The Season 9 cast on The Voice was one of the show’s youngest ever with 11 singers under 18 advancing from the blind auditions. Now only one remains: Emily Ann Roberts, 17, who will represent Team Blake in The Voice finals this week. The young woman from Knoxville, Tenn., auditioned with Lee Ann Womack’s “I…
Only one coach turned when Jeffery Austin auditioned for The Voice with Sam Smith’s “Lay Me Down.” But in Jeffery’s words, it was “the right chair” as he joined Team Gwen. A little more than two months later, he’ll be representing Team Gwen in the Season 9 finals, trying to make Gwen Stefani the first…
Barrett Baber was the very last singer we met on The Voice’s Season 9 premiere. The high school teacher from Fayetteville, Ark., turned all four coaches’ chairs with his performance of “Angel Eyes” by the Jeff Healey Band. In what he calls a “no-brainer,” the country singer opted to join Team Blake. Now he’ll be…
For the first time in Season 9, we should be treated to multiple songs by each contestant in Monday night’s performance finale on The Voice. If the show doesn’t deviate from its past format — and I haven’t seen any announcement that it will — each member of the Top 4 will perform two…
The Voice performance finale is set for Monday night, so it’s time to take a final look at the social media stats for the four finalists. They’d seem to point to what we all expect: a Jordan Smith victory. Jordan remains the most popular Voice contestant on Twitter and Facebook and the second most popular…
The Voice eliminated five contestants in one night this week. And that includes four of the five teenagers still in the competition. But we haven’t heard the last from Braiden Sunshine, Shelby Brown, Madi Davis, Zach Seabaugh or Amy Vachal. They made that clear during a conference call with the media earlier this week. Here’s…
Season 8 American Idol winner Kris Allen will be heading out on tour in the spring. And he’ll be doing it to support a new album he plans to release, according to a Facebook post from earlier this week. Tickets for the tour went on sale today. The tour includes a stop at The Hamilton…
Archuleta has released a cover of “The Prayer” with fellow vocalist Nathan Pacheco. And you might say the Christmas song is being very well received. This morning, a day after its release, the song was number three on iTunes Holiday songs chart. “Christmas is always a time that gets me to constantly look upward,” David…
Every three months or so, I search iTunes for releases from artists who previously appeared on The Voice that I might have missed. And, occasionally, I stumble across a real gem. That was the case earlier this month when I learned that Angela Wolff had released an EP called “Surrender and Release.” Angela was 25…
Asking The Voice contestants who they think will win the show is typically an exercise in futility. The answers are almost always as diplomatic as possible, with the interviewee praising everyone’s talent and giving everyone an even shot at winning. When asked the question during a Wednesday conference call with the media, Braiden Sunshine was…
