OK, I’m getting ticked at The Voice again. How do we not get a full introduction to Lelia Broussard? Her rendition of Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” is one of the best covers you’ll find from a singer on The Voice. (Check it out below.) She released a fine five-track EP, “Wolves Are at…
Alexis Marceaux is the Hurricane Katrina survivor we met on The Voice’s sixth blind audition episode. On the show, she explained that she and her family evacuated New Orleans a day or two before the hurricane hit. They thought they’d be returning soon. That didn’t happen. “It’s been seven years since the hurricane hit,” she…
Trevin Hunte is a teen with something to prove. The 18-year-old from Queens, N.Y., was in middle school when he had a chance to apply for a performing arts school.
At age 9, Adriana Louise used music to help her cope with the most traumatic experience of her life. A gang tried to rob her father’s store and wound up holding her family at gunpoint. To cope with her fear in the aftermath of the incident, Adriana told The Voice, she taught herself to sing…
I’m pretty sure Benji is the first former Formula race car driver who we’ve met on The Voice. The 24-year-old from Orlando explains that he’s always had a penchant for going fast. So when he had a chance to head to California to race after college, he couldn’t pass it up. The problem: “Racing is…
Collin McLoughlin, 24, of Bedford, N.Y., was the singer who upset his parents when he decided to drop out of grad school. He was attending NYU’s music business master’s program with the intent of working for a record label. Then he decided he’d rather be making music than working on the business side of the…
The Voice has featured duos before, but never a mother-daughter country duo. Enter 2Steel Girls, actually half of a family band that also includes the husband/father on drums and son/brother on guitar. But the gals — Allison Steel, 44, and Krystal Steel, 23 — were front and center on The Voice, hoping to finally get…
Michelle Brooks-Thompson offers a bonus to customers at the bank where she works full time. “I tell them, ‘If you open an account, I’ll sing a little tune for you,’” she told The Voice. Of course, she’s on The Voice because she’d prefer to do her singing on a stage, a much bigger stage. The…
