Tuesday night, iTunes began taking pre-orders for her post-"Voice" album, which has a listed release date of March 25, 2014. She won’t have long to celebrate her victory. “I think a lot of my dreams have come true,” she said, “and my next dream is to have a No. “I can't even speak clearly here, but that's how good she is.”Īs the champion of season five, Tessanne has earned a recording contract with Universal Music Group, and that’s where her focus turns now. “Tessanne has such original star quality to her,” said teammate Will Champlin. (His first came in season one.) As for his advice to Tessanne, he told us, “She knows. It feels good,” said coach Adam Levine of earning his second “Voice” victory. "Tumbling Down" was about the only struggle this season for the 28-year-old, who earned the public’s vote through every week of “The Voice’s” live playoffs, and who was praised by her coach and fellow finalists on Tuesday night. He added that he wrote the tune - a "nightmare," he called it, because it had to work for all three finalists - with the goal that it'd be something he could "without question pitch to an artist of the caliber of Rihanna or Kelly Clarkson." "That's the first thing she said, was, 'I connect with this song,'" the song's writer and OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder told TODAY.
Though she may not have been her usual best, the tune was one she knew would fit her.
Especially because your debut, you want it to at least be good. “Can you believe it?” she commented with a laugh. If Tessanne had any serious difficulty during the finale on Tuesday night, it was in having to perform her new single, "Tumbling Down," just moments after learning she was the champ. Because I know that iTunes is one aspect of the votes, and I know that (Jacquie Lee) is a beast and so is Will (Champlin).” “I never got that comfortable,” she told TODAY after she won. 1 on the iTunes singles chart - but those people didn’t include the singer herself. Many predicted Tessanne Chin's victory on "The Voice" - especially after her cover of Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing” Monday hit No. Her first album for the Republic label, Count on My Love, was released in July 2014."'Voice' champ Tessanne Chin: 'I was a wreck' after win" Late in the year she released the competition's winning song, "Tumbling Down," written by Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic.
She made the cut after auditioning with her version of P!nk's "Try," and as the season progressed, she joined Adam Levine's team, topped the digital charts with her versions of Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and Whitney Houston's "I Have Nothing," and finally won the competition with contestant Jacquie Lee as runner-up. In 2007, her hit Jamaican single "Hideaway" kicked off her solo career in earnest, but she was more known for her collaborations in the following years, releasing the single "Never Let Go" with superstar Shaggy, while mixing genres with the soca group Kes on their hit single "Loving You." After releasing the indie album In Between Words in 2010, old friend Shaggy encouraged her to compete on the U.S. Tessanne launched her career a few years earlier, at first leading the rock-reggae group Mile High and then joining Jimmy Cliff's band for a worldwide tour. He later built a home studio strictly for family, including Tessanne's older sister Tami, who released her debut album, Out of Many.One, on the Universal label in 2006. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, her father was in one of the island's few jazz fusion bands, E=MC2, while he was moonlighting as a soundman, and eventually, opening his own recording studio. While she was introduced to most of the world as a contestant on season five of The Voice, singer Tessanne Chin already had a successful career back home in Jamaica, charting with the reggae hit "Hideaway" and touring the globe with the legendary Jimmy Cliff.
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