Musicology student Claudia Emmanuela Santoso is the new "Voice of Germany". The 19-year-old won the ninth season of the talent show on ProSieben and Sat.1 by a huge margin on Sunday night. She was supervised by singer and songwriter Alice Merton (26). This was the first time a women's duo won the music show. "It feels really good that a woman has finally won in nine years," Merton said.
Even before the final Santoso was acted by many as a clear favorite. In the more than three-hour live final from Berlin-Adlershof, she convinced the television viewers on each of her three appearances. No matter if she sang her song "Castles" together with the singer Freya Ridings, covered Whitney Houston's "I have Nothing" or performed the song "Goodbye" specially written for her by Coach Alice - the audience and the coaches were always enthusiastic.
Candidates performing on Sunday with stars like Dua Lipa ("New Rules"), Dermot Kennedy ("Power Over Me") and Max Raabe ("No Pig Calling Me") have their own singles for the first time in years The finals are sung - in duets with their coaches.
First to the university, then on tour
The student from Indonesia, who has been living in Munich for about one and a half years, ended up with 46.39 percent of the audience votes against Erwin Kintop (17.36 percent), Lucas Rieger (14.33 percent), Fidi Steinbeck (12.51 Percent) and Freschta Akbarzada (9.41 percent) - a clear lead. "I'm totally speechless now, I never expected to become a winner of The Voice of Germany," she said.
From the 6th of December, Santoso and the other finalists will be on a big tour through Germany. However, on Tuesday, the 19-year-old has yet to pass a literature exam at the university.
