“That was crazy. I feel like these women
came up here and just ripped the roof off of
the house,” Levine said. “That wasn’t even girl
power; that was something above girl power
that I don’t even understand yet.”
Shelton chimed in, saying, “In 13 seasons of
doing this show, I have never seen somebody
so wrapped up in the moment as what you displayed
for us right then, and because of that, I
gotta see some more from Katrina.”
Cyrus named Freeman as the winner of the
battle, but not before complimenting both
singers: “Both of y’all have just completely
blown the roof off,” she said.
Rose got a surprise when she walked down
to hug the coaches goodbye: as Jennifer Hudson
reached out to hug Rose, she pressed her
red button, stealing Rose for her team.
“That was insane,” Rose said of being stolen
by Hudson. “I really had had a moment where
I’d totally made peace with the fact that I was
finishing my time on ‘The Voice.’ … That look
of totally astonishment when Hudson stole
me was 100 percent genuine. I didn’t expect
it at all. I just felt so much support and love in
that moment.”
During the knockout round that aired on
Nov. 6 and 7, she faced off against Chris Weaver,
also on Hudson’s team, who sang “I Put a
Spell on You.” Rose, who has lived in Queens
for 10 years — in Jackson Heights, Woodside
and Sunnyside, in addition to Astoria — was
able to choose her own song for this round:
“Zombie” by The Cranberries.
“I wanted to show the coaches growth,
and I wanted them to see the different layers
of my voice. And so I picked a song that
meant a lot to me, but I also wanted to kind
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She got to work with not only the coaches,
but also Billy Ray Cyrus (who told Rose to “Live
your life like there is no box”) and Kelly Clarkson
(whom Rose called a “cool chick”).
“Walking in and seeing Kelly Clarkson, I
nearly peed myself. I’m fairly certain I said that
out loud, so it will be hilarious to see if that
airs,” she said, laughing.
Rose said that people from all over the
world, from Chile to Armenia, have been connecting
with her on social media, watching her
performances on YouTube and buying her
music on iTunes.
“Music is the universal connector,” she
said. “It spans over cultures, over ethnicities,
over economic background. All people
from everywhere, no matter where they are
in their life, can connect with the same exact
song in a way that’s so amazing. To actually
see that and to be on the other end of that
is very overwhelming and extremely humbling.”
Even though Rose was knocked out of “The
Voice” after the knockout round, music will always
be a part of her life, and she’s grateful for
the people she’s met, she said.
“This continues to be an amazing platform
and certainly has connected me with people
that I otherwise may have never connected
with,” she said. “These people have affected
me in a way that I don’t think they even understand.
“And that’s sort of the beautiful thing
about life, is how unexpected connections
like this can totally throw you into a new
chapter in your life and, for me, rejuvenate
things that I’d thought were long gone for
me. I didn’t know that music was still an option
as a career and now this has definitely
reignited the flame in me.”
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