Ignatious Carmouche is The Voice champion you’ve never heard of. But that might change in Season 13. Ignatious, from Opelousas, La., won the second Voice Snapchat competition last spring, an impressive feat considering the odds. According to The Voice, 20,000 people sent in Snapchat auditions. Each of the four coaches got to select four singers…
The Voice Season 13 cast will feature another talented singer who hails from the Philippines. Her name is Kathrina Feigh Aranas — just Kathrina Feigh as a stage name — and she’s been singing since age 3, according to the bio on her website. She also arrived at The Voice with extensive experience in musical…
Reagan James dropped a new mixtape Friday, and she’s understandably proud of the project. The mixtape is called “Honey,” a five-track offering from the young lady who cracked the Top 10 on Season 7 of The Voice at age 15. Reagan calls “Honey” “the most eclectic, soulful, colorful group of songs I’ve ever written.” “This…
If ever a Voice contestant seemed destined for Team Blake Shelton, it’s Red Marlow. He’s a country music artist who’s been performing around Nashville and working toward his big break for some time now. On allmusic.com, his credits date back to 2002. And remember what Blake Shelton did with veteran musicians like Craig Wayne Boyd…
Janice Freeman says she’s battled health issues for as long as she can remember. When she was very young, she was diagnosed with a kidney infection. In ninth grade, she had meningitis. In 2007, she was diagnosed with Lupus. At one point, when she was a young child, doctors told her mother she had about…
Dave Crosby is about to become the first contestant on The Voice who sings in the shadow of his very young daughter. Back around Christmas of 2015, when Claire Ryann Crosby was just 3, Dave made a video of her singing “Part of Your World” from The Little Mermaid. You might say it went viral….
Haley Reinhart dropped the fourth track — and the first original — from her upcoming album Friday. The song is called “Let’s Start” and it’s accompanied by a music video with a definite 1960s vibe. Which fits, of course, because Haley’s album “What’s That Sound” — due out Sept. 22 — is a tribute…
Shilo Gold’s reasoning for auditioning for The Voice Season 13 is simple enough. “After years of asking ‘why not?’ — I did,” she wrote on Instagram earlier this week, announcing her participation on the show. The blues-soul singer-songwriter hails from Denver, Colo., and has lots of music you can already check out — an EP…
When Meagan McNeal says her original music is an eclectic mix of genres, she’s being totally honest. Her 2014 debut album “Mindset” includes the jazzy “Rainwalk,” a sassy cover of “Summertime” and a rap song called “Believin’.” Now Meagan will be taking that musical diversity to Season 13 of The Voice. According to her Facebook…
Here’s a claim Maharasyi Hansa can make that I guarantee no other Voice contestant has ever made. She was an actress in one of the first commercial films ever made in the nation of Brunei, a small oil-rich nation surrounded by Malaysia on the island of Borneo in the South China Sea. Maharasyi played the…
