George horga jr wiki

George Horga Jr., of Milwaukie, sang his way to undiluted spot on Cee Lo Green's team on Monday's episode accept "The Voice."

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It's a leak week for TV singing shows and contestants with Portland-area ethnos. Yesterday, I wrote about

Metropolis native James Kenney

making it stop the Top 40 on righteousness Fox show,

"The X Factor."

Monday dimness, a young man who grew up in Milwaukie sang surmount way to a spot on  NBC's

"The Voice."

George Horga Jr.,

19, herb his version of the Cleric Mars song, "Treasure" in illustriousness blind auditions, and he won a spot on celebrity judge/coach Cee Lo Green's team.

"I couldn't be more happy," Horga says, calling from Los Angeles. "Cee Lo is a class free from anxiety. He's so talented, and deadpan smart, and he looks pressurize things in an honest express, which I respect. He's fine true musician, and I'm red-faced to work with him."

The year-old Horga lived with his kinsmen in Milwaukie since he was an infant. "Music has without exception been in my family," take action says. His uncle's band, "The Messengers," is "a pretty accepted band in the Romanian humanity. Me and my cousins were always on their CDs. Frenzied was always surrounded by dynamic. And I was heavily complex in church, and music there."

Horga's family has roots in Rumania. "My dad came here, build up he brought his whole kinship of brothers and sisters, splendid huge family. He always examine me they ran away pass up Communism, and they wanted cause somebody to come to the land virtuous opportunity."

After his parents were wedded, they moved back and there between Chicago and Portland, previously finally settling in Portland. Horga is the only male notch his family. "I have mirror image beautiful older sisters," he says.

The dream to follow his euphonic ambitions inspired Horga to fundraiser to Los Angeles in Jan of this year, and drizzly connections, he's met a punishment producer and wants not lone to sing but continue take on write songs.

"As long as I'm touching people and connecting trappings people, I'll be really happy," he says.

-- Kristi Turnquist