Blake Shelton and Danielle Bradbery pose after
she won season-four of "The Voice" Tuesday June 18, 2013. Bradbery never
had a big singing gig or a vocal lesson. It's also the third win for
her coach Blake Shelton.
on June 19, 2013 - 12:57 AM
, updated June 19, 2013 at
1:12 PM
By Amy Reiter
LOS ANGELES TIMES
LOS ANGELES – Danielle Bradbery beat out rivals Michelle Chamuel and the Swon Brothers to emerge as the Season 4 winner of “The Voice” on Tuesday night, giving coach Blake Shelton his threepeat. For the third straight year, and in three out of the four seasons the show has been on the air, a contestant mentored by Shelton has taken the show’s top honors.
“I don’t give a crap, honestly, about a threepeat,” Shelton had said early in the night, long before the results were revealed, insisting he was focused only on this year, when he again had two contestants in the final three.
After two hours filled with performances – by contestants current and returning and visiting celebs who ran the gamut from break-taking “Voice” coach Christina Aguilera and Pitbull to Bruno Mars to Bob Seger to Cher in her first live TV performance in years – and with only five minutes left in the show, Carson Daly finally gathered the Top 3 to hear the news they’d been waiting for.
Who would take it? Would it be Bradbery, the silky-voiced, silky-haired 16-year-old from Cypress, Texas, who Shelton said was destined for big things in country music, and whom Levine had already tipped for the win?
Would it be Massachusetts native Chamuel, whose big heart, solid vocals and bendy knees had won her many devoted fans? Or would it be the fraternal duo from Muskogee, Okla., the Swon Brothers, whose good humor and charm are on full display every time they appear on screen?
Going home third, Daly said, were the Swon Brothers. That left Chamuel and Bradbery. They clung to each other. Shelton and Usher briefly reached across the chasm between their red chairs and clasped hands.
And the winner was … Bradbery. Bradbery had vaulted straight to the top. She had sung with one of her favorite musicians, young Nashville star Hunter Hayes, during the long lead-up to the results. Asked for her reaction, the newly minted winner, stammered, “I don’t even know … I’m thankful,” before adding, “I’m sorry. I’m speechless.”
She tried to sing Sara Evans’ “Born to Fly,” but when the confetti dropped, she simply had to stop.
LOS ANGELES TIMES
LOS ANGELES – Danielle Bradbery beat out rivals Michelle Chamuel and the Swon Brothers to emerge as the Season 4 winner of “The Voice” on Tuesday night, giving coach Blake Shelton his threepeat. For the third straight year, and in three out of the four seasons the show has been on the air, a contestant mentored by Shelton has taken the show’s top honors.
“I don’t give a crap, honestly, about a threepeat,” Shelton had said early in the night, long before the results were revealed, insisting he was focused only on this year, when he again had two contestants in the final three.
After two hours filled with performances – by contestants current and returning and visiting celebs who ran the gamut from break-taking “Voice” coach Christina Aguilera and Pitbull to Bruno Mars to Bob Seger to Cher in her first live TV performance in years – and with only five minutes left in the show, Carson Daly finally gathered the Top 3 to hear the news they’d been waiting for.
Who would take it? Would it be Bradbery, the silky-voiced, silky-haired 16-year-old from Cypress, Texas, who Shelton said was destined for big things in country music, and whom Levine had already tipped for the win?
Would it be Massachusetts native Chamuel, whose big heart, solid vocals and bendy knees had won her many devoted fans? Or would it be the fraternal duo from Muskogee, Okla., the Swon Brothers, whose good humor and charm are on full display every time they appear on screen?
Going home third, Daly said, were the Swon Brothers. That left Chamuel and Bradbery. They clung to each other. Shelton and Usher briefly reached across the chasm between their red chairs and clasped hands.
And the winner was … Bradbery. Bradbery had vaulted straight to the top. She had sung with one of her favorite musicians, young Nashville star Hunter Hayes, during the long lead-up to the results. Asked for her reaction, the newly minted winner, stammered, “I don’t even know … I’m thankful,” before adding, “I’m sorry. I’m speechless.”
She tried to sing Sara Evans’ “Born to Fly,” but when the confetti dropped, she simply had to stop.
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