Sloane Simon wears her heart on her sleeve.
On Tuesday, November 26, Simon brought all four coaches Vote to tears when she admitted that her father had died in the days leading up to her performance.
For the playoff round, Simon, 20, took the stage to perform Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” and left the coaches in awe, including her coach Michael Bublé.
I know how brave you are, said Bublé after the performance. “I know you and your family are going through things. You just lost your dad.”
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The singer (49) added: “You said you would stay because he would want you to be here.”
Simon then said her dad told her she would be “crazy to come back” so she “sang for him”.
“Your father’s spirit is telling me to hug you right now,” Snoop Dogg said, rising from his chair to hug her. “I’m so proud of you right now.”
Bublé then gave Simon feedback — and even though he was a fan of Simon’s performance, he selected two other contestants on his team to move on to live performances, which meant Simon’s time on Vote it’s over now.
“No. 1, I love you. No. 2, I thought your performance was great. No. 3, I know your dad must be very proud of you,” he said. “I can’t tell you how highly I think of you and how amazing I think what you did today.”
He added in a one-on-one chat: “For her to be here is a testament to her strength and I have no idea how she found the inner strength to do what she did today.”
Sloane Simon, Michael Buble, Gwen Stefani, Reba McEntire, Snoop Dogg.
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Earlier in the episode, Simon revealed that her father’s oncologist said he had “a few days to a few weeks” left to live.
“It’s hard not to be with my family, but he wants me to be here. My mom wants me to be here, my sister and my brother, they all want me to be here because this opportunity, being here, gives them something to be able to be excited,” she said.
According to her official The Voice bio, Simon started playing guitar at age 8, when her parents bought her an instrument to help distract her from her mother’s battle with aggressive spinal cancer. Although her mother went into remission, the cancer returned and she recently underwent surgery. Around the same time, her father was also diagnosed with late-stage cancer.
When it came time for Bublé to choose his two contestants for the live shows, the singer said he felt “really lucky” that they chose him.
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He ended up choosing Sofroni Vasquez and Shye over Simon.
Next week, Sting — who has been Gwen Stefani and Snoop’s megamentor this season — will return to the show to play bass while the finalists perform duets to his songs.
Jan Dan and Adam Bohanan will perform “Roxanne,” Vasquez and Jeremy Beloate will perform “Every Breath You Take,” Shye and Sydney Sterlace will perform “Fields of Gold,” and Danny Joseph and Christina Eagle will perform “If You Love Somebody Set Them Free.”
Vote airs Mondays and Tuesdays on NBC at 8:00 PM ET and is available to stream on Peacock the following day.
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