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Susan Hickman of The Voice Season 27

Season 27 kicked off Monday with the coaching quarter of Michael Buble, Kelsea Ballerini, John Legend and Adam Levine.

Here’s more about Susan.

* She’s a Texas-based country artist with lots of music already released and lots of perfomance experience.

* Highlights of her music include a pair of albums — a 10-song, self-titled project in 2008 and an eight-song 2020 album called “Louder Than Words, Vol. 1.”

* Released as a single in 2019, “Rewind” from that album is her most popular on Spotify with more than 100,000 streams. Check out an excellent live performance of that song below.

* And she has a new song out called “Grit and Glory.” It’s a rousing collaboration with Jason Allen and Chip Oliphant to promote the 6666 Grit and Glory brewing products and dropped late last month.

* Writes Susan on social media: “We are super proud of this song celebrating the cowboy/cowgirl lifestyle and hope y’all feel the energy that we do when it comes through your speakers!”

* More original music might be on the way, thanks in part to an IndieGoGo campaign that’s raised more than $20,000 toward the cost of a new album. “I’ve written a great group of songs that I think y’all are really gonna like, and I can’t wait to share them with you,” Susan says in her campaign pitch.

* In her web bio, Susan says she started playing piano at age 5, then learned violin, but hit her 20s before teaching herself guitar and unlocking her songwriting potential in the process.

* In 2010, she made CMA Close-Up’s “Who’s New to Watch” list. In 2015, she was named the Texas CMA’s Female Vocalist of the Year. She says she’s shared the stage with Miranda Lambert, Lee Brice, Randy Rogers and many others.

* She’s been playing 200 shows a year and is already setting a blistering pace for 2025 with more than a dozen in January and many more on the books through early March.

* “Music has always been my compass, guiding me through life’s highs and lows,” Susan writes on one of her Instagram posts.

* And on YouTube, she writes that she’s “creating music for my kindred spirits: dreamers & doers destined for greatness, who have travelled shoes and old souls.”

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