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Her audition: Naomi Soleil, 18, Maplewood, N.J., “Stars” by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals: Displaying a unique tone and ample power behind it, young Naomi earned late chair turns from Adam Levine and Michael Buble. Adam liked her phrasing and loved her outfit. Michael said she has a cool and interesting voice. She decided to join Team Michael.

Here’s more about Naomi.

* She’s a 19-year-old singer-songwriter from New Jersey and attends the Berklee College of Music.

* She has lots of already released music, including a pair of EPs and an album.

* The album, “Breakfast for the Lions,” landed in 2022 and includes 10 songs. It’s a project Naomi said she’d been working on for a year and a half. One of the tracks, “Princess,” is a song Naomi wrote when she was just 13 years old.

* The EPS — “Ballad of the Doors” and “The Hawthorne Effect” — include another 10 songs combined and were released in 2023.

* Naomi describes her music as “alternative folk” and released at least one song, “Landmines,” as Naomi Stefens before changing her stage name.

* Naomi has more than 16,000 followers and more than 250,000 likes on TikTok.

* She announced her acceptance to Berklee in an October 2022 social media post, writing, “This has been The easiest, and most wonderful decision I’ve ever had the pleasure of making.”

* And while she hasn’t released music since 2023, she’s post several new originals to her social media accounts. Be sure to check out “The Middle Bird” below.

* Naomi’s also a photographer and has a separate Instagram account featuring some of her photos.

* Naomi hails from a musical family. In fact, her parents met when her mother placed a newspaper ad for a guitarist. They even released music together before Noami was born and performed in New York and L.A.

* As for Naomi, she started writing songs when she was 9 and released her first when she was just 12, according to her Voice bio.

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