Team Bublé Artist Competes in 'The Voice' Playoffs After Heartbreaking Family Death

How Sloane Simon made it through her performance of “Good Luck, Babe” by Chappell Roan without breaking down in tears on tonight’s The Voice Season 26 Playoffs is a tribute to her professionalism or as her coach Michael Bublé said to Gwen Stefani, “What a beautiful, resilient woman she is.”

Sloane took the stage just days after losing her father to metastatic melanoma, but it was he who encouraged to continue on in the competition.

“I know how brave you are,” Michael said after her performance. “I know you and your family are going through stuff. You just lost your dad. You said you would stay because he wanted you to be here.”

“My dad told me I was crazy to turn back, so I’m here and I sang for him,” Sloane explained.

“The spirit of your father is telling me to give you a hug right now,” Snoop Dogg said, getting up from his chair to do so. Then he whispered in her ear, “It’s going to be alright. I’m so proud of you now.” Then he said for all to hear, “I had to tell you that. Let me say this to you Sister Sloane, I’m proud of you; dad’s proud of you. Thank you so much Sloane.”

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Meanwhile, Gwen was in tears as Michael finished his critique, “No. 1, I love you. No. 2, I thought your performance was marvelous. No. 3, I know your dad must be so proud of you. I can’t really express in any words how highly I think of you and how amazing I think what you’ve done today is.”

Then Michael added, “It is a testament to her strength that she’s here and I have no idea how she found the inner strength to do what she did today.”

The 20-year-old Pittsburgh native sang Natasha Bedingfield’s “Unwritten” for her Blind Audition, and elected to join Team Gwen. But when Gwen chose Sydney Sterlace over her in the Battles, Michael swooped her up.

“Michael has been fighting for me since the very beginning,” Sloane said in her video package. “He was the first coach to turn in the Blinds, my initial coach was Gwen, but I was stolen by him, I was saved by him. We’ve had a wild ride and I could not be more thankful.”

It was Michael who chose the Chappell Roan song for Sloane to sing, but she was pleased with his selection as a fan of Roan's but also because she related to the lyrics.

“The lyric ‘you have to stop the world to stop the feeling’ encapsulates how me and my family feel for my dad,” she said in rehearsals for the Playoffs, just days before her father died. “My dad isn’t doing great. His oncologist says that he has anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of weeks left. It’s tough not being with my family but he wants me to be here. My mom wants me to be here and my sister and my brother. Everybody wants me to be here because this opportunity gives them something to be excited about, too.”

During rehearsals, Playoff mentor and country singer Carly Pearce encouraged Sloane to bring what she feels to the stage “the audience wants to feel you’re human. I feel some of my truest moments are when I bring everything to the stage,” she said.

Michael shared his own trauma, “I went through my own thing when my son got sick [liver cancer] and I couldn’t get through it. I just couldn’t. Like you said [to Carly], human being. It’s a show and it’s not as big as you or as important as you. Your trajectory and your journey, this is just a part of it.”

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Sloane appreciated that Michael took the time to share what he went through with her, saying, “Michael relating to me on such a personal level was definitely very encouraging, very heartfelt. I think putting my emotions out there for the world with this song is definitely what’s going to give me a shot on going through to the Lives.”

Unfortunately, Sloane, who attends New York University, didn’t make the cut from five to two, losing out to Shye and Sofronio Vasquez, so her Voice journey ended on Tuesday night, but her new single, “Enough is Enough,” released on Oct. 25 for fans who want to hear more from her.

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