'The Voice' Winners Girl Named Tom Reveals Big Christmas News

It's been several years since Girl Named Tom won Season 21 (December 2021) of The Voice, and they are still the only group to do so, although several others have tried, including Season 26’s trio 323 and duo MisterMoon, neither of which made it past Battles.

Now the history-making threesome—Caleb, Joshua and Bekah Liechty—is back with the release of two new holiday songs—their version of the classic “O Holy Night” and the original “Tonight is Christmas Eve”—just in time for their holiday tour, The Joy of Christmas, kicking off Nov. 21 in Nashville, Indiana, and then going coast-to-coast with 20 additional dates.

“Our tour is going be very fun, showcasing selections from our Christmas album, One More Christmas, that we released two years ago,” Bekah tells Parade. “We are always arranging new Christmas songs and infusing our style into classics, and we will be releasing two Christmas singles this November. We’re excited to tour with those.”

The original “Tonight is Christmas Eve” isn’t a standard Christmas song that paints a perfect, unrelatable picture. Rather, it demonstrates a sense of humor in doing just the opposite.

“The original is just hilarious and goofy, and it’s all about dysfunctional families during the holidays, which as siblings, we know a lot about that,” Bekah continues. “There really is no picture-perfect family.”

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Another way that Girl Named Tom is making Voice history is they still have their recording contact with Republic Records, which not many previous winners do. It’s Republic that released their Christmas music, and next year will release new music from the group.

“It’s been a long process with them and there’s been patience on both sides,” Joshua explains, “It’s an arranged marriage after The Voice, and they really supported us in our artist development. We just keep working, keep writing new songs, and we feel like we are really improving, and they agree. They see that potential and they believe in us, and so we’ve made big strides together and have some really exciting things in the works.”

And Caleb clarifies why the need for patience on both sides, explaining that understanding the label’s role in their career was one of the big challenges they faced after winning The Voice. It turned out that the record label plays a different role than the brothers and sister imagined.

“It’s more of a stand back and watch what we do,” Caleb says. “I think some Voice winners, us included, get the impression that the record label’s going to do something for us from the get-go. But really what they want to see is artists who are self-motivated, who are out there working, creating, pushing themselves and playing music in front of people. Like Josh said, the patience on both sides has been the thing keeping this thing afloat, so it’s really cool.”

The fact that Girl Named Tom makes beautiful harmonies, which is what their Voice coach Kelly Clarkson loved about them, may also have something to do with it and toward that goal, we’ll hear new music from them in 2025.

“There is something brewing,” Bekah shares. “We went into the studio in Nashville in June of this year. We’ve been working with producer Mark Needham, who is highly renowned, we feel so honored to be working with him. He has taken an interest, and he believes in what we do, which is very exciting. In 2025, there will be new music on the way.”

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During our Zoom chat, Girl Named Tom also shared how life has changed for them since winning The Voice, their continued relationship with Kelly Clarkson, the effect that constant touring has on their lives, and the highlight that has meant the most to them since winning The Voice.

It’s been two years since we last spoke. What has life been like since winning The Voice?

Bekah: Winning The Voice definitely changed our careers. We dreamed of being able to play theaters and we’ve gotten to play arenas, opening for Pentatonix on tour. We’ve been on tour pretty much ever since we set foot off the stage on The Voice and it’s been a dream. We really dreamed that music would pay the bills, and The Voice definitely has afforded us that.

Caleb: As you might know, we were touring before The Voice, and we were doing a sort of grassroots movement, gathering fans, making Girl Named Tom popular in tiny little pockets across the country. And we were excited about that as we were very slowly building something, and then The Voice...

Josh: ...expedited the grassroots process.

Caleb: It provided rocket fuel for our little ship, for our little minivan, our broken-down minivan, and gave it rocket fuel. It took us among the stars for a couple months there, as it does for the winners, but to sustain anything beyond a couple months after winning that show is very difficult. It’s a daily grind, and we don’t take it for granted that we get to continue doing it on a daily basis. We do know the challenge in front of us, it’s not easy. The Voice isn’t a free ticket to a music career, and we totally get that.

Josh: I feel like The Voice really prepped us for the work that comes after. Kelly Clarkson as well told us, regardless of the stage of your career, you’re just going to have to work your butt off, and we’ve been doing it.

Caleb: And The Voice, that fame, that couple months of fame after it, it did present a unique struggle within us because we kind of bought into it for a little bit like, “Ooh, we’re up here, we’re going to sail free for a while. This is easy, this is nice.” And now a couple years later, we’re back to that grassroots movement that I talked about earlier.

