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Mitchell Ferguson auditioned for Season 15 of The Voice.

Another of the Texans to audition for the show is Mitchell Ferguson, a 25-year-old who has already released lots of music and apparently has more on the way.

The Voice returns to NBC on Monday, Sept. 24. Here’s more about Mitchell.

* Mitchell got his start as frontman for a rock band called Louisiana Purchase, four guys from Texas rounded out by Micahel Ferguson, Chance Williams and Dawson Slaby.

* Between 2013 and 2015, they released three projects — “The Mysterious Incident of the Super Groovy Mojo,” “The Weekend Escobars” and “Biogaphies,” all of which are available on Bandcamp.

* The band described its sound as “a little undefinable, but it’s definitely rock.”

* But by 2015, Mitchell was embarking on a solo career in the singer-songwriter mold. In September of that year, he released the 12-song “In Search of Certainly.” Again, you can find the album on Bandcamp.

* Mitchell’s also done some acting. A combination of those gigs and touring led him to St. Louis, according to his website bio. That’s were he recorded his followup solo project, the six-song “Basement Statements,” released in late 2017.

* Why “Basement Statements?” Mitchell explains in his Facebook bio. “Most of these songs were written while I was going through an extremely humbling transitional period in my life. I had just graduated college and was living in my younger brother’s basement in St. Louis, trying to figure out who I was post grad/post relationship/’real world,'” he writes. “. I had a lot of high expectations and very close ‘almosts’ one after another that left me feeling discouraged. Way down. In a basement, if you will. I also realized I didn’t have anything that was truly mine other than my clothes, my guitars, and my songs. So I dove in. These songs came out of that basement. It’s about falling in love, falling out, making decisions, and moving on.”

* That was a busy year for Mitchell and his band. They logged more than 200 shows all across the U.S.

* Back in Dallas, Mitchell has recorded another batch of songs, his website bio says. The first was “Cry,” released in June. You can check it out below.

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