Everyone knows The Voice and The Voice Kids as a really fun audition-style contest where contestants attempt to win a coach and hopefully the season.
You are almost guaranteed either pure talent or an adorable performance, but sometimes it’s both.
You never know what you’ll get from each performer.
Plus the show has gone global allowing people from all corners of the planet to showcase their singing talents.
The contestants aren’t always who or what they seem to be.
Meet Sofie Thomas.
Young Sofie starred in the fifth season of The Voice Kids Germany .
I can assure you, she is no bubblegum pop singer or some sort of new Miley Cyrus.
She sang in a children’s choir at the Opera House of Hanover, going to a prep class for musically gifted children of the School of Music and Drama in her hometown.
Opera and choir have a funny way producing incredible singers and she is no different.
You would expect a young girl to sing a popular mainstream hit or at least a genre commonly associated with her age.
But no. Sofie delivered a literal “Hail Mary” with her performance for the finale.
Austrian maestro Franz Schubert’s “Ave Maria” is from 1825.
The text is actually a derivation from Sir Walter Scott’s famous poem, “The Lady of the Lake”.
The song has been pretty much adopted by Roman Catholics as a prayer hymn, which bears the same name.
There are many versions of this song, aside from it being played in churches.
These songs made up Schubert’s opus 52, “Liederzyklus von Fraulein vom See.”
Opus is the Latin word for work for a composition, and the number refers to the order in which a composer wrote something.
It’s a literal classic and Sofie Thomas sang it on stage with grace and impeccable power.
Not something viewers were expecting from this young lady.
Close your eyes and listen, and you’d swear you were listening to a real pro, but one that looks like an adult.
This young girl in her blue dress stood with all confidence on a stage, in front of judges who act as coaches, in front of a studio audience and cameras who televised her act for the world to see.
And Sofie nailed Schubert’s classic.
Perhaps it’s only fitting since in Catholicism and art, the Virgin Mary is often depicted wearing blue.
Sofie here should perform in the Vatican or St. Peter’s Square during one of those big events.
Her soaring command of the song would move the pope himself to tears.
It’s like a hushed stunned silence fell over the audience and the judges as she sang to the high heavens.
To think Schubert never intended for the song to be used in church or the like.
But it does have that effect especially when sang by gifted individuals like Sofie here.
She rarely shows emotion, often focused or just smiling sweetly the whole time.
But that voice though.
Watch and listen to young Sofie’s incredible rendition of Schubert’s classic below!
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