{"id":60987,"date":"2023-12-12T01:17:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T01:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/12\/the-voice-top-9-ruby-leigh-makes-reba-proud-with-john-denver-cover\/"},"modified":"2023-12-12T01:17:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T01:17:28","slug":"the-voice-top-9-ruby-leigh-makes-reba-proud-with-john-denver-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/12\/the-voice-top-9-ruby-leigh-makes-reba-proud-with-john-denver-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Voice&#8217; Top 9: Ruby Leigh Makes Reba Proud With John Denver Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/the-voice-ruby-leigh-brings-reba-mcentire-to-tears-with-one-of-her-own-songs-215905\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ruby Leigh<\/a><span>\u00a0took on a country music fan favorite on Monday&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tv\/the-voice\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Voice<\/em><\/a><span> semifinals &#8212; and performed it to perfection!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The season 24 semifinals featured the Top 9 singers performing a fan-selected song, and for Ruby it was a country classic:\u00a0John Denver&#8217;s &#8220;Take Me Home, Country Roads&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Coach <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/reba-mcentire\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reba McEntire<\/a><span> called the 16-year-old singer a &#8220;show-stopper&#8221; in rehearsals, and that carried over to her live performance where she wowed the coaches and crowd with her\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;You did a great job,&#8221; Reba praised. &#8220;You did everything to perfection. I&#8217;m really, really proud, you sang your butt off tonight.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/john-legend\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Legend<\/a><span> agreed, telling the talented young singer, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been a fan of yours since day one.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I love that you are always so authentically you&#8230; and sing the music that means so much to you,&#8221; he added, praising Ruby&#8217;s consistency and commitment to her country music roots &#8212; as well as her impressive high notes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ET spoke with the coaches on the red carpet ahead of the season&#8217;s first live show, and all of them marveled at the range of talent they&#8217;ve seen on the show this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The talent this year has just been like, across the board &#8212; all of our teams are pretty insane,&#8221; Niall raved. &#8220;The voices that I have this year are just like, some of the best singers I&#8217;ve ever heard.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>John agreed, saying,\u00a0&#8220;The depth of the talent this season is better than I&#8217;ve ever seen it on this show since I&#8217;ve been here.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;This is my eighth season and I&#8217;ve never seen just this level of quality across the board,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m so impressed with our artists this year.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I have some amazing singers, and I think it&#8217;s just gonna come down to at this point people start to fall in love with not just the voice, but the person as well,&#8221; Gwen shared. &#8220;It&#8217;s ridiculous this season. I know we say that every season and it always feels like that, but this one has a particularly tall order.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I really couldn&#8217;t tell you [who might win],&#8221; Reba agreed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Voice\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>airs Mondays at 8 p.m. PT\/ET and Tuesdays at 9 p.m. PT\/ET on NBC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/the-voice-ruby-leigh-makes-coach-reba-mcentire-proud-with-john-denver-performance-in-top-9-216338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruby Leigh\u00a0took on a country music fan favorite on Monday&#8217;s The Voice semifinals &#8212; and performed it to perfection! The season 24 semifinals featured the Top 9 singers performing a fan-selected song, and for Ruby it was a country classic:\u00a0John Denver&#8217;s &#8220;Take Me Home, Country Roads&#8221; Coach Reba McEntire called the 16-year-old singer a &#8220;show-stopper&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[174,21,20,49,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-60987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment-tonight","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-the-voice","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}