Idols Season 12 Top 16' title='Idols Season 12 Top 16' />IN PICTURES Idols SA Season 12s top 10 unveiled. The top 15 candidates of Idols SA Season 12. Euro 14. 39. South African Idol Season 12 Gets The Top 16 Singers Who Will Battle. Idols. South African Idol Season 12 Gets The Top. Top 16 contestants for Idols SA season 11. Geoinformatics at the University of Stellenbosch before getting into the Idols SA Season 11 Top 16. The second half of the season 15 American Idol top 24 compete Wednesday night. Billboard returned to Vibiana. Us Weekly Magazine. News Stylish Moms Entertainment Pets. The American Idol season 14 Top 12 is chosen. Meet the Idols SA season 1. Top 1. 6Night owls and TV fans Join Channel. Tuesday morning for LIVE updates of the Primetime Emmy Awards. Johannesburg They have queued. They have auditioned. And auditioned again. And they survived the toughest Idols. And now they are in the Top 1. South Africas votes. The first group of eight Top 1. Top 1. 0 are Bongi Silinda, Celine Homan, Chante Geary, Ivan Roux, London Louw, Mirandi Smith, Vincent Bones and Vincent Verhoog. Watch Seconds Apart Download Full. They will give it their all next week Sunday  3. August at 1. 7 3. M Net and Mzansi Magic and the week thereafter Sunday, 7 September it will be the turn of the second group of eight, namely Demi Lee, Kyle Deutchmann, Lize Mynhardt, Musa Mashiane, Olivia Cloud, Rowan de Villiers and Roxy Mc. Dean. In next weeks episode host Pro. Verb will explain how the voting will work. In the meantime, heres a closer look at the Top 1. Bongi Silinda. Professional backup singer Bongi, 2. Nelspruit famously won her Idols Golden Ticket on her second try this year. Bongi auditioned at the first Idols Season 1. Carnival City Casino and Entertainment World on Gautengs East Rand, but the judges didnt like her song, Stand Up For Love. So she tried again a few weeks later at the State Theatre in Pretoria with Beyonc. Bongi who has done backup vocals for the likes of Vusi Mahlasela was planning to study music next year, but now she would rather try to get herself a recording deal. Celine Homan. Feisty Celine Homan from Gordons Bay has rocked the auditions with her Goth looks and unusual voice. Sa Idols Season 12Even though shes known for her rebellious ways, she also has a soft side and an immense passion for horses, the arts and children. Celine says it was her mom who pushed her to enter Idols. She and granddad have been pushing me ever since I performed on stage with mom at age 7, so of course I rebelled and would have nothing to do with music. Chante originally hails from e. Malahleni but these days she calls the Jacaranda City home where she studies towards her Drama degree at the University of Pretoria. During the first auditions Chante brought her ukulele along she collects and plays unusual musical instruments but at the end of her solo performance at theatre week, Randall called her. Season 12 American Idol ContestantsIm doing it for her When she doesnt sing, youll find the active Demi Lee on a wakeboard, on a quad bike or in the swimming pool. Ivan Roux. The handsome Ivan Roux, 2. Centurion originally achieved success as a hairdresser, but he took the plunge in February this year to set the combs down and start gigging as a full time professional singer songwriter. Ivan is a self taught musician who learned to play the guitar by Googling instructions. He is a chiropractor from Durban, who has also played on the South African national beach soccer team in his day and who also features as a guest artist on Cassper Nyovests megahit album, Tsholofelo. Yet the 2. 6 year old is laid back about his many achievements. He has auditioned every year since 2. Season 1. 0. Along the way London dropped 3. No wonder London knows how to practice mind over matter he holds a B Soc Psy degree in clinical neuropsychology. Lize Mynhardt. Lize Mynhardt was more relieved than most contestants when she won her Golden Ticket to Idols Season 1. Comm financial management course at the University of Stellenbosch. Thats why Im here Logistically I cant do my degree and Idols, and I want to do Idols and commit to it wholeheartedly,Mirandi got married young, at age 1. Still only 2. 6, she now performs as a popular local singer in the Rustenburg area. At the auditions the judges praised her tender, soulful performance and during the Theatre Round she wowed the crowd with Riana Nels Dans, an Afrikaans song she has never heard before. She describes her kind own kind of style as Musa Mashiane is a professional musician and a close friend of the Idols SA Season 9 winner, Musa Sukwene, with whom he performed in an e. Malahleni band back in the day with the rather prophetic name of Choice Assorted And that is also how he met his girlfriend of the past two years, a microbiologist named Thandekile. Tumi Morobane. 20 year old Tumi was a first year Musical Theatre student at the Tshwane University of Technology when she caught the eagle eyes of the Idols judges at this years Pretoria auditions. And since that day her confidence as a performer has already increased tenfold especially after the positive feedback she got from the judges during. Gareth Cliff told her after her groups performance to please believe in herself a little more, because he does, and Randall Abrahams lectured that she needed to take a good long look in the mirror and ask herself if she thinks she looks like a pop star. And Tumi says that comment has made all the difference. Her father, Neil, was a household name in the late Seventies and early Eighties as the drummer for South Africas first supergroup, Rabbitt. Ive done a play that toured around the country called. In the meantime his coaching career really started to take off, but then this year his girlfriend, Cheyenne, pushed him to enter Idols. Roxy, a second year music student at COPA in Cape Town, describes her unique look as Rockabilly pin up and she doesnt like it when people assume that shes just imitating Amy Winehouse like Randall Abrahams did during Hell WeekAfter his mom and uncle passed away, Vincent left Eldorado Park on a train at the tender age of 1. Sunnyside. A stint in Boys Town turned his life around and he now works as a church worship leader at the Eagle Christian Centre in Pietermaritzburg, the city where he currently lives with his wife and their baby boy. Vincent describes his musical style as old school R B, retro soul. I love the old stuff, like Teddy Pendergrass, he says. Im finally here. I auditioned five times made it to Sun City three times, the guy who has been dubbed the shows emo man reflected when he finally heard the good news from the judges at Sun City. Vincent, who works as a driver for an industrial supplier, says his approach failed him in previous seasons. He also credits his unfailingly supportive wife of two years, who has encouraged him every step of his difficult way. Idols South Africa Season 1. M Net and Mzansi Magic. Meet the Idols SA Top 16 contestants. Top 16 Its Anyones Game Article It Was Highlights Galore What was your favourite moment from Idols Season 12 finale The moment Noma won. American Idol Season 11. Phillips at the American Idols Live Idols South Africa. From our very own Idols SA Season 12 finalists to other greats. Top 16 It. To stay on top of all the Idols South Africa Season 1. Idols SA on Twitter Idols. SA and the official Idols Facebook page at Idols South Africa.