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New post-Voice music out includes singles from three artists we met in the show’s early days — Xenia, Charlotte Sometimes (now LACES) and Charlie Rey.

Here’s a bit about each of those releases.

The links take you to the songs on Apple Music. Or you can check out the Spotify snippets below.

* Xenia, Top 8 in Season 1, released a haunting song called “Outsider” on Friday. She calls the song “my testimony” of a path toward salvation. “I wrote it about realizing that you’re living a lie… And you try to hide and cover up your sin in hopes that no one will notice and see who you really are. You are scared that if you share the truth about yourself no one will love you.” Read more on her Instagram page. Oh, and it appears Xenia, just 16 when she appeared on The Voice, recently got engaged. Congrats!

* LACES, aka Charlotte Sometimes from Season 2, released “Worship” on Friday. The single is her first of 2020 and two versions are available, one stripped down, one fully produced. “When I wrote ‘Worship’ it started out as an experiment to see if I can still write alone,” she says. “Quarantine forced this creative isolation after I got so used to being in a collaborative environment. I forgot I still had the tools and a story that I was capable of exploring on my own. Our longest relationship is with ourselves, but we often get lost in someone else’s narrative.”

* Charlie Rey from Season 3 has released a catchy Christian pop song called “Ready to Go.” He says it’s a song he worked on with Josh Bronleewe and Benji Cowart. “It’s ok not to have all the answers, because God does. I’m good with that,” Charlie writes on social media. “Ready to Go” follows “Day After Forever” as the second single of 2020 from Charlie.