[ Soft music plays ]
-♪ Killing me softly ♪
♪ With his song ♪
[ Music intensifies ]
♪ I heard he sang a good song ♪
♪ I heard he had a style ♪
♪ And so I came to see him ♪
♪ And listen for a whi-i-i-le ♪
-Whoo! Come on. -There we go. There we go.
-That was cool. -♪ And there he was ♪
♪ This young boy ♪
♪ A stranger to my eyes ♪ [ Music intensifies ]
-Congratulations. -Come on, girl.
-♪ Strumming my pain with his fingers ♪
-One time, one time. -Yeah!
-♪ Singing my life with his words ♪
♪ Killing me softly with his song ♪
♪ Killing me softly ♪
♪ With his song ♪
♪ Telling my whole life ♪
♪ With his words ♪
♪ Killing me so-o-o-o-ftly ♪ -Whoo!
-♪ With his song ♪
♪ Ohhhh-oh-oh-oh, hey ♪
♪ Oh-whoa ♪
♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah ♪
♪ Whoa-whoa-whoa ♪
♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ahhh ♪
♪ With his so-o-o-o-o-ng ♪
-That's cool.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Two chairs. That's great. -She got two.
-♪ So-o-o-o-o-ng ♪
-Yeah!
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Crazy.
-What's your name? Where are you from?
Hi. I'm Ali. I am from Walnut, California.
I'm 24 years old.
And a fun fact about me is, I am hearing-impaired.
-What?! -Really?
-I wear two hearing aids. I was born deaf.
I'm so blessed to be able to share this.
-Yeah. -Oh, my God. That's crazy.
-That's insane. -[ Laughs ] Thank you.
-Your runs were so intricate and cool and different.
That's a gift.
-You were amazing, but the second they turned,
I knew you were set up. [ Coughs ]
Whoa. -Son, are you okay?
-I'm okay, Dad. [ Coughs ] [ Laughter ]
You are incredible.
Any sort of adversity that you've had in your life,
you are just jumping hurdles here,
and it's incredible to watch,
so I wish you the best of luck, Ali.
-Thank you. -If you had lined up
all the singers that we've heard so far
and then said, "Pick which one is hearing-impaired,"
you would be the -- probably the last one
that I would say.
That vocal was just incredible.
The only reason I didn't hit my button
is because that's so far out of my lane musically.
Outside of that, wow.
-Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
-Sometimes you hear a song that you know so well,
it's embedded in you, that some people change it,
it can kind of be weird, but the changes you made --
they were so you, like, I was like,
"I need to turn around and see who is singing this."
That was really cool. -Thank you so much.
-Ali, I would love to be your coach.
I have really cool jackets. [ Laughter ]
Welcome to "The Voice,"
regardless of which team you're on.
I'm so happy you're here. -Yeah!
-Thank you so much.
-Ali, I'm just still so stunned
to hear that you're hearing-impaired.
I work with this awesome organization called
DEAFinitely Dope that does a lot of ASL performances...
-Oh, right on. -...for all, like,
the festivals nationally. I've made a lot of friends
from the deaf and hard-of-hearing community,
and I think it's so dope that they could
look to somebody that loves music as much as they do.
I think that's super important and powerful.
Naturally, you just have an amazing voice,
and all the choices that you were making felt very soulful.
I would love to hear you sing some gospel.
-I grew up singing that. -I could tell.
I feel like we would make a great partnership going.
And like Kelly has the sweatshirt...
-I feel like we would make a great team, too.
-Okay, you could have a jacket, or --
-Oh, look at this unveiling. ...you could join Team Chance...
-Whoa. -Ooh. I'm --
-I'm a sucker for hats. ...and get a fire hat.
But either way, welcome to "The Voice."
-Thank you so much. -Yes!
-Thank you so much. Thank you.
-Ali, who would you like to be your coach?
[ Audience shouting ]
-Chance.
-Kelly. -Chance.
♪♪
-Chance! -Chance! Chance!
-Um...
Alright, so...
Just so hard to choose, but I think ultimately...
I have to go with Kelly.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Oh, yes!
Ali is incredible.
I'm just excited to work with someone who...