Josh: But with a much bigger base than previously, too.

You mentioned Kelly, have you stayed in touch with her? I was thinking maybe she would book you on her show for the start of your tour. Any possibilities there?

Bekah: Kelly has been so kind since The Voice. Many people who have followed our story know that we lost our father just one month after winning the show, and Kelly sent us such a kind message. Throughout the whole process, she knew what we were dealing with in our personal lives and was so kind. She’s invited on The Kelly Clarkson Show a number of times and we really want to make it work. We know that the stars will align some time when we’ve got a release coming up. We want it to be like, “All right, let’s go on Kelly Clarkson.”

Caleb: The one time we had planned to be on her show that was going to coincide with one of our releases, her show was on strike. That was during the writer’s strike. So, we’ve been in contact for sure.

What did she teach you? What did you learn? She’s not the only one you worked with, they have vocal coaches as well. What did you learn while you were on The Voice that was really good advice that you use now?

Bekah: Kelly really instilled a faith within us in our ability to make arrangements that suit our voices and suit our style. She was always encouraging us to really swell the dynamics and to include a feature where I do some high floaty thing and really showcase each individual voice. So sometimes when we’re arranging music, we hear her voice in our head and we go, “Okay, that’s Josh’s moment, that’s Caleb’s moment, I’ll do this here.” So, we really take that and...

Josh: …trust our instincts. I think a big gift that she gave was telling us what really is working and giving us more confidence in each of our individual voices and then as a whole as well. Saying, “You guys got this. You know what you’re doing, trust it.” Because what we have, nobody else has.

It’s brother and sister harmony, there’s nothing like it, right?

Josh: Yeah.

Caleb: And on the practical level, I hadn’t taken a whole lot of vocal lessons in my life, so it was super cool to take vocal lessons from amazing teachers on The Voice. As you said, there are other people, instructors and mentors other than your coach, that are on The Voice that are trying to help us be the best performers we can be, and it was really cool.

You’ve been on the road a lot since winning The Voice, is that hard on you? Can you have personal relationships? Do you get to spend time with your mom?

Caleb: Yeah, it’s hard on us in some ways, but every job has its cons, I guess. And honestly, we love the adventure of travel so much that that often outweighs the sadness of missing out on some relationships. We have cousins and friends in so many parts of the country already that getting to tour the country on a regular basis allows us to actually visit people that otherwise we wouldn’t get to see.

So, although we’re missing out on some time, I got married a year ago and we don’t get to see our mom that often, it’s harder to have friendships, it really is. And yet, we also get to add people. We’re super fortunate our fans support us in such a way that we can afford a bus, and so we can have a band and some crew, and they’re family now too.

Having a bus is definitely a step up.

Caleb: Yeah, it is.

Bekah: Yes, it is.

Josh: And each tour, we’re getting better at making it sustainable. The first couple, you’re just trying to figure it out, how can we do this? But prioritizing mental and physical health on the road is important to sustain the career, so we’re getting better at it.

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What’s been a highlight since winning The Voice? I saw you were at the Grand Ole Opry, or maybe it was opening for Pentatonix, or maybe it is different for each of you.

Bekah: I love the songwriting sessions so much. We moved to Nashville, TN, and since moving, we’ve been so inspired to further our own songwriting. We feel like we’re babies at songwriting and every room we go into, we try to learn as much as we can from the people who’ve been writing for so much longer than we have. That discovery has been awesome. I’m just so excited to get more original music out, so I would say the pursuit of cutting an album and releasing an album has been my favorite part.

Josh: I would say a highlight from this year, we played July 4th on Broadway in Nashville this last summer. It’s a huge July 4th celebration, hundreds of thousands of people come down and that was so much fun. I had a bunch of my close friends right up in the front and they were just cheering us on. It was like a big pinch-me moment that is the combination of my professional life doing music and then also my personal life kind of coming together in a big celebration of life, it was wonderful.

Caleb: This last tour we went out to Oregon and Montana, the Dakotas, Iowa, and it reminded me in so many ways of our minivan tours when it was just us three driving around in a minivan, going on hikes every once in a while. It was one of those coming together moments for me, too, where it felt like the best of both worlds almost. We do have a bus and we’re comfortable at night, and we’re getting to play for a lot more people than we used to, and also we get to have adventures and feel like kids and have a great chemistry on the bus, everyone’s getting along. That whole tour, it was called our Get a Little Lost Tour, it was really special.

Does your wife get to tour with you?

Caleb: Not very often. Every once and a while she’ll pop out and see us in a city, but I think last Christmas she came on a weekend stretch.

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