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  • The Voice Winner: Josh Kaufman Begins New Journey

    The Voice winner was declared Tuesday night and now the life of Josh Kaufman is forever changed. He won a recording contract, money, and gained the experience of a lifetime.

    “This is the last big chance for me and for my family. To be able to do this for them and for Usher, it’s huge.” Kaufman said early in the show.

    After dealing out one great song after another, the Team Usher star earned serious respect with his earlier rendition of “Set Fire to the Rain”. He won out in a close race between Christina Grimmie of Team Adam Levine, and Jake Worthington of Team Blake Shelton, which was the first victory for another coach besides Shelton or Levine.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBqHUTfTiJA

    “I can’t even talk,” he said after the big win. “I’m overwhelmed. I’m surprised. I’m happy. I’m relieved. This has been so much more of an experience than I ever could have imagined.”

    Despite his humble beginnings playing local gigs with his band in the Indianapolis area and supporting his family as an SAT prep tutor, he showed early on that he had what it takes to be a star on the show.

    “This is a show about dreams, about the journey of being an artist, and he represents all of that.”, Usher said during the show. “From the time of the blind auditions to being stolen, he’s been on an amazing journey.”

    An amazing journey, indeed.

    Josh will continue that journey as he hits the road on tour this summer along with the other two finalists. Joining them will be fan favorite Kristen Merlin, as well as some familiar faces from season five like winner Tessanne Chin, runner-up Jacquie Lee and Will Champlin. Still popular season one favorite Dia Frampton will also be along for the ride!

    Congratulations to Josh! Was he your pick or do you think another contestant was better?

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  • The Voice Winner of Season Six Is *Spoilers*. Who’s Up For Season Seven?

    Internet spoilage being what it is, it’s hard to avoid reading about the outcome of a show as popular as The Voice. But it’s usually mandatory to declare an official spoiler alert at the beginning of articles such as these, just in case you’re reading preview text or clicked on this by accident.

    SPOILER ALERT.

    There. You’ve been warned. Read at your own peril.

    The fact that you’re reading this article at all is a sign that you either watched the season finale or you don’t mind the spoilers with your reality TV.

    Last night, Josh Kaufman was declared the winner.

    He may not have been the favorite. And there may have been a glitch involving iTunes, that got his coach, Usher, really upset.

    But he won nevertheless.

    Usher has had a lot to say about the win, including a message of hope to new coaches Pharrell Williams and Gwen Stefani. “(They can) be motivated by the fact that I was able to win ‘The Voice,’” he told TODAY. “I think that they are both incredible artists, and as long as they are as true in their process of working with talent as they are with their creative, then it should work. They’re geniuses. For the most part they should just be true to who they are, that’s what I did. It was a bit unorthodox … but that was all a process of artist development.”

    Season seven of the voice is on the horizon. But little is known as to what it will bring. We know that Usher won’t be returning. Will his “replacement” Pharrell Williams claim a win for whoever he coaches? Or will we see a win from old guard members Adam Levine or Blake Shelton?

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  • “The Voice” Winner: Usher Talks About iTunes Mixup

    “The Voice” has amassed a huge following over the last six seasons, with fans tuning in by the millions to watch the finale on Tuesday night. Unfortunately for many, a technical mistake threw the entire episode into question and caused some controversy during the big night.

    iTunes reportedly had winner Josh Kaufman’s hit cover of “Set Fire To The Rain” listed as an album and not a single, which made it difficult to find on the site. Because iTunes sales factor in to the final decision, many fans were worried that Kaufman wouldn’t get credit for the purchases.

    “The night got pretty stressful and I was worried about how that was going to affect everything and, of course, I don’t know. I had no idea how it would affect it and for all I knew it wouldn’t. It’s just kind of that feeling of, ‘Wait a minute, what’s going on? How do I deal with this?’ But I know there were so many people working behind the scenes to figure it all out, and they did,” Kaufman said.

    Winning coach Usher said he was ready for the title after five seasons of watching Adam Levine and Blake Shelton dominate things.

    “It was every bit of what I hoped for. Losing was not an option. I couldn’t imagine walking away this season after seeing season after season [of] Blake and Adam winning. I think that Josh really put up an incredible performance and night as an artist in this competition. Though there had been, I guess, a glitch, it is undeniable that he is The Voice,” Usher said.

    Executive producer Mark Burnett assured viewers–as well as Kaufman–that he was the rightful winner of the talent competition, saying he was the clear winner.

    “You still clearly won and as per the rules, we can remove any form of voting and you remove that and you still clearly and convincingly won. Every way you ever look at it, this guy is the winner of The Voice.”

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  • ‘The Voice’ Winner: Were You Surprised?

