Mikenley Brown's Ethereal Blind Audition Mesmerized The Voice

Mikenley Brown, 19, from New Castle, Indiana, performed a slowed-down version of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" on The Voice: Battle of Champions, leaning into her voice's natural quality and quickly earning chair turns from Adam Levine, Kelly Clarkson and John Legend — a Triple Chair Turn.

"For my Blind Audition, I’m singing 'Teenage Dream' by Katy Perry," Brown said before taking the stage. "I’m making the song my own by starting it off a little slower. I’m adding some runs and I have a little bit more of a raspy voice than she does. People usually think that I’m a country artist, actually, and I’m not." Levine admitted, "I didn’t even recognize the song at first.

You’re tasteful, you have an ethereal quality to what you do." Clarkson praised, "Your tone is incredible, you have these little yodel effects in your voice," and Legend suggested, "That’s the Indiana." Brown agreed: "It is.

United States, New Castle, Indiana

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