Senior Nicholas Yeo is one of 15 singers to advance from the Cyclone Voice prelims to Thursday night's final competition. Alexander Gray/Iowa State Daily
Fifteen finalists will vie to become the next Cyclone Voice on April 11 in a competition hosted by country musician Mason Ramsey.
A video of Ramsey yodeling went viral last year, leading the 12-year-old to release his first extended play record. Ramsey will introduce each of the student performers. He also will perform a few songs during the judges' deliberations.
The event will take place in the Memorial Union Great Hall with doors opening at 7:30 p.m. Singing starts at 8 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.
Thirty students took part in the April 1 preliminary competition and judges selected the 15 finalists.
Cyclone Voice finalists
- Raia Arbisi, junior, psychology
- Andersen Coates, sophomore, architecture
- Dylan Ehlen, senior, finance
- Sam Fletcher, senior, mechanical engineering
- Emma Heyen, freshman, speech and language pathology
- Collin Hillinger, sophomore, mechanical engineering
- John Hoelzer, senior, mechanical engineering
- Antonia McGill, sophomore, psychology and women and gender studies
- Conor Nolan, sophomore, management information systems
- Kennedy Plowman, senior, speech communications
- Konrad Powell, graduate, horticulture
- Krishna Rangarajan, sophomore, aerospace engineering
- Brandon Thomas, sophomore, design
- Alli Weaver, senior, journalism and political science
- Nicholas Yeo, senior, management information systems
