25 | September | 2012 | Idol Chatter & Voice Views

Season 3, The Voice
Meet Jordan Pruitt of Team Christina on The Voice

September 25, 2012 By Mark Franklin 2

If you followed Disney a few years back, this might amount to a reintroduction rather than an introduction to a Voice contestant. Jordan Pruitt, a former teen star, signed with Disney (Hollywood Records) at age 14. She released two albums; she scored two hit singles. She told The Voice she toured with The Cheetah Girls…
Devyn DeLoera, Season 3, The Voice
Meet Devyn DeLoera of Team Christina on The Voice

September 25, 2012 By Mark Franklin 2

Considering her killer opening note and the sassy shoulder shake at the start of her blind audition, it’s tough to believe Devyn DeLoera was ever shy. But the 20-year-old from Snyder, Texas, says she was, painfully so, growing up. Other kids were into sports while she was the artistic type, she told The Voice. As…
Mycle Wastman, Season 3, The Voice
Meet Mycle Wastman of Team Cee Lo on The Voice

September 25, 2012 By Mark Franklin 6

Mycle Wastman lost both of his parents at a young age, his father to bone cancer and his mother to a respiratory disorder. As a result, he was raised by his grandfather, who passed away a week and a half before his audition on The Voice. Those losses sent a message to Mycle, 40, of…
Aquile, Season 3, The Voice
Meet Aquile of Team Christina on The Voice

September 25, 2012 By Mark Franklin 4

Aquile, 24, of San Diego, told The Voice about the challenges he’s faced in life. He grew up in the small town of Douglas, Wyoming, in a mostly white community. He’s biracial. “A lot of people loved me. There were also people who had their own opinions of me without really knowing me,” he says,…
MacKenzie Bourg, Season 3, The Voice
Meet MacKenzie Bourg of Team Cee Lo on The Voice

September 25, 2012 By Mark Franklin 2

MacKenzie Bourg, 19, of Lafayette, La., decided to try out for The Voice shortly after recovering from a serious illness. About two years ago, he began having bad headaches. Shortly thereafter, he was diagnosed as having a virus that was shutting down all his organs and leading to congestive heart failure. He was placed in…
Season 3, The Voice
Meet Casey Muessigmann of Team Blake on The Voice

September 25, 2012 By Mark Franklin 2

You hear Casey tell you his last name is pronounced “music man,” and you figure it must be a gimmick. It isn’t; it’s his real last name. “I can’t take credit for it,” Casey Muessigmann, 22, of Preston, Iowa, says. “My parents gave it to me.” Growing up, Casey tells The Voice he had two…
Ben Taub, Season 3, The Voice
Meet Ben Taub of Team Cee Lo Green on The Voice

September 25, 2012 By Mark Franklin 2

Ben Taub had one main reason for trying out for Season 3 of The Voice. And it had everything to do with his favorite singer. “I thought the idea of having Cee Lo Green have no choice but to listen to me for a minute and a half was such a strange and appealing experience,”…
Julio Cesar Castillo, Season 3, The Voice
Meet Julio Castillo of Team Blake on The Voice

September 25, 2012 By Mark Franklin 2

We’ve seen several firsts on The Voice already in Season 3. One was provided by Julio Cesar Castillo in the second blind audition episode when he sang an entire song in Spanish. Julio, now 21 and from Chicago, says he started singing at age 3 but fell in love with Mariachi music at age 6….

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