With Adam Levine rejoining The Voice coaches for the season at present airing on the 2025 TV schedule, many followers are upset that fellow OG Blake Shelton isn’t again to commerce barbs with him. The cowboy might have turned his chair for the final time, however it will appear his mentoring days are removed from over. Season 9 contestant Emily Ann Roberts opened up about simply how a lot her former coach has completed (and continues to do) for her profession, and I’m blown away.
Blake Shelton has famously continued to assist the artists from The Voice lengthy after the cameras cease rolling — as identified by Kelly Clarkson in his last season — and Emily Ann Roberts can definitely attest to that. The nation singer was simply 16 when she completed in second place to Jordan Smith in 2015, and she or he instructed US Weekly Shelton hit the bottom operating after the finale. She mentioned:
Blake has been completely unimaginable from the get-go. I’ll always remember once I acquired off The Voice, he was calling me, saying, ‘So-and-so desires to fulfill with you, and I acquired this buddy that desires to work with you.’ He would name me out of the blue and make connections and test on me. He has simply been such an important mentor.
That’s superb how a lot effort Blake Shelton places into artists he sees potential in, and she or he’s not the one one. A number of Workforce Blake alumni have mentioned they saved in contact with the “God’s Nation” singer and performed at his bar Ole Crimson, together with Season 21’s Lana Scott, who had a candy run-in with Shelton.
For Emily Ann Roberts, assembly the nation famous person actually has been life-changing, and 10 years later she’s as shut as ever to her former coach. In reality, final yr Blake Shelton invited her to open for him, and she or he performed on his Associates and Heroes Tour this yr too. She mentioned watching him work together with the viewers and make everybody really feel like a part of the expertise is among the largest issues she’s realized from him. It’s been an “invaluable” lesson, she mentioned:
[He] is giving me this chance to exit on the highway with him and share my music together with his followers. And that’s one thing you can’t even put a price ticket on — the chance to face in entrance of an viewers that measurement and share your music with them is simply invaluable. But additionally to have the ability to stand at entrance of home whereas he performs each single night time and study from him is healthier than any faculty or coaching you might ever have, since you’re studying from a professional who has completed this for extra years than I’ve in all probability been alive, virtually, and completed it so nicely.
That’s an unimaginable expertise that Blake Shelton has given Emily Ann Roberts, and she or he appears to realize it.
In fact the previous Voice coach can’t take each contestant he’s ever labored with on the highway with him — although perhaps that’s a part of the inspiration behind his and Taylor Sheridan’s new singing competitors — however he does nonetheless seem to assist a lot of them. No matter effort he places into it, I feel it’s actually cool, as a result of he’s definitely not required to remain in contact with any of the singers from the present.
Blake Shelton and his former staff members could also be off doing their factor, however The Voice continues on NBC with new hopefuls, so tune in at 8 p.m. ET Mondays on NBC and streaming the subsequent day with a Peacock subscription.