Janice Freeman says she’s battled health issues for as long as she can remember. When she was very young, she was diagnosed with a kidney infection. In ninth grade, she had meningitis. In 2007, she was diagnosed with Lupus. At one point, when she was a young child, doctors told her mother she had about…
Dave Crosby is about to become the first contestant on The Voice who sings in the shadow of his very young daughter. Back around Christmas of 2015, when Claire Ryann Crosby was just 3, Dave made a video of her singing “Part of Your World” from The Little Mermaid. You might say it went viral….
Haley Reinhart dropped the fourth track — and the first original — from her upcoming album Friday. The song is called “Let’s Start” and it’s accompanied by a music video with a definite 1960s vibe. Which fits, of course, because Haley’s album “What’s That Sound” — due out Sept. 22 — is a tribute…
Shilo Gold’s reasoning for auditioning for The Voice Season 13 is simple enough. “After years of asking ‘why not?’ — I did,” she wrote on Instagram earlier this week, announcing her participation on the show. The blues-soul singer-songwriter hails from Denver, Colo., and has lots of music you can already check out — an EP…
When Meagan McNeal says her original music is an eclectic mix of genres, she’s being totally honest. Her 2014 debut album “Mindset” includes the jazzy “Rainwalk,” a sassy cover of “Summertime” and a rap song called “Believin’.” Now Meagan will be taking that musical diversity to Season 13 of The Voice. According to her Facebook…
Here’s a claim Maharasyi Hansa can make that I guarantee no other Voice contestant has ever made. She was an actress in one of the first commercial films ever made in the nation of Brunei, a small oil-rich nation surrounded by Malaysia on the island of Borneo in the South China Sea. Maharasyi played the…
On The Voice, we hear many parents talk about how their children have been singing since they could talk. That’s not the story of Ryan Scripps. Oh, he got involved in music at a young age. But singing didn’t come until much later. On his website and Facebook bios, Ryan explains how he started playing…
A female rocker has never won The Voice. Could Moriah Formica become the first? Just a teenager, Moriah released a debut EP at age 16 and has followed it up with a trio of singles. She’s performed with the rock band Stryper and sings a duet with Stryper frontman Michael Sweet on his latest solo…
Shi’Ann Jones made it to the finals of a competition The Voice held last fall. And you probably never heard about it. In the summer of 2016, The Voice launched its first Snapchat competition. Singers were invited to send Snapchat clips of themselves performing. Then each of the Season 11 coaches — Alicia Keys, Miley…
Adam Pearce auditioned for Season 12 of The Voice, singing Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale.” No coaches turned, despite an impressive performance-ending glory note. That might be good news for Adam, because The Voice has a history of singers who don’t make the show one season, then return and do very, very well…
