Carvena Jones from Jackson, Mississippi, describes herself as a soulful singer. “Everything is from the heart and heartfelt,” she says in a video clip promoting FOX’s “The Four.” “So like a Picaoso or Michelangelo, I definitely put everything into my art.” Carvena told the Jackson Free Press that she comes from a family of singers,…
Video of the Year honors at the CMT Music Awards Wednesday night went to Voice coach Blake Shelton. Blake won the night’s biggest award for the music video to “I’ll Name the Dogs.” That video also earned him Male Video of the Year honors. But he wasn’t the only winner with singing show connections. Carrie…
American Idol’s Season 17 audition schedule it out. And perhaps the most interesting tidbit is the fact that anyone within the age range is eligible but the Top 10 finishers from the first season of Idol on ABC. That means young powerhouse singers like Mara Justine and Alyssa Raghu could potentially return to compete again…
Chris Daughtry has announced that his band’s new album will be called “Cage to Rattle” and will be released July 27. In fact, pre-orders just began on iTunes and through the Daughtry website. Anyone who pre-orders on either site gets an immediate download of the band’s new single, “Deep End,” which you can check…
So, are you suffering from singing show withdrawal with American Idol and The Voice off the air? If so, FOX thinks it has the answer. The Four — complete with all those chants of “eat, eat, eat” — returns for a second season Thursday night at 8 p.m. If you missed Season 1, here’s…
The Four returns for a second season Thursday night on FOX. Season 2’s original four will include Sharaya J., James Graham, Carvena Jones and Stephanie Zelaya. That means a female hip-hop artists, a pop hunk imported from across the ocean, a soulful singer and a pop cutie. If the makeup sounds familiar … well, yep,…
Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson and Blake Shelton will be among the performers at the CMT Music Awards Wednesday night in Nashville. The awards show begins at 8 p.m. on CMT and Carrie — already the all-time leader with 17 CMT awards — is nominated for four more honors this year. The prize of the night…
Paul McDonald’s new album, “Modern Hearts,” landed Friday, and the former American Idol standout celebrated with a Saturday night album release show in Nashville. He could have also celebrated a respectable showing on iTunes. Forty-eight hours after its release, “Modern Hearts” was still number 30 on the site’s singer-songwriter chart. “It took me a few…
Wé McDonald, a Season 11 standout on The Voice, is now a published author and the artist behind a new single. Now 19, Wé released a song called “Head Up High” last month. The song’s empowerment theme goes hand-in-hand with her new children’s book, “The Little Girl with a Big Voice,” which encourages children to…
Though she made it all the way to the knockout round, we barely met Jamella on Season 14 of The Voice because two of her three performances was montaged. But the young woman from Mission Viejo, Calif., is determined to make a name for herself in music, beginning with the catchy new pop/R&B single she…
