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Libianca from The Voice Season 21

The Voice returns to NBC on Monday, Sept. 20. Here’s more about Libianca.

* Her unusual name isn’t one she came up with. Her parents, she explains in a Rap Clout interview, couldn’t agree on what to name her. Her mother wanted to name her Bianca. Her father wanted to name her Liane. “They just could not come to an agreement, so they took the Li from Liane, slapped it on Bianca and Libianca.”

* Though born in the St. Paul, Minn., area, Libianca says in that interview that she grew up in her home country of Cameroon in west Africa. Her mother and siblings lived there; her dad was in the U.S. At age 13, she moved back to the U.S.

* Libianca says her singing inspiration came from her first baby-sitter when she was 6 or 7 years old. She had a lovely voice, Libianca recalls, and would sing Cameroonian gospel every day. “I admired her. I was like, ‘I want to sing too. I felt something every time she sang.”

* She says she started writing songs at age 10, sang in church and picked up the guitar around the same age.

* Libianca released her debut single, “Level,” in 2019 and followed up with two more — “Revenge” and “My Place” in 2020.

* She’s also released two singles so far this year, “Thank You” and “Special Lovin’.”

* The first, she says, is dedicated to her family — her mother, father, brother and sister. “I’ve always been the oversensitive, over-emotional one. All my experiences, they were there,” she says of her parents. “They were the constant that got me through it.”

* Of “Special Lovin’,” she writes on social media: “There’s more to African love than what meets the eye. Our unbearable traumas somehow become bearable once we meet the one who is willing to bear with us. It truly is a SPECIAL kind of love.” You can check out the track below.

* Libianca has also been featured on a number of tracks released by other artists, including YungM3tro, XROSS and Celena Lena.

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