed like the shyest person on the planet (next to Xenia, of course) but she claims that’s just not the case.
On performing Heartless in the Quarterfinals and being compared to how Kris Allen covered the same song during Season 8 of American Idol:
“Honestly, I still don’t know who Kris Allen is. I haven’t watched Idol since Kelly Clarkson’s year, when I was a lot younger. [People] did tell me The Fray had done a cover, and Blake actually was the one who said, ‘Have you heard it? You could kind of go off of that.’
On appearing shy on TV:
Javier Colon was named the first ever winner of The Voice Wednesday night but he still can’t believe it’s for real.
Colon told Celebuzz in a post-win interview that he thought he had lost and was ready to congratulate co-finalist Dia Frampton when Carson Daly announced his name instead.
That’s fascinating considering his amazing talent, his favored status since day one, and his captivating stage presence, all of which was only amplified by the fact that Justin Bieber Tweeted to his then 10.6 million followers several times to vote for Colon in The Voice finale.
And if that weren’t enough, Bieber’s manager, Scooter Braun, also got behind the Twitter campaign and asked his almost 900K fans to do the same.
Despite such massive and unparalleled support for any of the other three finalists, Colon wasn’t convinced he’d win. “I was 100 percent in my mind, I was ready and prepared for Carson to say, ‘And the winner of The Voice is Dia Frampton.’ I was going to be okay with that because I absolutely love Dia. She is amazing and deserved a win as much as we all did,” Colon told Celebuzz.
OK, so, the win was unexpected for Colon, but, now, back to the possible game-changing Bieber plug–remember, only 2% of the votes separated Colon and runner-up Frampton. Did Colon know he would get the support of the second most popular celeb on Twitter before the finale? “Not at all,” Colon told Celebuzz. “Adam had played basketball with Justin at one point and knew his manager Scooter Braun, so they both tweeted out to their millions of followers to vote for me. Not sure if it was Adam’s connection to Justin or what, but he put his support behind me, and it meant a lot.”
NBC aired The Voice finale results show Wednesday, June 29, 2011. One of the four finalists, Beverly McClellan, Javier Colon, Vicci Martinez, or Dia Frampton was crowned the first-ever Voice winner.
Performers tonight included Stevie Nicks, Train singer Pat Monahan, OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder, and Miranda Lambert, wife of Blake Shelton.
5:00 PM EST Finalists are introduced
5:08 PM EST Commercial break
5:13 PM Vicci Martinez is performing a duet with Pat Monahan
5:21 Javier Colon and Stevie Nicks singing a duet
5:30 Commercial break
5:35 Beverly McClellan performing with Ryan Tedder
5:40 Commercial break
5:48 Dia Frampton sings with Miranda Lambert
5:57 JAVIER COLON ANNOUNCED WINNER! Dia Frampton came in second!
Sadly, NBC’s The Voice is ending tonight in a star-studed finale Wednesday night, only a few short weeks after it steam-rolled into our living rooms.
Team Blake Shelton’s Dia Frampton performed the original song Inventing Shadows on Tuesday (June 28) night’s The Voice finale on NBC.
Christina Aguilera said the performance was very lovely but Christina focused too much on the distraction Dia’s backup dancers had on the performance. Christina, obviously still thinking about Blake’s questioning of her use of props during a song by her former contestant Lily Elyse, asked Blake: “How can you get away with those distracting visual bells and whistles?” “With a great singer like Dia Frampton, that’s how,” Blake answered, putting a period on that debate.
Cee Lo Green said it was wonderful as usual and that she never ceases to amaze him and says the song will be number #1 on iTunes.
Adam Levine said it’s such a cool song and she’s so nice. Blake Shelton said it will be distracting for the other coaches when they turn on their iPhones in about 30 minutes to find Dia way up at the top of the charts.
Dial (855) 864-2303 to vote for Dia tonight.
Watch Dia’s performance below:
Wednesday (6/22) night, The Voice eliminated four more singers and sent four hopefuls to the finals. At the start of the show, we still had the following in contention:
Team Christina Aguilera: Frenchie Davis, Beverly McClellan
Team Adam Levine: Javier Colon, Casey Weston
Team Cee Lo Green: Vicci Martinez, Nakia
Team Blake Shelton: Xenia, Dia Frampton
The judges had 100 points to divide between each of the two remaining contestants on their team. That score was combined with fan votes to see who would be safe and who would be voted off and eliminated tonight.
RESULTS:
Team Cee Lo: Vicci wins over Nakia
Cee Lo gave 51 points to Nakia and 49 to Vicci
When the fan votes were added in, Vicci had a total score of 124 and Nakia 76
Team Adam: Javier wins over Casey
Team Blake: Dia wins over Xenia
Team Christina: Beverly wins over Frenchie
Christina split her votes evenly and gave each 50
When the fan votes were added in, Beverly had a total score of 107 and Frenchie 93
Dia Frampton won the judges over with her rendition of R.E.M.’s Losing My Religion performed during the second half of The Voice elimination show Tuesday June 21.
Frampton had already wowed us when she performed Kanye West’s Heartless earlier in the season–a rendition which turned into a top 20 song in iTunes sales.
Her coach Blake Shelton joined the praises by joking that he is worried Frampton will release a song and blow his songs off the charts because she is that good. After a standing ovation, Shelton said: “That’s what this show is about. A girl stood out here on this stage an performed and left her heart and soul on the stage. That’s what you’re supposed to do and you do it every time.”
The Voice June 14, 2011 spoiler results and live blogging: From Team Christina: Frenchie Davis and Beverly McClellan are safe. Lily Elise and Raquel Castro are voted off and eliminated. Christina Aguilera saved Frenchie and America saved Beverly.
on Team Blake Shelton: America saved Dia Frampton – no shocker there. Blake saved Xenia. Patrick Thomas and Jared Blake went home.
And there you have it….
