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New post-Voice music out includes songs from Katrina Cain, Delaney and Durel Anthony.

Here’s a bit more about each of those releases. The links take you to the songs on Apple Music.

Katrina Cain from The Voice Season 15

* Katrina Cain from Season 15 has a great new single out called “Independence Day.” She also wrote the song, her first release of 2022. Says Katrina: “Sometimes we change ourselves to fit in, and when you take a step back and look at yourself, you realize that all of that constant effort to change is not only exhausting, but totally unsustainable. I wanted to find a way to describe the beautiful side of falling apart, so I wrote this song about freeing yourself — from someone, something, or even some place. It’s about walking away from a burning pile of ashes as a totally new person, who belongs to yourself alone.”

Delaney from The Voice Season 15

* Delaney, who competed on Season 15 as Delaney Silvernell, released a live version of her original song “Same Damn Thing” on Friday. The song was the title track on a five-song EP Delaney released last September. The live version was recorded at the Hotel Cafe last month. “This performance felt a lot like coming home. It had been over two years since I performed any of my original music live (throw in the wrench of a global pandemic paired with my own tendency to talk myself out of things). It wasn’t perfect. It wasn’t my technically-best-ever performance. But I’m proud of it and I want you to hear me from where I’m at.”

Durel Anthony from The Voice Season 20

* Durell Anthony from Season 20 has released “She Doesn’t Know.” It’s a song he co-wrote with Jordan Childs, who also produced the track. Durell says he started writing songs at 14. “It’s taken me 20-plus years to find my voice/sound and I’m finally at a place now where everything I’m creating is honest, authentic and I love it … And if I do my job as an artist and create honestly, then I know someone else has to connect with the music too.” It follows “Be With You” and “Speechless.”