Weeki Wachee Singer Makes Team Reba On The Voice
Weeki Wachee singer makes team Reba on The Voice. His name is Donny Van Slee.
Donny sang his heart out to Lanco’s Greatest Love Story and got both Reba and the boys from Dan + Shay to turn around. Unfortunately, Reba blocked Dan + Shay, so he automatically was on team Reba which is a great place to be. Reba is the queen of country music and she also offers up her chicken tenders to those on her team. Van Slee said they were delicious.
About Donny
He is 30 years old and now lives in Nashville. He is a chiropractor and is known as Dr. Donny. Donny grew up in the area. He graduated from West Hernando middle school and got his bachelors in business from PHSC. He then, attended chiropractor school in Daytona Beach. Donny has been playing guitar since he was 11yrs old. When he was old enough about 15 he started playing gigs around the area.
On his way to Colorado in 2021 he went through Nashville and fell in love with that life and eventually got a job at the world famous Tootie’s on Broadway. Since then he’s been living in Nashville writing songs, playing on Broadway while working at the chiropractor clinic during the day.
When we spoke with Donny, he explained to us that The Voice actually reached out to him. He sent them 3 songs that they loved and eventually got him on the show.
Check out Donny’s new album
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One of the best teams you can get on is Reba’s. McEntire first joined The Voice in 2023 following Blake Shelton’s exit and after appearing as a celebrity mentor on numerous times prior. Other teams on the show this season are coaches Chance the Rapper, John Legend and duo Dan + Shay.
You can watch Van Slee during “The Voice” Season 25. Episodes air every Monday and Tuesday at 8 p.m. on News Channel 8.
Top Five All-Time Queens Of Country Music
Country music through the years has always had a strong female presence. In the 1960s, country music stars like Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn ruled the country charts and country fan’s hearts.
Through movies, we have been able to see the rise and tragic fall of Patsy Cline, who died in her 20s in 1963 in a plane crash as she was heading back to Nashville from a show. In 1985, actress Jessica Lange told her story on Sweet Dreams. Lange was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress.
And we all know the story of Loretta Lynn. Sissy Spacek portrayed the country icon in Coal Miner’s Daughter in 1980, and won the Oscar for Best Actress.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Dolly Parton and Barbara Mandrell ruled country music as Mandrell became the first artist to win the CMA Entertainer of the Year Award twice in a row in 1980 and 1981. Lynn was the first woman to win the top award of ETOTY from the CMA in 1972. Between the two, Parton was crowned CMA’s ETOTY in 1978.
When Lainey Wilson won the CMA ETOTY honor in 2023, she talked about Dolly, telling us backstage after her win, “When I went to Dollywood, and I hung out with her a little bit, I told her… I said the CMAs are around the corner. She said, ‘I’ve won one a time or two.’ I mean, Dolly, she’s it. She’s the one that I look to when I think about how to go about this business.
Wilson added, “She’s never been scared to step outside the lines, to step outside the box. But at the same time, she’s completely true to herself and true to her story.”
While Lainey is primed and ready to be the next Queen of Country Music, we gathered five women who made a considerable mark in country music and are forever considered Queens of Country Music:
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