Cam Anthony — a former tween Youtube star has been crowned the 20th winner of The Voice.
Anthony, 19, now hopes to live up to the hype of becoming the singing competition’s first breakout star.
Throughout the season, coach Blake Shelton, has repeatedly set expectations that the North Philadelphia native could soon become a bonafide chart-topper.
“I can definitely say it gives me a newfound sense of confidence,” the singer told reporters in a post-show zoom call.
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“Hearing someone like (Blake) speaking that highly of me definitely means a lot. It’s also validation that I’m doing the right thing, and I’m heading in the right direction and that being myself is okay and it works.”
Anthony was considered a favorite to win. early on. Three of the four coaches’ turned their chairs during his blind audition performance of Sam Smith’s “Lay With Me.”
“There are people who are born with talent, and then there are people who are born with whatever you were born with,” Shelton raved after one early performance.
“We all know what it is that we’re witnessing here. Congratulations, Cam. You’re a star, man.”
Per The Washington Post:
Around age 12, his family posted videos of him singing tracks including Bruno Mars’s “When I Was Your Man” and Lorde’s “Royals,” and his stellar vocals caught the attention of music executives and concert promoters. Millions of views later, he was on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” explaining that his parents realized he could sing at age 4 when they heard him crooning the jingle from a Folgers coffee commercial.
At 14, he signed a record deal with Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group, and landed more high-profile gigs. He impressed President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle at the 2014 White House Easter Egg Roll when he belted out the national anthem. (“The first thing that the president said was, ‘Cam, your voice is phenomenal,’ ” Anthony recalled during a “Voice” interview.) In 2018, he won Fox’s reboot of “Showtime at the Apollo.”
Yet as Anthony explained on “The Voice,” after all his early success, things took a turn and started “not necessarily going great.” So he turned to the NBC singing show to try to “re-create” himself after his career stalled.
As winner of The Voice, Anthony will receive $100,000 and a recording contract with Universal Music.
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