South Bend band woman Named Tom nails 'The Voice' audition. Work with Kelly Clarkson subsequent.

© offered/NBC TYLER GOLDEN, Tyler Golden/NBC The siblings vocal group lady Named Tom — Joshua, left, Bekah and Caleb Liechty — function on the "blind audition" episode of "The Voice" on NBC.

lady Named Tom had been scheduled to function on the Goshen Theater on Oct. 1. however when the demonstrate bought out and demand for tickets remained, the South Bend-based community — Caleb, Josuha and Bekah Liechty — moved the live performance to Goshen college's Sauder live performance hall. 

If things go as they hope over the following couple of months, woman Named Tom may be trying to find even greater venues sooner or later. On Monday's season ultimate of the NBC singing competitors "The Voice," the acoustic pop trio advanced to the show's competitive stage.

"It became very validating to get hold of that chair turn from 4 of the biggest stars in the century," Joshua spoke of Wednesday morning whereas the three headed home to South Bend from travelling their folks in Archbold, Ohio.

Monday's and Tuesday's episodes were the "blind audition" rounds of the competitors, through which the 4 celeb judges listen to each and every act with their chairs turned to face the audience. If an act appeals to any of the judges, they hit a button that turns their chair round to face the performer.

In woman Named Tom's case, all 4 judges — Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson, John Legend and Ariana Grande — turned their chairs whereas the siblings sang Crosby, Stills & Nash's "Helplessly Hoping."

After some playful banter between the judges, a couple of questions for the siblings and pitches from every choose for them to be a part of his or her team, the group selected Kelly Clarkson to be their train.

"We definitely like how versatile Kelly Clarkson is in her personal song," Bekah said about their choice. "she can sing the rest from nation to pop. She's simply so miraculous."

Clarkson also was the first decide to turn her chair, and, Bekah referred to, that "performed into it. They're all amazing artists, however I feel we made a really good option with Kelly."

moving to South Bend

The siblings name the small city of Pettisville, Ohio (pop. 538), their place of birth, but they moved to South Bend last 12 months as a result of Joshua's lady friend is an Indiana university medical student in South Bend.

The pandemic also performed a task.

"After the pandemic hit, we have been all type of holed up in our parents' apartment," Joshua spoke of. "We wanted to branch out and have some more room. We spoke of, 'move to south Bend? Yeah, bound.'"

however that they had different ties to the enviornment, too: Caleb, 26, and Joshua, 24, both graduated from Goshen college, in 2018 and 2019, respectively. In 2019, they formed woman Named Tom with Bekah, 20.

Monday's episode of "The Voice" changed into taped, and on the grounds that then, the Liechtys have worked with Clarkson on some songs — they're not allowed to expose a lot greater than that.

"Kelly Clarkson, for being as noted (as she is), i used to be shocked through how heat and easy it is to be along with her," Caleb stated. "We're in a room with a dozen cameras and producers, and she's completely comfy and makes us believe the identical."

Up subsequent, girl Named Tom will enter the "combat" round, the place the trio will face one of the most different acts on Clarkson's crew.

both biggest challenges that they feel on "The Voice," Joshua mentioned, is in making ready their next music and in being faraway from family.

"We were accessible for a month working towards before the blind audition," he observed. "A month of apply for two minutes of exhibit time. You've got to make it count number."

© offered/NBC CHRIS HASTON, Chris Haston/NBC The siblings vocal group lady Named Tom — Joshua, left, Bekah and Caleb Liechty — passed the "blind audition" phase of "The Voice" on its Sept. 20, 2021, episode and advanced to the competitors. The group, which moved to South Bend in 2020 from the siblings' hometown in Ohio, selected Kelly Clarkson as their coach for Season 21 of the singing competition display. Sibling harmony, and who's Tom?

all the way through Monday's look on "The Voice," Joshua pointed to Bekah and stated, "She's the girl named Tom."

When Bekah turned into a baby, Caleb and Joshua called her "Thomas" and admitted there's been speculation that they wanted a younger brother, not a sister.

on account that then, even though, they've become a tight concord unit, as their many videos on YouTube attest, with their covers of such songs as YEBBA's "Evergreen," a medley of John Denver's "Take Me domestic, nation Roads" and Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson," and Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean."

"We grew up with loads of usual 4-part singing within the Mennonite church," Caleb stated. "We in reality pride ourselves on our three-half harmony. individuals inform us siblings have an instrument that no person else has, the three-half harmony."

They also grew up with a love of acoustic song that, Bekah spoke of, stems from their childhood, when their father would play acoustic guitar and he and their mother would sing to them.

All three also play a variety of instruments: guitar, piano, flute and non-drumkit percussion contraptions, such because the cajón, with an emphasis on acoustic preparations.

"We need to highlight our vocals," Bekah stated, "so in performing, we hold it pretty stripped down so that can shine through."

All four judges on "The Voice" exuberantly praised the three-part concord on "Helplessly Hoping," however Shelton additionally talked about one or extra of them will need to step out entrance at some factor as a soloist.

with a purpose to come, Caleb pointed out Wednesday, in the event that they proceed to increase on the display.

"one of the most fabulous issues about our sound is how at one we can be," he noted. "Yet we all have very diverse voices. … We hope to convey that out sooner or later on the display, to blow their own horns each and every of our voices one after the other."

© provided/NBC TYLER GOLDEN, Tyler Golden/NBC lady Named Tom — Joshua, left, Bekah and Caleb Liechty — perform Crosby, Stills & Nash's "Helplessly Hoping" on the Sept. 20, 2021, episode of "The Voice." A dream come genuine

thus far, lady Named Tom has released three albums independently — "Hits From the road," "a different World" and "23" — post several videos on YouTube and toured nationally.

"The Voice," absolutely, has taken them smartly above where they had been.

"We had simply achieved so a great deal work," Caleb said about the band's pre-pandemic journeying. "We had been visiting and enjoying suggests for 12 americans in basements. To be on a stage like 'The Voice' changed into just staggering and fairly powerful."

© supplied/NBC TYLER GOLDEN, Tyler Golden/NBC The siblings vocal group woman Named Tom — Joshua, left, Bekah and Caleb Liechty — interacts with the judges on the Sept. 20, 2021, episode of "The Voice."

For Bekah, acting on a singing competitors exhibit has lengthy been a dream, back to when she would "spend hours by myself singing" as a younger woman.

"in view that becoming a member of the band with my brothers," she referred to, "I didn't believe it changed into appropriate to depart my brothers."

but when they heard that "The Voice" accepts duos and trios, they decided to audition.

"i used to be capable of have my dream," Bekah talked about, "and bring the boys along. … i do know, and that i actually consider in my coronary heart, what I even have with my brothers and what we now have together is far more advantageous than anything else i will be able to do with most effective my voice."

On tv

"The Voice" airs at 8 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays on NBC.

In concert

• Who: woman Named Tom

• When: eight:30 p.m. Oct. 1

• where: Goshen college's Sauder live performance hall

• charge: $15

• For extra counsel: call 574-535-7566 or consult with goshen.universitytickets.com

• COVID-19 guidelines: Face masks should be worn consistently whereas indoors in spite of vaccination popularity, and either proof of vaccination or a negative COVID examine (inside 48 hours of the concert) is required for entrance into the venue.

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