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The judges on NBC’s The Voice<\/em> singing competition — Maroon 5 front man Adam Levine, country music star Blake Shelton, Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira and multi-platinum R&B artist Usher — spent the last three weeks choosing teams of performers to mentor and prepare for head-to-head competitions.<\/p>\n Among those who made the cut? Baylor sophomore Holly Tucker<\/a>.<\/p>\n A native of Lorena, Texas (less than 15 miles south of Waco), Tucker was introduced on The Voice<\/em> in this season’s third episode, including a lengthy series of shots showing her walking the Baylor campus and performing with the Golden Wave Band.\u00a0[Click here to watch Holly’s introduction and first performance<\/a>, “To Make You Feel My Love” (starting just after the 40:00 mark).]<\/strong><\/p>\n During Tucker’s blind audition, each of the four judges quickly turned their chairs — a rare occurrence on the show, demonstrating that all four wanted her on their team. After much deliberation, Tucker — who dreams of being a country star — chose to join Shelton’s team. Beginning tonight, she and the other artists will be paired head-to-head in elimination battles; if Tucker can make it through this round, then she’ll advance to knockout rounds and (hopefully) the live finals, where audience voting can play a part.<\/p>\n [MORE HOLLY: Uproar Records’ video “Introducing Holly<\/a>” || Tucker’s artist page<\/a> on The Voice<\/em> website || Get Tucker’s first Voice<\/em> performance on iTunes<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n Tucker’s experience on The Voice<\/em> isn’t her first time performing, of course; she has been singing in front of audiences since the age of 12. She even spent her freshman year as an artist with Baylor’s Uproar Records<\/a>,\u00a0recording a CD on the label and even performing on behalf of Uproar in the 2011 Baylor Homecoming Parade.<\/p>\n A Baylor legacy, Holly’s father, Johnny, mother, Cheryl, and brother, Travis, are all Baylor graduates, and Cheryl now works in the Engineering and Computer Science dean’s office. The family is hosting a watch party each night the show airs at the Applebee’s in Waco.<\/p>\n Tune in to The Voice<\/em> (Mondays and Tuesdays, 7 p.m. CT, on NBC) to see what’s next for Holly, and follow her journey\u00a0via Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0and hollytucker.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sic \u2019em, Holly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The judges on NBC’s The Voice singing competition — Maroon 5 front man Adam Levine, country music star Blake Shelton, Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira and multi-platinum R&B artist Usher — spent the last three weeks choosing teams of performers to mentor and prepare for head-to-head competitions. Among those who made the cut? Baylor sophomore Holly Tucker. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honors","category-just-for-fun","category-student-life","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}