Keith Urban Joins The Voice As The New Mega Mentor
Keith Urban joins The Voice! NBC’s The Voice announced today (3/25) that Keith Urban would serve as the mega mentor on Season 25.
This Season’s Coaches
Season 25, which premiered on February 26, features coaches Chance the Rapper, Dan + Shay, John Legend, and Reba McEntire. Urban will begin mentoring beginning with the April 8 episode.
An Advisor
Keith previously appeared on The Voice as an adviser to coach Blake Shelton during Season 15. He also served as a coach in the Australian version of The Voice for Seasons 1, 10, and 11.
Urban is set to release his 12th studio album later in 2024. The project, for which a title has yet to be announced, will include the already released singles “Straight Line” and “Messed Up As Me.”
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Live Performance
In mentoring artists on The Voice, the country superstar will no doubt be talking about live performance and how to win over your audience. Keith himself is an artist who likes to feed off of his crowd each and every night.
As Keith told us in a recent interview, not all music artists, including one of his close friends in music, are that way. He explained,
“I was on the phone with a very well-known artist friend of mine last year. He posed a question to me, ‘If you could play arenas for the rest of your life, but they’re only fifty percent full, would you still want to go on tour?’ And I said, ‘Well, I have a follow-up question. What kind of people are in the fifty percent?’ And he said, ‘Well, does that matter?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, it really matters; if the entire fifty percent of them are sitting, watching the show like it’s a Ted Talk, I probably wouldn’t want to do that.'”
Urban added, “I need energy. I give the audience energy, and I hope that they give it back to me and I give it back to them. That’s how I like to play.”
Snow Globe
Keith continued, “I said, ‘Does that not matter to you?’ and he said, ‘No, I couldn’t care less. It doesn’t make any difference.’ He said, ‘I’m a snow globe; you just watch what I do. However you want to watch it doesn’t bother me in the least.’ Which I thought was interesting, but that artist was true to who he was and how he liked to perform, just as I was. So we learned something about each other in that conversation.”
He concluded, “Some artists are a snow globe. I’m definitely not. I like participation.”
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