    ‘The Voice’ Winner: Were You Surprised?

    The Voice winner was crowned on Tuesday night with some fans no doubt in shock over who it turned out to be. Do note that if you haven’t yet watched Tuesday night’s episode via your DVR on a service like On Demand that the following content contains a spoiler.

    Many fans believed Team Adam’s Christina Grimmie was a shoe-in for the title of The Voice. After all, she was the singer whose initial claim to fame was that of a YouTube sensation. It was highly anticipated that her fan base would allow her the necessary number of votes to surpass both Team Blake’s Jake Worthington and Team Usher’s Josh Kaufman. Clearly that was not the case on Tuesday night, however, as Christina Grimmie wound up the third place singer of the three finalists.

    At that point many viewers were excited–not because Christina Grimmie wasn’t crowned The Voice–but because it was a complete toss up at that point as to which of the remaining gentlemen would win the competition.

    Before the spoiler, let’s briefly recap the entire finale. The performances were spectacular, with all three finalists bringing back contestants from earlier in this season’s show. Big name performances included Tim McGraw, Ed Sheeran, Alabama, Robin Thicke, Coldplay, and more. Last season’s winner of The Voice–Tessanne Chin–also sang, belting out a tune in her sultry, strong voice that made her last season’s clear frontrunner long before she won the title.

    Even though Christina Grimmie didn’t win the title of The Voice, she went on stage Tuesday night as a huge winner just the same. Among the high points of the early moments of the show was one in which Adam Levine told her he wanted to sign her to his own record label. She was shown backstage listening to his announcement.

    Jake Worthington won the hearts of Americans for the umpteenth time during this season of The Voice when he announced he was going to give his Kia–a gift to the three finalists of The Voice–to his grandmother.

    “Since she bought my first vehicle, this is my chance to give back to her,” he told Carson Daly.

    So who is The Voice winner? It’s Josh Kaufman. His bluesy ballads and raspy falsettos won over fans enough to crown him The Voice winner. Congratulations to Josh and to Team Usher. For once in the history of The Voice, The Voice winner isn’t attached to Team Adam or Team Blake. Usher had fun sharing that fact with his Twitter followers.

    Josh Kaufman has been rendered almost speechless so far.

    Are you surprised that Josh Kaufman is The Voice winner? Were you among those who truly believed Christina Grimmie had the title hands down?

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  • ‘The Voice’: Josh Kaufman of Team Usher Wins

    ‘The Voice’: Josh Kaufman of Team Usher Wins

    After battling it out for weeks, Josh Kaufman emerged Tuesday from a line-up of particularly gifted performers to win this season’s The Voice competition.

    Finalists Josh Kaufman of Team Usher, Christina Grimmie of Team Adam Levine, and Jake Worthington of Team Blake Shelton battled it out throughout the season, and it was difficult to decide who truly had “the voice” among the talented singers.

    Unfortunately, only one could be crowned the winner — and this season, it was Kaufman.

    “This is a show about dreams, about the journey of being an artist, and he represents all of that,” said Usher after the win. “From the time of the blind auditions to being stolen, he’s been on an amazing journey.”

    In his pre-The Voice life, Kaufman played local gigs with his band in the Indianapolis area and supported his family as an SAT prep tutor.

    At the announcement by host Carson Daly that he had won the competition, Kaufman was a little calmer than one would expect.

    “I can’t even talk,” he said after winning the competition. “I’m overwhelmed. I’m surprised. I’m happy. I’m relieved. This has been so much more of an experience than I ever could have imagined.”

    Kaufman’s win brings Usher to the coach’s winners circle — only Shelton and Levine have claimed that spot in other seasons. Ironically, Kaufman began his journey on Team Adam until Usher stole him away.

    “This is the last big chance for me and for my family. To be able to do this for them and for Usher, it’s huge,” Kaufman said before performing.

    The other young finalists Worthington and Grimmie, while they didn’t win, walk away with some great prospects for their future.

    Worthington, a 17-year-old country singer from La Porte, Texas, who was turned away last season during the blind auditions, said his experience on the show reminded him that it’s ultimately about the music.

    “It’s not the recording contract and it’s not the money,” said Worthington. “It’s getting on that stage, grabbing the microphone and doing what we love – and that’s what matters.”

    YouTube sensation Grimmie, 20, came in third. However, she still came out a winner after receiving some good news earlier in the show. Levine told her that despite the outcome, “you will have a record deal because I would like to sign you for my label.”

    Kaufman will receive a recording contract and head out on a 31-date summer tour with the other two finalists, and fan-favorite Kristen Merlin, along with season 5 winner Tessanne Chin, runner-ups Jacquie Lee and Will Champlin, and season 1 favorite Dia Frampton.

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