Moushumi, a Top 20 contestant from Season 10, is working on her first post-Voice album. And she’s launched a KickStarter campaign with hopes of releasing that album later this year. With four days to go in the campaign, she’s nearing her goal of raising $10,000. As for 2 p.m. Saturday, pledges totaled nearly $8,700. Based…
The only mother-daughter duo ever to appear on The Voice released a fun new single Friday. It’s a female empowerment tune called “Queen Bee” that has all the sass of some of the previous releases from 2Steel Girls. But it also has more blues and a little less country twang. “We are country folks,” Allison…
The duo known as Plake released a new single called “Cold Vibes” on Friday. On it, former Voice standout Hunter Plake proclaims he’s got better things to do than waste his time with a woman giving him nothing but cold vibes. This marks the second official single from Hunter and brother Dakota since Hunter finished…
Over the past few days, I’ve been posting blogs about singers rumored to have made it onto Season 14 of The Voice. There were several singers for whom I couldn’t find much background information, at least not enough to do a separate blog. Below is a bit about five of those contestants — DR King,…
His audition: Johnny Bliss, 26, of New York, N.Y., performed “Preciosa” by Marc Anthony, delivering the entire song in Spanish. Adam Levine turned within the first few notes, eventually followed by all the other coaches. But Adam blocked Kelly Clarkson, meaning Johnny couldn’t choose her. He decided to join Team Alicia Keys. His background: Johnny…
Her audition: Spensha Baker, 24, of San Antonio, Texas, auditioned with a stripped down version of “Blackbird” by The Beatles. She got chair turns from Blake Shelton and Kelly Clarkson midway through the performance and decided to join Team Blake. Her background: Spensha grew up in church singing gospel music. At age 11, she signed…
Her audition: Mia Boostrom, 24, of Boston, Mass., performed “Pillowtalk” by Zayn Malik. Adam Levine turned when Mia’s voice soared near the end of the song. He was the only coach to turn, but that earned Mia a spot on the show. Her background: When she was about 4, Mia’s dad bought a piano for…
His audition: Dylan Hartigan, 21, Wyckoff, N.J., performed “Danny’s Song” by Loggins and Messina. He was nearly to the end of the performance when Kelly Clarkson turned her chair. That meant Dylan automatically became a member of Team Kelly, an outcome that had him all smiles. His background: A former child actor, at age 6…
A 2015 show at Webster Hall in New York yielded unexpected results for former American Idol standout Sam Woolf. That night he met Long Island singer-songwriters the Como Brothers — Matt and Andrew. Soon, they were hanging out together after shows. Eventually, they began writing songs together as well. They released their first single, the…
The bold new single from Halo Circus now has a bold new video to match. Earlier this month, Allison Iraheta and husband Matthew Hager released the song “Narcissist,” which pokes fun at a society where so many people seem determined to draw attention to themselves on social media. In the music video, released over the…
