The Voice is back with a new season and a new group of performers eager to impress the judges.
Season 23’s structure will be similar to previous seasons, with judges Blake Shelton, Chance The Rapper, Niall Horan, and Kelly Clarkson turning their seats and including the performers in their teams if they are pleased with the singer’s sound.
The judges and viewers may recognize one of the contestants in particular. Kason Lester is a Nashville-based singer. He has a number of songs, including Born and Bred, and he was most recently seen on American Idol season 17 in 2019. He advanced to the tournament’s Honolulu Round, finishing in the top 40.
Kason Lester, a The Voice contestant, has a sizable TikTok following
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Kason Lester is a fruit grower who co-owned a 200-acre farm called Lester Farms with his brother at the time of his American Idol auditions. According to his Instagram account, which currently has over 39K followers, he also enjoys fishing. Lester earned a degree in music management and production from Belmont University in 2017.
In 2019, he wowed the judges on American Idol with his rendition of Chris Janson’s Embrace Her. Katy Perry praised Kason’s performance and predicted he would place in the top ten. However, he and vocalists Clay Page and Johanna Jones were eliminated from the competition in the third round.
Following the performance, he released remixes of songs like Post Malone’s Take What You Want and The Beatles’ Come Together. Lester’s original country song, Love You Yet, has over 350,000 Spotify plays. Invisible, another original, was released in 2020. Kason revealed in a 2019 interview with The Wilson Post that he has always been a music fan, secretly composing and performing songs for a long time. He continued, saying:
“I tried different things, different paths, but it always came back to this, my passion of music and composing.”
Kason is also a Tik-Tok celebrity, with over 52.6 million followers and 296.3 million views at the time of writing.
Season 23 of “The Voice”
The Voice premieres on NBC on Monday, March 6 at 8 p.m. ET. The game will be broadcast on NBC every Monday and Tuesday from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET. Each show will follow competitors as they compete for the grand prize of $100,000.
According to the season description on NBC:
“Chance the Rapper, a Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist, and platinum-selling singer-songwriter Niall Horan join returning teachers Kelly Clarkson and Blake Shelton in their search for and training the next vocal sensation. The rivalry is fiercer than ever as Shelton enters his final season.”
Initially, the candidates will hold secret tryouts in which the evaluators will only be able to hear the performer’s vocal and then decide whether or not to invite the competitor to join their squad for the following stages:
- Battle Rounds
- Knockouts
- Playoffs
- Live Performance Shows
If more than one evaluator wants the vocalist to join their team, the vocalist will select their own mentor. On Monday, March 6, NBC will reveal whether Kason Lester will be able to join the teams of any of The Voice mentors.
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