There’s a great chance that the winner of Season 15 of The Voice is going to be young and female. Seven of the Top 11 artists are female, and five of them are teenagers. The youngest female contender is Kennedy Holmes, the 13-year-old from St. Louis, Missouri. Kennedy is on Jennifer Hudson‘s team. Kennedy isn’t afraid to hit the high or big notes. For her Top 13 live performance, she sang the Grammy Award-winning “Wind Beneath My Wings” by Bette Midler, as featured in the 1988 movie Beaches.
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For her Top 11 performance, Kennedy takes on “Greatest Love of All.” It was originally performed by George Benson and was the theme song of the 1977 Muhammad Ali biopic The Greatest. And then the late Whitney Houston knocked it out of the park in 1986. What’s tragic about the song is the story behind the lyrics. Michael Masser composed the music, and Linda Creed wrote the lyrics. Creed, who was then 26, was struggling with breast cancer. Just months after Houston’s version was released, Creed died of breast cancer at the age of 37. In 1992, she was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. (Creed also co-wrote The Spinners popular song “The Rubberband Man.”) The Voice airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 pm on NBC.
