LOS ANGELES – Soulful crooner Javier Colon was crowned the inaugural winner of "The Voice," NBC's new singing contest.
Colon triumphed over three other finalists when the audience vote was announced on Wednesday's live season finale. He will receive a $100,000 prize and a recording contract.
LOS ANGELES – Soulful crooner Javier Colon was crowned the inaugural winner of "The Voice," NBC's new singing contest.
Colon triumphed over three other finalists when the audience vote was announced on Wednesday's live season finale. He will receive a $100,000 prize and a recording contract.
NEW YORK – When Jackie Evancho was a young girl - well, younger than her 11 years - she remembers singing songs like "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" around the house and getting a response far less adoring than the ovations she now commands.
NEW YORK – A teenager from Minnesota and one from New York won top honors at the National High School Musical Theater Awards on Monday night, sweeping to glory at the "Glee"-type competition by mastering songs by Stephen Sondheim and Frank Loesser.
ATLANTA – Malaysian singer-songwriter Yuna didn't take long to pen her first tune, writing the winsome "A Deeper Conversation" after learning a meager three chords on her first guitar.
NEW YORK – Nina Arianda's summer plans will hopefully involve plenty of work.
Currently in the middle of a four-month run of "Born Yesterday" on Broadway, the 26-year-old actress says that when the run ends on July 31 she might spend a week at the beach but then go straight back to the grind.
NEW YORK – This year Adele has dominated the music charts: back home in the U.K., in the U.S. and around the world.
NEW YORK – Lykke Li is sitting in a TV studio, preparing for an interview, when she catches herself on the TV monitor.
"It's so weird," she says, looking at herself. "Like, you see everything.
"I think I become a bit self-conscious," she continues with a light laugh.
The TV is turned off.
NEW YORK – British musical talent Ellie Goulding is about to get a little more famous: She's been selected to sing at the wedding reception of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
NEW YORK – Hayley Kiyoko and Naomi Scott are the next generation of Disney Channel starlets, and these BFFs are getting a crash course in signing autographs, security guards and singing on live TV.
NEW YORK – Ever since Lauren Pritchard was a teenager, she dreamed of becoming a singer-songwriter — a goal she pursued with almost singular determination, even passing up a coveted opportunity to achieve it.
