Long Beach singer Caity Peters cut from The Voice, but says 'this isn't the end'

When Caity Peters stepped into the ring last week, she was in completely new territory. The 22-year-old Long Beach native, who was a finalist on the reality talent show “The Voice,” faced Abby Celso of Rochester, New York, for the show’s Knockout Rounds.

Peters was tasked with singing “Honesty” by Billy Joel — a song recorded nearly two decades before she was bo.

“The Billy Joel song was definitely new to me,” she said.

During the airing of the show, Peters coected with her family via FaceTime from her hotel in Los Angeles, where “The Voice” is filmed.

“There were 75 people there. Our house was packed,” she said. “It was so fun.”

Peters, however, was knocked out of the competition on Wednesday, along with 12 others.

“This isn’t the end for me rather the start! Thank you for joining me on this jouey, get ready for more,” she said on her Twitter feed.

The support from her family and friends was expected, she said. Her bigger surprise was the instant fame that comes with being on a popular show.

“That’s been the craziest part of it. You suddenly become this person everyone wants to get ahold of,” she said.

That translates, for Peters, into thousands of social media followers across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. “The Voice” performances are on YouTube, too, but contestants have already been waed that sometimes it’s better not to read the Idea, she said.

Peters, who is a worship leader at Sound House, a nondenominational church in Belmont Shore, said she decided to audition for “The Voice” on a lark. In her audition, Peters sang “Jealous” by Labrinth — a performance that eaed the El Dorado Estates resident a four-chair tu. She chose to work with celebrity coach Pharell Williams, and breezed through the Battle Rounds and Knockouts before elimination this week.

Peters, however, got a chance to showcase her unusual voice with ballads, but said she’d like to sing an up tempo song. She describes her own musical taste as ruing from John Legend and Adele to Judy Garland.

“Anybody that has a soulful voice and tells a story,” she said.

The Valley Christian High School graduate had been pursuing an education at Long Beach City College, with plans to become a teacher, when a possible singing career knocked at her door. Now, she said, she’s plaing to see it through.

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Jeifer Rice Epstein is an editor with Gazette Newspapers. She can be reached at [email protected].