Carson Daly has visited lots of places to deliver invites to the blind auditions on The Voice. Season 3’s seventh episode saw him make his first trip to a smog shop. He went there because that’s where Charlie Rey, 20, of Long Beach, Calif., works. He works there with his dad. In fact, he says…
In the spring, a former background singer trying to make it into the spotlight won Season 2 of The Voice. Now Amanda Brown is trying to follow in Jermaine Paul’s footsteps.
Nicole Johnson had Blake at “thang.” Now Blake has another strong country voice on his team on The Voice. Nicole is the 18-year-old Louisiana gal we met on the final blind audition episode. Her mother explains that Nicole showed musical ability at a young age, so Nicole’s parents bought her a guitar. By age 7,…
Caitlin Michele is another of The Voice contestants who has relied on music to get through some sort of difficulty in life. In her case, it was a case of extreme panic disorder. “When I have a panic attack, I stop breathing,” the 20-year-old from Boston told The Voice. “My heart starts beating fast. I usually…
Wondering how the American Idol auditions are going in Baton Rouge today after Mariah’s comments to Barbara Walters and Nicki Minaj’s Twitter tirade? The answer, apparently, is “very well.” Within the last hour (about 7:40 p.m. EST Friday), executive producer Nigel Lythgoe sent out photos via Twitter of both Mariah and Nicki smiling as they…
Sylvia Yacoub made it clear: She’s dedicating her performance on The Voice to her mother. You see, Sylvia was born in Egypt. That’s where her mother, who always loved singing, grew up.
If you fail once at making a team on The Voice, you shouldn’t hesitate to try again. Especially if you’re a guy on a show where aspiring female contestants outnumber the males.
The Voice seems to have gone a little younger this year, and there’s no better example of that than Nathalie Hernandez. The 15-year-old from Dunedin, Fla., told the show she started performing by doing recitals for children. She graduated to local talent competitions, including her hometown teen Idol contest and Largo Teen Idol, which she won…
Want a young singer who’s something of a throwback? Brandon Mahone, 17, of Indianapolis, might be your guy, judging on what we learned during the sixth audition episode of The Voice. The youngster said he was raised on the music of Smokey Robinson, The Temptations and Sam Cooke. “I am a more so classical young…
A doctor prescribed music for Joselyn Rivera when she was 5 years old. Apparently, it worked. On The Voice we learned that Joselyn, 17, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., was born premature and was in and out of hospitals when she was young. By the time she was 5, she was painfully shy and falling behind…
