Johannesburg - Billboard Music Award winner Carly Rae Jepsen is the special guest artist for Sunday night’s Idols SA Season 11 Top 5 Spectacular at the State Theatre in Pretoria.
The 29-year-old Canadian pop star originally got her first break in Idols as well, coming third in season 5 of the Canadian Idol in 2007. Since then she has gone on to dominate world charts with hit after hit, such as 2011’s Call Me Maybe and I Really Like You this year.
Jepsen kicked her South African tour off in Cape Town on Wednesday night when she rocked the Grand West Arena with South African fans, young and old, being mesmerised by her.
She also had a second show at the Monument Amphitheatre in Pretoria on Saturday afternoon before being the special Idols SA guest alongside the Season 11 Top 5 on Sunday afternoon.
The dual musical themes for the Top 5 this week are How It Should Be Done and Viewers’ Choice.
As always, even though the remaining contestants will be rehearsing hard all week, not all of the Top 6 will get to perform today.
The one receiving the least votes this week will have to bid their Idols SA dream farewell during the broadcast.
The remaining Top 5 will each perform two numbers. In the first round they will demonstrate how this year’s Wooden Mic contenders should have performed their songs, and in the second round they will sings songs suggested to them by Idols SA fans on WeChat.
Little Miss Dynamite, Dineo Moseki, 22, from Vryburg, will demonstrate how Golden Mic contender Barry de Sousa should have approached the Tracy Chapman classic Baby Can I Hold You, and for the second round, Idols SA fan “T@biâ” suggested the Etta James classic All I Could Do Was Cry for her.
Karabo Mogane, 24, from Mbombela is performing Alicia Keys’s I Keep On Falling, which was massacred by Nofesane Bushula in the season 11 auditions, and his fan favourite number is Ringo Madlingozi’s Ekuseni, suggested by Idols SA fan Nqoh.
Loyiso Gijana, 16, from Uitenhage, will be showing Golden Mic wannabe Nonelela Bashe how Zahara’s Ndiza should be done, and Idols SA fan Thimna Nobebe suggested Bob Marley’s One Love for the second round.
Mmatema Moremi, 23, from Limpopo, will do a proper interpretation of Mary Mary’s gospel classic I Can't Give Up Now, which was attempted by Ziyanda Stefane during the auditions phase, and Idols SA fan Tintswalo Faith’s choice of Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You for the second round.
Rhema Varrie, 21, from Alberton, is taking on Bruno Mars’ sBillionaire, which Wooden Mic contender Gavin Msiza did in the auditions, and in the second round he performs the Percy Sledge classic When a Man Loves a Woman, for Idols SA fan Thuly Zondo.