Jordy Searcy found the singer-songwriter sweet spot when he released “Dark in the City” back in February. The seven-track album includes six songs the Season 7 contestant wrote, plus a spoken word piece, “Colorblind Christianity” by Dajanae Cole. And while the songs are a treat to the ears, they’re even more powerful because Jordy doesn’t…
Jordan Smith proved he could slay cover songs en route to victory on Season 9 of The Voice. So when Republic Records rush released his debut album just three months later with covers like “Amazing Grace,” “Over the Rainbow” and “You Are So Beautiful,” it seemed like more of the same, though the album became…
We met the 2Steel Girls on Season 3 of The Voice back in 2012. Six years later, Allison and Krystal Steel are still the only mother-daughter duo ever to make The Voice. And they’re still making music together. In fact, they released their most impressive project yet in 2018, “The Real Thing,” an 11-song album…
If you’re looking for a classic country album, you can’t do much better than the one Red Marlow released just four months after finishing fourth on Season 13 of The Voice. It’s called “Country as Cornbread,” and it’s a fitting title. Red serves up what you’d expect on a country album, including a song about…
Wé McDonald, the third-place finisher on Season 11 of The Voice, released her debut single in May. It’s an anthem of self-acceptance and perseverance called “Head Up High.” And it’s a song Wé wrote with fellow contestant Kylie Rothfield during their time on the show. “We were fed up with all these expectations and societal…
Riley Biederer teamed up with EDM DJ and producer Frank Walker for the incredibly catchy “Heartbreak Back,” released in August. She also co-wrote the tune and, in an interview with ION Magazine, said the song actually came together “really, really fast.” “I’ve written hundreds of songs over the years and I think, stylistically, they’ve all…
Since competing on Season 2 of The Voice at age 17, RaeLynn has become one of the most distinct female voices in country music. And after her successful 2017 album “WildHorse,” she hit the country-pop sweet spot in 2018 with her single “Queens Don’t.” Racheal Lynn Davis — RaeLynn’s real married name — wrote the…
Natalie Stovall said she heard a demo of “Making Out in Cars” years ago and “immediately fell into a love trance with it.” The song was written by Natalie Hemby, Barry Dean and Troy Verges. “I’ve wanted to record it for so long and am so proud to have finally put it out into the…
Matt McAndrew was supposed to be spending much of 2018 in Las Vegas, playing shows with the likes of Allison Porter and Chris Mann as part of Neon Dreams, the new Voice in Vegas show. Plans for that show fell through. But judging from his social media accounts, Matt managed to pack plenty of live…
In the box office hit “The Greatest Showman,” Rebecca Ferguson plays Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, a renowned singer who falls for P.T. Barnum. But when it came time to record the soundtrack for the film, Rebecca decided she wasn’t quite up to delivering an operatic quality performance. So that task fell to Loren Allred,…
