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"Face Off" Round 2: Peays Vs. Lorentzens

After the big announcement that The Oswald Brothers Band had won the Early Show viewer vote in the first finalists' match-up in the show's "Singing Family Face Off" competition, it was time to move on to the second: the Peays against the Lorentzens.

The Peays Band consists of four brothers from Greensboro, N.C.

Taimine, Katif, Majid and Solomon Peay often sing a cappella, with their mom, Joyce Peay, behind them all the way.

Whether in church or at local 4-H gatherings, the Peay brothers have sung, together and often, most of their lives.

Joyce acts as their manager. Their father passed away when they were younger, but remains a big influence in their music.

The Lorentzens, whose specialty is harmonizing, hail from Sparks, right outside Reno, Nev. The group is made up of sisters Kathryn, 14, Lisa, 16, and Anne, 19, as well as their brother, Mark, 23.

"We've been singing together-- for about 12, 14 years," says Anne.

"Some people," Mark chimed in, "like to ride dirt bikes, we like to sing."

Both families had to pick the number they'd do in their face off from a list presented to them by the show. The musical genre of the songs on the list: show tunes, as determined last week by the spin of a wheel.

The Peays sang "Beautiful Things," from "Doctor Doolittle":

The Lorentzens performed "Out Here On My Own," from "Fame".

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After that clash, it was time to once again spin the wheel to determine the genre of music of the songs the Sledge Grits Band and J4 will perform next week. The wheel stopped on -- gospel.

The Early Show's "Singing Family Face Off" competition began last fall, when we asked viewers to send in tapes of their family bands performing original songs. We got a bunch of entries, and narrowed it down to six finalists.

Features reporter and weather anchor Dave Price went around the country, knocking on the doors of the six families who made it into the finals, surprising each one live on national TV!

The first clash of finalists came last Wednesday. Today, the Peays and Lorentzens competed. Next Wednesday, the remaining two finalist families, the Sledge Grits Band and J4.

In each face off, you'll get to vote for your favorite by clicking here.

The three bands who win their face offs will compete against each other for the right to go one-on-one in our grand finale three weeks from now. And the winning family will receive a CBS Records contract.

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