No one was happier after The Voice finale than coach Blake Shelton. Well, winner Danielle Bradbery was pretty happy too, but Shelton was excited to see a country singer finally win the competition. He has not stopped talking about the 16-year-old’s talent and if it goes his way, she’ll be one of the biggest country singers in the nation.
Bradbery won the show last night, beating out Michelle Chamuel and The Swon Brothers.
“She’s never changed throughout this competition,” Shelton said about the Texas native in an Entertainment Weekly. He hopes “that everybody gets a chance to meet her someday because you’ll know the same things that I know — that her concerns right now are now that this is over, ‘Can I go back and hang out with my friends for a week and have summer together,’ you know what I mean? That’s how real of a human being she is and that’s what I love about her the most.”
While chatting with The Hollywood Reporter, Shelton said that he had been hoping a country artist would win “since day one. I've made no bones about the fact that I want to win this thing with a country artist.”
He still couldn't explain how the show had made it through three seasons already with no country singer winning until Bradbery. “For whatever reason, we've stumbled along the way and it's taken until season four to come up with the right country artist.”
Shelton has high hopes for Bradbery’s future, predicting that she’ll be a respected talent in Nashville. “I definitely would love to have Blake included in everything,” she told EW. “The music, I want to make my own song and… Oh man I’m just so excited for whatever comes.”
The Voice returns in the fall with Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera back as coaches.
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