Bryson Battle may just have The Voice. During week two of the blind auditions, the 21-year-old wowed the judges with his performance of “A Song for You,” no one more so than Michael Bublé.
Battle earned a four-chair turn and Bublé, Kelsea Ballerini, John Legend, and Adam Levine all expressed their awe. Before they made their pitches to Battle, though, fans got to learn about the North Carolina singer.
In a video, Battle said there wasn’t “a time in my life when I wasn’t singing.” Then, he opened up about his battle with vitiligo, a disorder that means his skin cells don’t produce pigment.
Back in the auditorium, Ballerini gushed about how Battle was “singing from your soul,” but Bublé one-upped that compliment.
“You might have the greatest voice I’ve ever heard,” Bublé said.
Levine’s tactic was to pitch how he could help Battle, pointing out the importance of song choices going forward. It was Legend, though, who eventually won Battle over.
“Everything felt like it was just breathing for you,” Legend said of Battle’s performance, before the singer went with him as his coach.
Past Four-Chair Turns on Season 27 of ‘The Voice’
The former did so by nailing a cover of Noah Kahn’s “Northern Attitude,” immediately prompting Levine and Ballerini to press their buttons. Legend followed shortly thereafter, making Bublé the last to turn.
The accomplishment marked the third four-chair turn of the season. In the show’s season 27 premiere, both Ethan Eckenroad and Grace-Miller Moody got all four judges to turn around.
After Eckenroad wrapped his performance, Levine praised his “effortless” voice, which he said was his “favorite” he’d heard thus far. Ballerini, meanwhile, tried to woe Eckenroad over to Team Kelsea by pointing out her own song with Kahn, “Cowboys Cry Too.”
Bublé showed off a pic of his teenage mullet to express his want for Eckenroad, while Legend brought in a sign spinner to prove his dedication. In the end, it was Levine who won Eckenroad over and became his coach.
Moody, meanwhile, expertly covered Maroon 5’s “Sunday Morning.” She did so well, in fact, that the band’s frontman—as well as the other three coaches—pressed their buttons for her.
Bublé predicted that Moody would become a “superstar,” while Legend suggested that Levine would be “rusty” as a coach after his extended absence from the show. Just as Levine began pitching himself, Ballerini pressed her button, prompting insults from Blake Shelton, Levine’s former The Voice nemesis, to play for all to hear. It was all for naught, though, as Levine wound up securing Moody as a member of his team.
