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'The Voice' Season 14 finale recap: Brynn Cartelli becomes youngest winner at 15
'The Voice' Season 14 finale recap: Brynn Cartelli becomes youngest winner at 15. One night after American Idol crowned its first champion since its resurrection on ABC, it was NBC's turn, naming the winner of The Voice's 14th season.May 22, 2018
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One night after American Idol crowned its first champion since its resurrection on ABC, it was NBC's turn, naming the winner of The Voice's 14th season.
Kelly Clarkson, the inaugural American Idol champ who officially joined the Voice coaching panel this season, claimed her first win with 15-year-old Brynn Cartelli, the youngest champion to date. (The Massachusetts high schooler, who was 14 when she was cast, celebrated her birthday in April.)
The show's winners are chosen by tallying viewer votes through the
show's phone and tablet apps, the NBC website and text as well as iTunes
purchases. Fans can vote up to 10 times per artist.
("The Voice" winner Brynn Cartelli, left, hugs her coach, Kelly Clarkson,
as runner-up Britton Buchanan and host Carson Daly stand nearby. (Photo: Trae Patton, NBC)
The two African-American finalists, both coached by six-time winner
Blake Shelton, were cut first: Spensha Baker, a 24-year-old aspiring
country singer from San Antonio and Kyla Jade, a Nashville-based gospel
singer who was encouraged to audition by none other than past and
future Voice coach and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson.
hat left the two white teenagers — Cartelli, from
Longmeadow, Mass., and Britton Buchanan, from Sanford, N.C. — coached by
Alicia Keys to contend for the title.
Viewers have long raised questions about who is more likely to win a singing show, going back to a stretch on the original Idol when white men won eight out of nine competitions. On Idol this season, some fans took to social media to express displeasure with the earlier than expected departure of a couple of talented black singers.
Cartelli was crowned after two hours of
non-competition performances featuring the finalists with former
contestants and their favorite artists.
Cartelli performed a medley of Issues and Jump with Julia Michaels, who wrote Walk My Way, the original dance-pop song the high schooler performed Monday night.
Runner-up Buchanan, an aspiring bluesy rock singer/songwriter, was joined by another North Carolinian, Ryan Adams, for To Be Without You.
Baker performed a duet with country star Kane Brown on What If and Jade teamed up with Hudson for Queen Latifah's I Know Where I've Been.
There
were also guest performances from Season 13 winner Chloe
Kohanski, Jason Aldean, Dua Lipa, Halsey and Big Sean and Florence and
the Machine.
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