Il divo biography hoot

Jake Hoot Shares Both Parenting and Musical Advice Coach Kelly Clarkson Gave Him on ‘The Voice’

Congratulations are in order for Jake Hoot!

The 31-year-old Cookeville, Tennessee resident was crowned the winner for Season 17 of The Voiceon Tuesday (December 17) and not only was it a milestone win, but it was also a full circle moment for the contestant.

Jake was born in Texas, but his parents are missionaries and relocated the family to the Dominican Republic when he was 9. While living there, he began singing and playing guitar while also becoming fluent in Spanish.

At 20, he moved to Tennessee where he began gigging and attended Tennessee Tech University as a walk-on football player. Jake later got married and now has a 4-year-old daughter. After getting divorced, the single dad auditioned for The Voice in hopes of a fresh start and achieved what seemed to be impossible. Only receiving a one chair turn from Kelly Clarkson at auditions, Hoot says that winning was “an incredible feat.”

“Honestly, I didn’t really focus on it,” Hoot te

Penrith woman’s Il Divo dream comes true

Neste artigo (em inglês), publicado por ocasião do lançamento do último CD, os divos contam sobre sua infância, a vida dura que levavam antes de entrar para o grupo, da relação com o mentor Simon, do sucesso, do cuidado com o dinheiro, das fãs, das esposas e namoradas, de filhos e …de sexo!

From CAROLINE IGGULDEN
In BarcelonaPublished: 14 Nov 2008   

THEIR street credibility is right up there with, er, SIR CLIFF RICHARD’s.

But that hasn’t stopped “popera” boyband Il Divo becoming one of the world’s biggest-selling groups.Over the past four years they have shifted an astonishing 22MILLION records – more than ARCTIC MONKEYS or GIRLS ALOUD. They have even managed to break America – which ROBBIE WILLIAMS and OASIS could not do.  

 Il Divo’s last three albums went to No1 in 26 countries and the group – put together by pop svengali SIMON COWELL – have already completed two sell-out world tours.  

 Latest album The Promise was No1 in the UK midweek charts, which means it

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