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Anna McElroy is one of the Top 13 artists remaining on The Voice. It’s a great accomplishment for the country singer, who moved to Nashville back in 2020 to pursue her music dreams. McElroy talked to Deepest Dream about her journey on The Voice and how resilience and a strong faith has paved the way to her success. Check out our full interview with McElroy, who is a member of Team Kelly, below!
Read more: Anna McElroy Talks ‘The Voice,’ Working Three Jobs, And Pursuing Her DreamsFor her Blind Audition, Anna McElroy performed the Maren Morris hit “80’s Mercedes,” and she nailed that performance out of the park. Although she and Riley Green hail from Alabama, McElroy chose Kelly Clarkson over Green and Queen Latifah as her coach.
So it was really, really fun to experience people fighting over me, and Kelly Clarkson being one of the best vocalists of all time pretty much being like, ‘I want you,'” said McElroy. “‘I wanna work with you. I see something in you.’ That was like, all right, I’m not chasing a dream for nothing. I’m here for a reason, and I was given this God-given talent and gift for a reason, and somebody’s noticing it now.”
Kelly Clarkson’s belief in McElroy continued through Battles, as she picked her over fellow Team Kelly member Johnnie Kapua after their stirring performance of the Teddy Swims/Maren Morris track “Some Things I’ll Never Know.” After advancing to Cut Week, McElroy did get emotional after her win.
“Johnnie did become like an older brother to me, and when I watched it back, I was still crying and I was still like, ‘No, this is so not fair,'” said McElroy. “Johnnie is so good, so talented (and) he deserves to be here just as much as I do. And think that was the hardest thing.”
All the knowledge and insight McElroy has gained from The Voice should continue to help in her music journey. That said, McElroy wanted to be clear that being a professional singer/songwriter is not all glitter and gold.
“What you post on social media is not always accurate,” added McElroy. It’s like you’re posting all these fun highlights and everything that you’re doing. At this point I work, you know, three jobs. I have two serving jobs and I’m squeezing in some gigs on the side. But outside of that, I’m still writing music (and) I’m still trying to record my music. I’m still trying to connect and network in Nashville. There’s so much hard work that you put in to make money (and) to afford doing music whenever you’re not in a position to just pay to record songs. It’s really expensive to do all that stuff. And so it really is all in the grind, and I think that people forget how hard you actually work to give yourself time to work on your dream.”
McElroy is also a huge fan of The Voice, and she posted on her socials a clip from ten years ago celebrating the show with her friends. She sees her time on the show as a “full circle” moment. “I have a lot of gratitude,” said McElroy. “I think the Lord put me here for a reason and that he’s . . . every time I wanted to quite, he’s that voice in my head that’s like ‘You don’t wanna do that – just keep going.’ I genuninely don’t know any other better way to describe how I’m feeling othern than reasurrance for all the doubt that I had for myself over the years and everything, and knowing that God’s got me.”
Full interview with Anna McElroy:
