Idol Chatter & Voice Views

Her audition: Zan Fiskum, 22, Seattle, Wash., auditioned with “Light On” by Maggie Rogers. Zan’s ethereal opening prompted an almost immediate chair turn from Nick Jonas. John Legend soon followed. A big note later prompted a chair turn from Kelly Clarkson as well. John said she sounded angelic. Nick said her performance left him “speechless.” Kelly praised her unique vocal tone and said she sounds “magical.” Zan joined Team Legend.

Here’s more about Zan.

* Zan is short of Suzannah, and she’s a Seattle-based Christian and indie folk artist.

* In her Facebook bio, Zan says she grew up in a musical family.

* At age 12, she joined her church’s worship team and, in the words of that bio, “discovered a lifelong passion for music.”

* She ventured into songwriting as well and began collaborating with fellow musician Alec Shaw when she was 16.

* They wrote music for his alternative rock band, with Zan contributing to his 2017 album “Car Town” (she has a featured vocal on “Someday”) and his 2017 album “Uh Oh and the Oh Wells.”

* In fact, that’s the band she referred to on the show. Zan says she plays synth and sings backup. “It’s a soulful approach to indie pop,” she told Voice Views. “The band is like my family, we play together and hang together a bunch.”

* Zan also has released a series of six Christian singles since 2018, including “Made to Worship” and “Because He Lives” in 2019. You can check out the latter — her latest release — below.

* According to her web bio, he’s working on a full-length indie pop / folk record called “Sleeping Problems.” She told Voice Views she hopes to release it later this year. “It’s definitely a different theme from my Christian stuff I’ve released. It’ll be a synthy indie pop/folk record, and I’m really excited about it. A lot of the songs almost have a cinematic feel to them. I’m calling it Sleeping Problems because I had trouble sleeping for a while from all that I was going through, and it ended up getting mentioned here and there in the songs across the album.”

* At the time her Facebook bio was written, she was serving on the staff as a worship pastor at New Life Church.

* Oh, and as she explained in her Voice bio segment, she lives in a “tiny home,” an RV on her parent’s property.

See also …
Zan Fiskum talks about her blind audition on The Voice

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