Tessanne Chin put her own spin on Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song”. The song chosen by her coach Adam Levine landed Chin in the Top Five semi-finals. Her deeply rich, silky smooth vocals can never be contained reminding Christina Aguilera of a horseback ride on a Jamaican beach and an encounter with a man speaking “Jamaican”…LOL. Levine too said he’d gotten immersed in Chin’s performance, which showed off not only Marley’s “potency” and “power,” but Chin’s as well.
Chin’s second song, Katy Perry‘s “Unconditionally,” which she dedicated to her parents, was also off-the-charts good. “If it doesn’t show range to come out here and do Katy Perry and ‘Redemption Song’ by Bob Marley, then I don’t know what range is,” Levine said. But Shelton had, if anything, higher praise. He seemed exasperated that the other coaches had been so focused on Chin’s Jamaican/reggae roots. “You are a world-class vocalist,” he told her. “That’s what people should talk about.”