‘The Voice’ coach Snoop Dogg saves contestant with Coach Replay button

Snoop Dogg had a particular connection to a contestant who did not get a chair activate The Voice season 26’s second week of blind auditions on Monday.

After Gail Bliss, 61, carried out a rousing cowl of the SteelDrivers’ “If It Hadn’t Been for Love,” Snoop advised her “The spirit of my mom is in you proper now.” The “Drop It Likes It is Sizzling” rapper added that, “My mom’s sister’s identify was Gail, which was certainly one of my favourite aunties.”

Snoop’s mom, Beverly Tate, died in October 2021.

Later, he defined that Bliss “had a glance about herself, that it regarded like she was a rattling famous person.”

The recording artist’s fingers had hovered over his buzzer all through Bliss’ efficiency, however he did not push it. Not one of the coaches did. After the judges’ chairs rotated to face the rejected singer and so they heard extra about her, Snoop defined that he had this season’s new addition — a Coach Replay button — to make use of, and he’d be utilizing it.

Bliss, the season’s oldest competitor, was ecstatic and bounced with pleasure. Hailing from South Carolina, she defined in her introduction that she’s a flight attendant who’s been singing professionally for many years. Auditioning for The Voice was on her bucket listing.

Snoop’s fellow coaches, Gwen Stefani, Michael Bublé, and Reba McEntire, did not flip their chairs round both. Snoop mentioned he had held again throughout her tune, as a result of he thought McEntire was going to spin.

“My mom’s household is all in you proper now,” Snoop mentioned as he draped a Group Snoop necklace round her neck.

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When host Carson Daly Carson requested what Snoop’s mom was saying to him with Bliss, he answered: “You want this lady in your crew. You want some knowledge.”

Simply off his protection of the 2024 Olympics, the music famous person mentioned that he had a chill in his physique.

“Snoop could be essentially the most unlikely alternative for me, however proper now, he’s my angel,” Bliss mentioned. “And I am a  sponge, and I’m able to go.”

The “Gin and Juice” rapper advised the opposite coaches that’s was his mom’s “southern hospitality roots and DNA in me that is connecting all of us.”

The competitors returns Monday, Oct. 7, with extra blind auditions.