Kendra Checketts Biography
Kendra Checketts is an aspiring singer from San Diego, California, who is a contestant in season 16 of The Voice Blind Auditions which premiered on February 25, 2019.
Kendra Checketts Age
Kendra is 19 years old as of 2019.
Kendra Checketts Early Life | Kendra Checketts San Diego
Kendra was born to American parents. She grew up in hometown San Diego and currently lives there with her parents. While growing up, she loved acting and often performed mimicries in front of her parents. Her singing talent was exposed while performing in a school talent show during her fourth grade.
Kendra later became more inclined to music after her father suffered a brain hemorrhage which left him hospitalized for a whole year. She began singing to boost her father’s spirit and used to play piano in the hospital lobby to cheer him up. She later began rehearsing songs and she performed in local events whenever she had the chance. Kendra has helped raised over $80,000 for various charities through her singing.
At the age of 11, she co-produced her first single titled Wind Across the Water. Kendra began producing songs of her own and she had multiple releases on Apple Music and Spotify by 2017. her most successful single is I’m Not Sober, which has been streamed over 330,000 times on Spotify.
By early 2019, Kendra had five singles. She found a wider audience after appearing in the season 16 of The Voice.
Kendra Checketts The Voice Blind Auditions
For her first audition, Kendra sang Sober by Demi Lovato. She impressed the judges but it was judge Blake who couldn’t put his hands off the buzzer. She ended up in Blake Shelton’s team. Kendra was highly praised for her mind-blowing singing in The Voice.
She told the voice viewers that she has always been a fan of The Voice. “The show, in general, is so amazing whether it be the producers, hair and makeup, wardrobe, literally everyone on the team is so sweet. They are such genuine people which is why I love the show so much.”
About the song, Sober, she said, “Although I don’t relate to the song in the way she sings it, it was so cool being able to put my own take on it. Demi is such an amazing artist and her music moves people. I was hoping to do the same during my blind audition. Singing this song for me was more of a tribute to her than anything else. She has always been one of my favorite artists and supporting her through her hard times is something I would do in a heartbeat. ”
Kendra also said that she is planning on releasing her debut album once the show is over. “I would describe it as dark, R&B, pop. I take a lot of influence from older songs and artists like Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, and even old jazz. I do like to put an R&B twist on pop music to introduce more of the younger community to older music. When it comes to the dark side of my songs, I love incorporating weird sounds and I guess you could say electro-pop in my songs as well. Sort of a creepy Billie Eilish vibe!”