It was a Team Blake Shelton battle round showdown that lived up to its billing. Dustin Christensen squared off against Barrett Baber. Both had turned all four coaches’ chairs in the Season 9 blind auditions. For the battle round, they performed “Walking in Memphis,” and it turned out to be the week’s most popular…
Jordan Smith and Regina Love adopted a simple strategy heading into The Voice battle round. They wanted to make their performance so good that neither of them would go home. It’s an oft-adopted approach. But with only eight steals available, it fails much more often than it works. Jordan and Regina made it work. Jordan…
Mark Hood’s secret to battle round success: Being himself. Sounds simple, but it didn’t necessary come naturally for the 24-year-old from Chicago, one of The Voice’s most energetic and charismatic performers. For the battles, he was paired with Celeste Betton, a 27-year-old gospel singer from Hinesville, Ga. “Singing with a girl was different and,…
Ellie Lawrence’s blind audition on The Voice aired more than three weeks ago. And she’s still in the Top 25 on the iTunes’ alternative chart with her cover of “We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off.” But the 26-year-old indie-rock singer from Calhoun, Ga., says she still picked up valuable pointers during the…
Chris Crump turned four chairs during his blind audition for Season 9 of The Voice. But he still felt like a bit of an underdog heading into his Team Blake battle round match. A 31-year-old from Texas with a pop and Christian pop album under his belt, Chris was being asked to perform a…
Two male rockers squared off on The Voice Tuesday in what turned out to be one of the better battle round performances we’ve seen so far. Keith Semple, 33, of Chicago, Ill., advanced to the show’s knockout round. Manny Cabo, 45, of Elizabeth, N.J., headed home after he didn’t get a steal. But their…
College graduate Jeffery Austin’s first major performance since high school was his blind audition for Season 9 of The Voice. Then came the battle round, when he was asked The Weeknd’s “Can’t Feel My Face,” a song he says fell more into the wheelhouse of his battle round competitor, Noah Jackson. You might say…
Madi Davis just knew it was coming. The 16-year-old singer-songwriter from McKinney, Texas, landed a spot on Team Pharrell during the blind auditions for Season 9 of The Voice. Then Sydney Rhame, 16, of Atlanta, Ga., did the same. In fact, she landed the very final spot on Season 9. “I knew I was…
We got to see the showdown between male rockers Manny Cabo and Keith Semple Tuesday night on The Voice. We didn’t get to see the battle between female rockers Kota Wade, front woman for Bad Wolf, and Alex Kandel, former front woman for Sleeper Agent. And the very song they were given made for…
Chris Crump and Krista Hughes scored the biggest hit from Tuesday’s episode of The Voice on iTunes. As of noon, their cover of “When I Get Where I’m Going” was the only song from Tuesday’s show to crack the Top 200 on the site. The song was checking in at number 140 on the overall…
