{"id":62865,"date":"2023-12-19T02:57:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T02:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/19\/the-voice-ruby-leigh-makes-her-mark-with-finale-performances\/"},"modified":"2023-12-19T02:57:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T02:57:47","slug":"the-voice-ruby-leigh-makes-her-mark-with-finale-performances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/19\/the-voice-ruby-leigh-makes-her-mark-with-finale-performances\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Voice&#8217;: Ruby Leigh Makes Her Mark With Finale Performances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/the-voice-ruby-leigh-makes-coach-reba-mcentire-proud-with-john-denver-performance-in-top-9-216338\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ruby Leigh<\/a><span>\u00a0has been a fan favorite on\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tv\/the-voice\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Voice<\/em><\/a><span>\u00a0season 24 and she made her mark with her finale performances!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Supported by coach\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/reba-mcentire\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reba McEntire<\/a><span>, the 16-year-old singer took the stage on Monday with Elvis&#8217; &#8220;Suspicious Minds&#8221; and made her coach proud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;You have amazed me every time you get on that stage,&#8221; Reba raved. &#8220;Elvis Presley might have recorded it first, but you Ruby-ized it&#8230; You did it like a champ, and the pro that you are.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;You&#8217;re so remarkable, I&#8217;ve been a fan from the very beginning,&#8221; John Legend agreed, praising Ruby&#8217;s maturity and stage presence. &#8220;Your voice has so much heft and maturity, it feels like everything&#8217;s in bold type.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Later in the show, Ruby performed her ballad selection, &#8220;Desperado&#8221; by the Eagles, and brought Reba and Gwen Stefani to tears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;You did such a wonderful job&#8221; Reba raved. &#8220;You know what you can do, and you do it so well. Not many people can do that &#8212; way to go!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gwen agreed, sharing, &#8220;Sometimes you just wanna cry on TV&#8230; That was so perfect and beautiful, and it&#8217;s just mesmerizing that you&#8217;re 16 and you can sing like that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ruby has been a fan favorite from the start &#8212; when she\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/the-voice-16-year-old-ruby-leighs-amazing-yodeling-earns-her-a-4-chair-turn-212057\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">showed off her yodeling skills<\/a><span>\u00a0in her Blind Audition on a country classic, Patsy Montana&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;I Wanna Be a Cowboy&#8217;s Sweetheart.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/the-voice-ruby-leigh-impresses-reba-mcentire-and-wynonna-judd-with-her-cover-of-blue-214801\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stayed strong<\/a><span>\u00a0with Battle and Knockout Round performances of Dolly Parton&#8217;s &#8220;Jolene&#8221; and LeAnn Rimes&#8217; &#8220;Blue&#8221; and cemented her spot in the live shows with her emotional Playoff performance of &#8220;Long Long Time&#8221; by Linda Ronstadt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;There&#8217;s nobody like Ruby in the competition,&#8221; Reba raved after the Playoffs. &#8220;She&#8217;s got that real sweet emotional cry in her voice &#8212; it wrecks my heart. She&#8217;s bringing something that I&#8217;ve never seen on\u00a0<\/span><em><span>The Voice<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0before.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ET spoke with the coaches on the red carpet ahead of this 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&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>two-part<\/span><em><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>season 24 finale<\/span><em><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>airs Monday, Dec. 18 at 8 p.m. PT\/ET and Tuesday, Dec. 19 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-her-mark-on-the-finale-with-suspicious-minds-and-desperado-216699\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruby Leigh\u00a0has been a fan favorite on\u00a0The Voice\u00a0season 24 and she made her mark with her finale performances! Supported by coach\u00a0Reba McEntire, the 16-year-old singer took the stage on Monday with Elvis&#8217; &#8220;Suspicious Minds&#8221; and made her coach proud. &#8220;You have amazed me every time you get on that stage,&#8221; Reba raved. &#8220;Elvis Presley might [&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-62865","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\/62865","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=62865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62865\/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=62865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}