'The Voice:' Did Blake Shelton's playoff pass singer make it to the semifinals?

Everyone is firing on all cylinders on “The Voice,” and Blake Shelton is feeling the heat.

Team Blake singer NOIVAS stunned coaches Shelton, Chance the Rapper, Niall Horan and Kelly Clarkson during the first round of the playoffs Monday night. During the playoffs round, each remaining contestant performs a solo for their coach in an effort to advance to the live semifinals. Each coach is allotted two spots.

NOIVAS opened the show with a soulful rendition of “Come Together” by The Beatles, thrilling the coaches with his vocal agility and theatrical stage presence.

“You’ve brought a different level of energy every week, and this week you’ve come out and you’ve put on one of the best performances we’ve seen on this show,” Horan said.

Clarkson called the singer frontrunner material. “I have no idea how you don’t make it,” she said. “I think I’m going to see you in the finale.”

The strength of NOIVAS’ performance, however, created a conundrum for Shelton, who was tasked with eliminating more than half his team.

“NOIVAS came out here and he set the bar for the entire competition,” Shelton said. “I have other performances to see, but he’s going to make this a tough decision for me. … This is painful.”

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Manasseh Samone of Team Chance, who earned the playoff pass on her team, slowed things down with an emotional performance of “Speak the Name” by gospel singer Koryn Hawthorne, a former contestant on “The Voice.”

“I just love a passionate performance. You felt it, you meant it, you believe it,” Clarkson told the 23-year-old. “It looks like a finale moment right now.”

Samone’s journey on the show (she auditioned unsuccessfully for Season 22), coupled with the spiritual quality of her performance, made an impression on Chance.

“The fact that you’ve been on the show a season before and didn’t make it past blind (auditions), you came back and got the playoff pass. You’re here performing a song from a past ‘Voice’ contestant who went on to make it huge as a gospel artist,” Chance said. “It feels very ordained, and I thought it was (the) coolest thing I’ve seen so far.”

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Blake Shelton says Mary Kate Connor ‘proved that she deserved’ playoff pass

Team Blake singer Mary Kate Connor, who skipped the knockout rounds thanks to her playoff pass, tugged at the heartstrings with her tender performance of “If I Die Young” by The Band Perry.

“You’re a magical storyteller. I feel like you should maybe get into acting as well,” Clarkson told the 18-year-old. “Your strength really is in that intimate part that’s almost like a broken little secret that you’re relaying.”

Shelton appreciated Connor’s emotional delivery of the country ballad.

“What you did ultimately was deliver the message in a way that was believable and authentic and real,” Shelton said.

Shelton added: “Mary Kate was my playoff pass, and I think she proved that she deserved that position.”

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Who went home on ‘The Voice’?

Team Blake singers NOIVAS and Grace West earned the last two spots on Shelton’s team for the semifinals, sending home contestants Connor, Kylee Dayne and Rachel Christine.

West wowed Shelton with her warm cover of “Love Is Alive” by The Judds.

“She is the real deal. She is pure country,” Shelton said. “My dream was, since this is my last season, that I can go into the lives with a country artist, and she is absolutely the perfect country artist to have for this moment.”

Singers Sorelle and Ray Uriel clinched semifinal spots on Team Chance, sending home contestants Samone, Jamar Langley and Kala Banham. Uriel floored Chance with his intimate rendition of “Essence” by Wizkid and Tems.

“Ray is an amazing artist,” Chance said. “He has potential not just as a vocalist but as a writer, and I’m always just looking for uniqueness. What he brings to the show is himself.”

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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: 'The Voice': Blake Shelton's singer NOIVAS advances to semifinals