Idol Chatter & Voice Views

His audition: Cade Mower, 35, Bluffdale, Utah, “Something in the Orange” by Zach Bryan: Cade’s impressive tone and rasp prompted four chair turns before he finished the second line of the song. Adam Levine led the way. There’s certainly an impressive ache in Cade’s voice. Adam said he thinks Cade is “amazing.” Queen Latifah said his performance made her start making ugly faces. In a good way, of course. She said Cade could win The Voice. Riley Green put his cowboy hat on his head to make his pitch. He said he could tell Cade was a songwriter from his approach to the performance. Kelly Clarkson reminded Cade she knows how to navigate a singing competition. Cade decided to join Team Riley Green. (Watch his audition below)

Here’s more about Cade:

* He’s a country artist from Bluffdale, Utah, now based in Nashville with lots of music already released.

* In online bios, he describes his music as a mix of blues, southern rock, county and soul with influences that range from Merle Haggard and Eric Clapton to Led Zeppelin.

* That released music includes an EP called “Firehouse Sessions Live” from 2024, a 12-song 2025 album called “Soul Work” plus a handful of singles.

* His most popular song on Spotify to date, with more than 300,000 streams, is his cover of Whiskey Myers’ “Broken Window Serenade” from the 2024 EP.

* But he’s also received praise for an original called “Moroni,” about the area where he grew up. An acoustic version of the song that dropped in 2024 has more than 50,000 streams on Spotify.

* Cade released a new studio version this year after a video for the song got more than 400,000 hits. “Same story. Same heart. Just brought to life the way I always imagined it,” he writes on Instagram. Check it out below.

* He followed up with a second impressive single for 2026, a song called “Blissful Misery.” Writes Cade: “If you’ve ever felt like you’ve never lived up to your full potential, you might relate to this one!”

* Cade says he got hooked on music around age 12, when he first picked up guitar. He’s also spent time performing in the Austin area. He’s been Nashville based for about three years, according to an interview he did with Provo Music Magazine earlier this year.

* “If you want to make it in this town,” he told the site, “you’ve gotta earn the respect of the people that have been grinding it out here for years. The only way to do that, as far as I can tell, is grind it out yourself. Get in the trenches and put in the work.”

* Cade is married with two young children.

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