okay alright so in the last few weeks we
didn't put in a spotlight on the top ten
semi-finalists for the UH sake and you
saying competition and today we will
reveal the four finalists so we have
three that the judges picked and then
one is the wild card so the grand finale
if you will will be June 28th that's
Thursday at 9 p.m. at 1904 Music Hall
that's where it was last year it's a
great venue it's a lot of fun we had the
opportunity to do it we'll do it again
this year so I'm really looking forward
to that you know it's a prime-time
special the winner gets $500 and they
get really it's the honor to sing the
national anthem in front of all of
Jacksonville for our fourth of July
special right here on channel 4 I don't
want to make anybody nervous but that's
probably gonna be about a hundred
thousand people watching you just saying
yeah I can't do the math but a hundred
thousand there's average to like yeah
well you get let's take a look at Laura
[Music]
hi I'm Lauren for Skara and I'm from st.
John's Florida oh say can you see by the
dawn's early light have you ever heard
the expression the Mike loves you has
anybody ever said that to you it's
something that gets said rarely but the
Mike loves you
that means the microphone just takes
your voice and just YUM
thank you so much I've only said that
maybe three times in my career to
somebody at the Michael of G so that's
the highest of compliments do you sing
stuff other than Broadway you've got the
classic
you need to get out of New York that's
where I'm from that's where I'm from
I'm telling you I'm telling you she'd
have a show within six months
[Music]
Wow I mean she's amazing and those
complements you can't beat that
I shouldn't say never you rarely and I
mean rarely hear that kind of compliment
from her and that's like as where's me
not eating a meal there's quite a lot of
talent in this competition are you ready
to meet somebody else this is Vincent
small what's up you guys my name is
Vince's small and I am from Jacksonville
Florida
oh say can you see by the dawn's early
light nice I'll tell you what I wrote
nice and smooth great dynamics emotional
you sang the right notes you didn't put
in any extra notes you went up when you
were supposed to go up I've been
everything I've been telling everybody
before you to do you did
[Music]
ray
[Music]
Wow I mean how rare so that's two down
our third finalist is Zoey Bell let's
check her out
[Music]
hi I'm Zoe Bell and I'm from
Jacksonville Florida oh say can you see
by the dawn's early light best
performance of the day by far best
performance of the day we've had some
good ones in here everything works the
outfit the hair the voice the song
everything works
I agree was an awesome presentation very
very professional yeah I mean you you're
captivating you and that's what you
should be you know when you're a
performer you need to just bring
everybody in and and so that they drop
what they're doing and they can't take
their eyes off of you and they're just
into what it is you're about and that's
what happened and it was it was
beautiful
[Music]
right
[Music]
Wow I'm excited I mean three for three
yes yeah oh my god that says it all that
says it all
all right so the last person is the wild
card that you at home voted for and
about 10,000 votes total across the
board she grabbed 33% so right now
congratulations to Godiva simnet let's
take a look hi my name is Godiva Simek
I'm from Jacksonville Florida oh say can
you see by the dawn's early light we
just watch sounding afraid when you get
there whatever you sing sing it with
confidence you know what I mean very
nice you have a wonderful voice pick
your songs very carefully because with
some songs your voice just comes alive
your body comes with let you get into
the song and we can see it and but if
you're not really into it if you're
singing it for whatever is very visible
okay fantastic thank you so much
Bray
amazing congratulations Godiva are
getting in on the wild card last year's
wild card won the whole thing that's
what I got to say about all that
good luck judges seriously right right
so remember the final is June 28th I'll
be right here on channel 4 at 9:00 p.m.
sub primetime special at 92 for music
all as I said before what a great venue
to have everything this time around
we're gonna be in the back we're gonna
be on stage gonna be all over the place
really gonna move but now the doors yeah
oh we're hosting did you get that email
rants ocean in there cuz that's what we
do so yeah your River City life ends
gonna be out there for oh say can you
sing and I will not be singing so now
people are definitely tuning yeah yeah
yeah definitely