It’s down to the Top 12 on The Voice, Season 11. It’s no wonder Billy Gilman is still in the competition on Team Adam. Billy released his first country album, One Voice, with Sony Records when he as 12. The title track earned him a Grammy Award nomination but when his voice changed, Billy got dropped from his record deal. Now he’s trying to make a go with pop music.
[Billy Gilman’s version of When We Were Young is available on iTunes]
On The Voice, during the Top 12 rehearsals, Billy is approached by the best-selling solo artist of all time, Garth Brooks. The 7-time Diamond Award winner and 5-time Entertainer of the Year Brooks puts his shoulder on Gilman’s and says: “The best compliment a singer can give another compliment is – ‘I wish I could sing like that’.” Billy shyly says, “no, no” but his coach Adam Levine agreed and says, ‘I do too.” The Voice airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 8pm on NBC.
