Showbiz Reporter
The top 11 South African Idols finalists were announced on Sunday after fans of the show had spent two weeks voting for their favourite idols.
Auditions for Season 10 began in February in Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town and Pretoria with the last round ending in March. After queuing and auditioning for several times to get a Golden ticket, 16 people were selected for the first round of finals to sing for South Africa’s votes. From there, fans of the show made their voices heard and the finalists were this Sunday trimmed down to 11.

The first two Top 11 finalists, 25-year-old Vincent Verhoog from Cape Town and 24-year-old Ivan Roux from Pretoria, were announced last week after an on-screen communication error. Joining them, in alphabetical order are Bongi Silinda, 23, London Louw, 24, and Vincent Bones, 29.

The four contestants who garnered the most votes were Kyle Deutschmann, 27, Lize Mynhardt, 21, Musa Mashiane, 24, and Tumi Morobane, 21.

The final two spots in the Top 11 line-up were filled by Idols judges Randall Abrahams, Unathi Msengana and Gareth Cliff, who exercised their Wild Card privilege and picked two Capetonian ladies: Demi Lee, 24, and 20-year-old Roxy McVean.

The Top 11’s long journey to the Idols Season 10 finalé will kick off with a two-hour live show on September 21 – with some expert guidance from this week’s musical mentor, American singer-songwriter Gordon Chambers.

Meanwhile, some of the Season 10 singers who are memorable for other reasons are starring in the “Wooden Mic Special Edition” show every Tuesday on Mzansi Magic – along with some never-before-seen footage from the Idols Season 10 audition road show, when the judges thought the cameras weren’t rolling!

 

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