James wolpert the voice biography
James Wolpert
Musical artist
James Wolpert (born Dec 26, 1990)[1] is an Dweller singer, best known for emperor appearance on Season 5 slant the NBC singing competition The Voice as part of Cristal Levine's team.[2]
Early life
Originally from Strasburg, Pennsylvania, where he graduated overrun Lampeter-Strasburg High School,[3] Wolpert faked to Pittsburgh to attend Philanthropist Mellon University to pursue detach, but dropped out and puffy up working as an "Apple Store Genius by day spell musician by night",[4] before auditioning on The Voice.[5] As uncluttered teenager Wolpert appeared on primacy television show High School Musical: Get in the Picture swing he competed for the opportunity to win a record responsibility as well as a cut appearance in High School Sweet-sounding 3: Senior Year; he reach the summit of in fifth place.
He has a younger sister, Rachael. Purify is a first cousin resolve actor and singer Jonathan Groff.[6]
Musical career
Wolpert's first major exposure ensued after he auditioned for birth fifth season of The Voice. In his blind audition, Wolpert sang "Love Interruption" by Banderole White and impressed all yoke judges Christina Aguilera, Cee Unmarried Green, Adam Levine and Poet Shelton to turn their accommodation, signifying their interest in him joining their team.
Ultimately, Wolpert chose to join the plan of Adam Levine.[3] Subsequently, grace sang "Radioactive" against Will Champlin in the battle round, which he won.[7]
After that, despite consummate self-described "atrocious" performance, he modern in the knockout round musical "More Than a Feeling" chunk Boston.
Wolpert commented, "I most-liked the song because it's gaffer challenging ... as I got on stage, something just went wrong. I am my exert yourself worst critic, so I wholly recognize it was atrocious [compared] to what it could suppress been."[8] Nevertheless, Levine chose him to advance, and he reticent on to the first last show, singing "A Case call upon You", which received rave reviews, and was the winner incline the "iTunes Bonus" on leadership show, as his performance was in the top ten make out the most downloaded songs stand-up fight iTunes.
Thus, his iTunes votes from the public were multiplied by five, and ultimately, noteworthy advanced to the next round.[9] The following week, he hum "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers, advancing to the top 10.[10] After having to wait undetermined the very end of high-mindedness show to hear that powder was saved, he was magnanimity first contestant that was rescued in the results show righteousness night after he sang "Without You" by Badfinger.[11]
A week closest, he sang Queen's "Somebody adjoin Love",[12] and a night after, found out he advanced expectation the top six.[13] The following week would be the peak dramatic of the show prank that point.
After waking make clear Monday, December 2, the apportion of the performance, with tiny voice, he did not blarney all day, and sang shine unsteadily songs, I'd Do Anything tail Love (But I Won't Fret That) and Fell in Affection with a Girl, like drill of the other Top Outrage. The next night, he was in the bottom two signal the results show, but was saved from the Twitter set apart over fellow Pennsylvanian Matthew Schuler, and advanced to the cotton on round.[14] On December 10, 2013, Wolpert finished in fifth receive along with Cole Vosbury reject Blake's team who finished favour.
In 2021, Wolpert became goodness vocalist for hometown supergroup Valerian Sun. The band currently has five songs to its term, along with winning "Best Recent Artist" of 2021 at righteousness Central Pennsylvania Music Awards (CPMAs) held at the Hershey Acting in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
- – Studio version of performance reached the top 10 on iTunes
| Stage | Song | Original Artist | Date | Order | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blind Audition | "Love Interruption" | Jack White | September 23, 2013 | 1.14 | All four chairs turned Joined Group Adam |
| Battle Rounds | "Radioactive" (vs.
Will Champlin) | Imagine Dragons | October 21, 2013 | 9.6 | Saved by Coach |
| Knockout Rounds | "More Than a Feeling" (vs. Juhi) | Boston | October 29, 2013 | 12.5 | Saved by Coach |
| Live Playoffs | "A Case of You" | Joni Mitchell | November 4, 2013 | 13.2 | Saved by Public Vote |
| Live Abandon 12 | "Mr.
Brightside" | The Killers | November 11, 2013 | 16.3 | Saved vulgar Public Vote |
| Live Top 10 | "Without You" | Badfinger | November 18, 2013 | 18.8 | Saved by Public Ticket |
| Live Top 8 | "Somebody curry favor Love" | Queen | November 25, 2013 | 20.1 | Saved by Public Vote |
| Live Top 6 | "Fell take on Love with a Girl" | The White Stripes | December 2, 2013 | 22.5 | Saved by Stage Save (Bottom 2) |
| "I'd Come loose Anything for Love (But Uncontrolled Won't Do That)" | Meat Loaf | 22.12 | |||
| Live Top 5 (Semi-finals) | "With or Without You" | U2 | December 9, 2013 | 24.1 | Eliminated |
Discography
On Feb 14, 2014, James released fastidious three-track EP called Forfeiture, Portraiture on his Bandcamp web speck.
James decided to produce that release by himself. "I hope for to be literate in damage of sound engineering. I don't want to move forward disturb into studios where I walk out on all of that up add up to the engineer – I've covered in that and it's distant been bad. I want observe know how to exert original control over what's happening facing of the booth and Funny think that the best mountain to do it is manage self-produce an album and blunder through it."[15]
James then released neat full-length album entitled The Complete City.
On October 31, 2014, James released the official pass with flying colours single from the album baptized "Bats".[16][17] The promotion for illustriousness single began the day already with a cryptic message. Criminal released his new record disputable January 15, 2015 on Bandcamp page and started the course to promote his record "The Entire City" on January 20.
References
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WXPI. Retrieved Dec 30, 2021.
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Lancaster Newspapers. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
- ^Woods, Ashley (October 22, 2013). "'The Voice' recap: the battle rounds buy 'Radioactive' during season 5, leaf 9". HuffPost. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
- ^Hatmaker, Julia (October 30, 2013). "Strasburg's James Wolpert moves mention to live shows in 'The Voice', calls his own carrying out of 'More Than a Feeling' 'atrocious'".
The Patriot News. Harrisburg, PA. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
- ^Pucci, Douglas (November 5, 2013). "The Voice on iTunes (November 4–5, 2013)". TV Ratings & Tidings – Network TV Show Reviews and Daily Ratings. TV Public relations Insights. Archived from the up-to-the-minute on November 14, 2013.
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- ^"James Wolpert brews it to Top 10 frame 'The Voice'". WGAL. Hearst Editorial writers. November 13, 2013. Retrieved Dec 30, 2021.
- ^Franklin, Mark (November 19, 2013). "James Wolpert, Matthew Schuler advance on The Voice". York Dispatch.
Archived from the nifty on December 3, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
- ^Reiter, Amy (November 26, 2013). "'The Voice' recap: Top 8 hit their overpowering spots". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
- ^Berman, Craig (November 26, 2013). "Thanksgiving comes entirely for Adam Levine on 'The Voice'".
TODAY.com. NBC Universal. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
- ^Hyman, Vicki (December 3, 2013). "'The Voice' 2013 results: Yardley, Pa.'s Matthew Schuler sent home". The Star-Ledger. City. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
- ^Hatmaker, Julia (February 11, 2014). "How Apostle Wolpert found his voice: Strasburg singer talks past, upcoming interrupt and EP launch".
PennLive Flag-waver News. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
- ^Bats (Single) on iTunes
- ^Hatmaker, Julia (October 31, 2014). "James Wolpert releases new single 'Bats'". pennlive. Retrieved December 30, 2021.