Meet Dez Duron of Team Christina on The Voice
If you fail once at making a team on The Voice, you shouldn’t hesitate to try again. Especially if you’re a guy on a show where aspiring female contestants outnumber the males.
If you fail once at making a team on The Voice, you shouldn’t hesitate to try again. Especially if you’re a guy on a show where aspiring female contestants outnumber the males.
The Voice seems to have gone a little younger this year, and there’s no better example of that than Nathalie Hernandez. The 15-year-old from Dunedin, Fla., told the show she started performing by doing recitals for children. She graduated to local talent competitions, including her hometown teen Idol contest and Largo Teen Idol, which she won…
Want a young singer who’s something of a throwback? Brandon Mahone, 17, of Indianapolis, might be your guy, judging on what we learned during the sixth audition episode of The Voice. The youngster said he was raised on the music of Smokey Robinson, The Temptations and Sam Cooke. “I am a more so classical young…
A doctor prescribed music for Joselyn Rivera when she was 5 years old. Apparently, it worked. On The Voice we learned that Joselyn, 17, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., was born premature and was in and out of hospitals when she was young. By the time she was 5, she was painfully shy and falling behind…
Suzanna Choffel has been a music teacher in Austin and Brooklyn and told The Voice that’s how she makes her living. And she clearly enjoys what she does. “Sometimes you have a really shy kid. By the third lesson, you’ll see something beautiful coming from them and they become more outgoing,” she tells The Voice….
Sam James is one of at least three contestants who tried out for Season 2 of The Voice and failed to make it, then returned for Season 3 and did. Unfortunately, we saw only a tiny snippet of his audition. Especially unfortunate since he sang John Lennon’s “Imagine” and the song performed well on iTunes…
Hey, it’s still early October, but why not start thinking about Christmas, especially in you’re a Scotty McCreery fan. Scotty has a Christmas album coming out Oct. 16, and pre-orders are being taken now. Scotty tweeted about the album this afternoon, thanking fans for making his post-Idol debut go platinum in a matter of weeks….
The Voice struck gold with a judging panel that manages to tease one another and still get along. Well, except for that short-lived little fuss over a Tony Lucca song last year. American Idol seems to be taking the opposite approach. At this point, who needs contestants? Just let Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey battle…
Ready for a new single from Kelly Clarkson? Well, the original Idol just announced she’ll be releasing one next week called “Catch My Breath.” And if you’re not familiar with the tune from her “Stronger” album, there’s a good reason. This single will be on Kelly’s upcoming greatest hits disc, to be released in November….
Nelly’s Echo has one of the more interesting backstories among contestants on The Voice. Nelson said his family fled Nigeria when he was a teenager because of political unrest; his father was even imprisioned for something he didn’t do. With just two suitcases, his mother, his three brothers and Nelson settled in Baltimore. But Nelson…
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