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New post-Voice music out includes singles from Todd Kessler, Dominic Haynes and the duo Elenownen.

Here’s a bit about each of those releases.

The links take you to the songs on Apple Music.

* Todd Kessler from Season 3 released “Chasing Love” on Thursday and it features a special guest vocalist, Althea Grace, the young mom who impressed the judges on the Season 19 of American Idol. Todd wrote the song with Kevin Andrew Prchal and says it’s about “the tendency we all have to seek out more when most of the time what we’re looking for has been right there in front of us all along.”

* Dominic Haynes from Season 16 released “Sabotage” this week. It follows “Crazy” as his second single of 2021 and his fourth since appearing on the show. Writes Dominic: “This is one of the most vulnerable moments I’ve ever experienced in my musical expression, all of me is in it. It’s the first time I’ve truly felt, seen and acknowledged by myself in the way I’ve longed to my entire life.”

* Elenowen, the duo of Josh and Nicole Johnson from Season 1, dropped “Believer” on Friday. It’s their fourth release since April. Josh says he wrote the song in 2019 with Mark W. Campbell “in a time when our world was filled with anxiety & uncertainty (little did we know it was only going to get worse in 2020). Both Nicole & I were growing, changing & evolving not only in our marriage, but as individuals. This song was the reassurance that in the midst of it all, I’d be there for it no matter what.”