Alisan Porter has been singing since she was 5 years old. There have been many ups and downs since then: appearances on Star Search, an early career as a child actor, battles with alcoholism and substance abuse, getting sober, becoming a mother, making a name for herself both in the blogosphere and on Broadway, and the release of her debut pop rock album in 2009 (available on CD Baby).
Last week saw another milestone. She won season 10 of The Voice, NBC’s popular music competition. Big congrats to Alisan — and also to Laith Al-Saadi, another CD Baby artist that placed 4th on this season’s competition, and who performed his original music on the show.
Here’s a clip of Alisan slaying “Blue Bayou” on her blind audition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh7lT_xEY_U
Chris Robley is an acclaimed singer-songwriter and award-winning poet from Maine.
His Beatlesque indie-pop and milltown Americana songs have been praised by The Associated Press, No Depression, KCRW, The LA Times, Boston Globe, NPR, American Songwriter, and others.
His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Poetry Review, and more.
Robley has received a Maine Literary Award in Poetry, Boulevard’s Emerging Writers Prize for Poetry, and in 2016 was selected by former US-poet laureate Robert Pinsky as a finalist for the Dorset Prize.