Glen Cove-raised singer Shye positioned second as this season of NBC’s “The Voice” wrapped Tuesday evening, with fellow Team Michael Bublé member Sofronio Vasquez taking prime honors.
“Congrats @sofroniovasquez I like you winnaaaaa,” Shye wrote shortly afterward on Instagram Stories, the place posts cycle out after 24 hours. In a second publish she added, “Y’all I … wished 2nd place so dangerous[.] I’m so … blissful proper now you don’t even perceive.”
“I wished to be No. 2. I wished to be second place,” the singer informed Newsday by cellphone from Los Angeles on Wednesday. Noting that Vasquez, now an in depth good friend, “deserves it greater than anyone else on this complete world,” she explains that, “There’s loads of strain that goes into being first place. I simply did not really feel like first place would swimsuit my desires, particularly with the document contract” that’s a part of the first-prize package deal and which former “Voice” coaches Blake Shelton and Adam Levine, in addition to some former winners, have criticized as constraining, amongst different points.
“Yes, precisely,” says Shye. “I informed all my pals, ‘Vote for Sofronio, not me. I do not need to get first place.’ Anybody on the crew will inform you that. I used to be like, ‘Ohmigod, if I do not get second, I’ll cry.’”
On Tuesday’s stay outcomes present, following Monday’s closing efficiency present, Shye and five-time Grammy Award winner Bublé carried out a duet of composer C. Carson Parks’ “Somethin’ Stupid,” a 1967 hit for Frank Sinatra and daughter Nancy Sinatra. “I all the time thought it was such a candy factor watching [the father and daughter] sing it collectively,” Bublé, 49, defined of his selection. “And I simply thought that I may simply be related with you on one thing that’s so candy.”
Just earlier than the winner was introduced, Bublé informed his protégé, “These usually are not the final phrases. No matter what occurs, these are simply one of many many phrases that you simply and I are going to share going right into a future collectively whereas I watch you make lovely music … You have one thing so particular. And I could not be happier for you on this second.”
Shye, born Madison Roberts, attended Landing Elementary School, Robert Finley Middle School and Glen Cove High School, incomes singing honors and starring at school productions of “In the Heights,” “Miss Saigon” and different musicals. In her senior 12 months she transferred to the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, when her household relocated to that metropolis, and graduated this 12 months.
Named a number of years to the Nassau Music Educators Association’s roster of All-County musicians, Shye moreover gained the Hauppauge-based LGBT Network’s annual LGBT Got Big Talent competitors in 2022.
