'The Voice' Crowns a Season 27 Winner

On Tuesday's grand finale of the 27th season of The Voice, the music reality show grownups adore, Adam David, 34, won the contest, and promptly burst into tears. It was a victory all the sweeter for being unexpected by many, since it was only a few weeks ago that fans rescued him from being kicked out of competition by giving him the online "Instant Save" vote. Pundits on TVLine had predicted he'd come in fourth. He called himself "the underdog," and this dog certainly had his day.   

The music reality show is particularly beloved by people over 50 (in 2024, the median viewer was just under 65 years old), perhaps because the young hopefuls bring new life to tunes grownups remember vividly from their youth, and they identify with the kids' older, wiser coaches, who are mostly pushing 50 — and in Season 28, the average age of coaches Snoop Dogg, 53, Niall Horan, 31, Reba McEntire, 70, and Michael Bublé, 49, will be 50.75.  In a move many AARP members would approve, Adam David said that to celebrate his big win, he planned to "have dinner with my mom." Maybe he'll sing her favorite song for her, the Beatles' "Blackbird."

Singer-songwriter/guitarist David nabbed the victory as part of singer Michael Bublé’s increasingly winning team, beating fellow Bublé teammate Jadyn Cree, who was the runner-up, Jaelen Johnston (third place, Team Ballerini), Lucia Flores Wiseman (fourth place, Team Levine) and RENZO (fifth place, Team Legend).

David belted out Joe Cocker's heartrending 1974 rock ballad "You Are So Beautiful," "Hard Fought Hallelujah" by Brandon Lake & Jelly Roll, and the Band's 1968 classic "The Weight," a duet performance with Bublé’.

As a result of his Season 27 win, David will receive a music recording contract, and American Songwriter has claimed that winners also get a $100,000 cash prize.

The Florida native started his musical journey by listening to the songs his folks loved, and by playing the guitar, professionally since 2008. He has opened for Gary Clark Jr. and the Black Crowes. A former addict, he’s been clean for five years and considers music central to his healing process. He performs at rehabilitation centers weekly, sharing his music and experiences to inspire others in their recovery.

Bublé recently spoke to Parade about David’s grit and determination throughout the entire season.

Michael Buble with Adam David, Winner of 'The Voice' Season 27

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“I am going to tell you right now, I have nothing to do with it,” Bublé said, “Zero. We're friends. I'm not his coach; I'm not his teacher. He's a killer musician. He knows exactly what he's doing. He has all the talent and ambition in the world. I think more than anything, he needed a partner, a friend to help sometimes lift him up when he was having doubts.”

He also touched on the exact moment he knew David was the person he should have on his team.

“No joke, I remember distinctly there being about 15 or 10 seconds left on the clock as Adam’s Blind Audition song ["Baby I Love Your Way"] was winding down and I was saying to the other coaches, ‘Please don’t turn, don’t turn.’ I didn’t want him to get stolen,” Bublé explained. “Then, when it happened, the second I got him, I ran backstage and I said, ‘I just got my guy on my team.’”

David’s victory marks back-to-back wins for Bublé as a coach on the popular television show.

In December 2024, Sofronio Vasquez won Season 26 of The Voice under Bublé. Vasquez sang the 1969 Jackson 5 hit “Who’s Lovin’ You,” by Smokey Robinson, 84. At one point in the show, Vasquez, who grew up in poverty, confessed that he feared few in America would love him when he immigrated from his childhood home, the Philippines: “Being in America, I thought I would not be welcome.” Evidently he was wrong.

Vasquez was the odds-makers' favorite, with TVLine.com giving him a 33 percent chance of winning and Shye a 27 percent chance. The other three – Sydney Sterlace (third), Danny Joseph (fourth) and Jeremy Baloate (fifth) – all had winning probability gauged in the teens or below.