Dakota Cohen from The Voice Season 30
The Voice returns to NBC on Monday, Sept. 21 with the coaching quartet of Kelly Clarkson, Adam Levine, Queen Latifah and Riley Green.
Here’s more about Dakota:
* She’s a female rocker / pop artist in her early 20s from L.A. with lots of music already released.
* Dakota released a very catchy single called “E-V-I-L” about fishnets, black boots and girl power in August. And on Friday, she dropped the excellent “Thank You for the Party Favor,” writing “very excited to add a little darkness to your fall.”
* And those came on the heels of a single called “So LA” and a five-song EP called “For Display Only” from earlier this year.
* In interviews, Dakota says she knew she wanted to play music and be on stage from a young age, asking her mother for drum lessons after watching a band thrill at audience at an outdoor mall when she was 9.
* She wound up learning to play drums. Plus guitar, keys, ukulele and bass. She spent eight years as a student at the School of Rock in West L.A. and began writing her own music at age 15.
* Dakota has also attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston as a double major and won the college’s Best Songwriter Award.
* She describes the music she writes as “very fun, easy to listen to, empowering, and very, very danceable!”
* Back in 2019, Dakota auditioned for Season 17 of American Idol. She made it all the way to the Top 40 before being eliminated. But I’m not sure any of her performances aired on the show.
* She began releasing her own music — some as simply Dakota — the same year and dropped her debut EP — “Die on the Hill” — in 2025. She’s also already released seven music videos showcasing her vibrant personality. Check out “So L.A.” below.
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