Brynn Cartelli became the first-ever member of Team Kelly Clarkson during the Season 14 blind auditions for The Voice. Just 14 at the time, she performed “Beneath Your Beautiful,” turning the chairs of Kelly and Blake Shelton. And while she later said Blake made some great points in his “join-Team-Blake” pitch, she just had to…
Kyla Jade spent nine years touring with and performing with the Bobby Jones Gospel show. She’s done studio work with Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle and many others. She toured as a background singer with Wynonna Judd and has spent the last three years singing background for Voice coach Jennifer Hudson. She auditioned for The Voice…
At age 12, Spensha Baker made it to the finals of CBS’s Star Search and signed a record deal. She wound up becoming a child star in gospel music. But her star eventually faded. And when attempts to revive her career in Nashville seemed to be “going in circles and never really getting anywhere,” she…
The long-awaited debut album from Trent Harmon is drawing rave reviews from fans and making a solid showing on the iTunes charts. “You Got ‘Em All” landed at midnight Thursday, a full two years after Trent was named the Season 15 winner of American Idol. Twelve hours after that release, the album was sitting at…
Overnight voting will return to American Idol Sunday night as fans select a Season 16 winner. That’s just one of the details, ABC revealed late Friday afternoon about Sunday’s show. The show also released the list of songs that will be performed that evening. They include an original song (those were released to iTunes and…
We already knew Chloe Kohanski will be performing a new single at The Voice Season 14 finale. Today, The Voice announced the rest of a “superstar” lineup. Which — no surprise here — doesn’t include a single other past contestant. Per The Voice press release … “Superstar recording artists Jason Aldean, James Bay, Florence +…
It’s new music Friday, but here’s some new music you probably didn’t expect. At least not yet. In conjunction with Hollywood Records, American Idol has already released the new singles the Season 16 finalists will be performing Sunday night. That includes a ballad called “Johnny Cash Heart” for Caleb Lee Hutchinson, a rollicking country tune…
Caleb Lee Hutchinson started singing when he was 9, playing guitar when he was 12 and writing songs when he was 13. And just last year, he won the Country Teen Showcase in his home state of Georgia. Sunday night, he’ll be going for a much grander prize — being named the Season 16 American…
Gabby Barrett says she started dreaming of being on American Idol as a young girl, when she watched Carrie Underwood win Season 4. Now, a week after singing with her idol on the Idol stage, she’s one step away from following in Carrie’s footsteps. She’ll compete Sunday night against Maddie Poppe and Caleb Lee Hutchinson…
Maddie Poppe says she caught the singing bug when she was 6 years old and her sister talked her into performing a duet in school. The song they sang was “Landslide.” It was a song Maddie performed during her homecoming concert on Tuesday. And it will be her hometown dedication song Sunday night. That evening,…
