Alexis Marceaux is the Hurricane Katrina survivor we met on The Voice’s sixth blind audition episode. On the show, she explained that she and her family evacuated New Orleans a day or two before the hurricane hit. They thought they’d be returning soon. That didn’t happen. “It’s been seven years since the hurricane hit,” she…
Trevin Hunte is a teen with something to prove. The 18-year-old from Queens, N.Y., was in middle school when he had a chance to apply for a performing arts school.
At age 9, Adriana Louise used music to help her cope with the most traumatic experience of her life. A gang tried to rob her father’s store and wound up holding her family at gunpoint. To cope with her fear in the aftermath of the incident, Adriana told The Voice, she taught herself to sing…
I’m pretty sure Benji is the first former Formula race car driver who we’ve met on The Voice. The 24-year-old from Orlando explains that he’s always had a penchant for going fast. So when he had a chance to head to California to race after college, he couldn’t pass it up. The problem: “Racing is…
Collin McLoughlin, 24, of Bedford, N.Y., was the singer who upset his parents when he decided to drop out of grad school. He was attending NYU’s music business master’s program with the intent of working for a record label. Then he decided he’d rather be making music than working on the business side of the…
The Voice has featured duos before, but never a mother-daughter country duo. Enter 2Steel Girls, actually half of a family band that also includes the husband/father on drums and son/brother on guitar. But the gals — Allison Steel, 44, and Krystal Steel, 23 — were front and center on The Voice, hoping to finally get…
Michelle Brooks-Thompson offers a bonus to customers at the bank where she works full time. “I tell them, ‘If you open an account, I’ll sing a little tune for you,’” she told The Voice. Of course, she’s on The Voice because she’d prefer to do her singing on a stage, a much bigger stage. The…
Like lots of aspiring musicians, Samuel Mouton has a “regular” job, too. The 19-year-old from Fort Collins, Colorado, cooks pizza and washes dishes at two family restaurants. “As much as I love to cook, I don’t want to do it for the rest of my life,” he tells The Voice. What he’d like to do…
The concept of The Voice fits De’Borah’s back-story perfectly. But her sister might have known it before she did. De’Borah’s parents are pastors and teachers. So, naturally, the 25-year-old from Chicago grew up singing in church. She kept singing in church, wearing skirts and heels, until she turned 18 and “didn’t have to follow the…
Gracia Harrison might always be known as the first singer to yodel on The Voice. But she makes it clear she has higher aspirations before the show ends. For instance, being able to make a career out of music. The 18-year-old from the small town of Virden, Ill., says she was working two jobs pre-Voice,…
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