Jake Hoot is back on The Voice, returning for Season 29 of the NBC singing competition, now titled The Voice: Battle of Champions. The new season premieres Monday, February 23 at 9/8c and will stream the next day on Peacock.
Hoot’s return brings him back to the stage that made him a national name. He won Season 17 in 2019 as a member of Kelly Clarkson’s team, and his run included performances of the Eagles’ Desperado and Morgan Wallen’s Cover Me Up during the Knockouts.
Since that win, Hoot has kept working. In 2020, he released Tennessee Strong after the EF4 tornado that hit Cookeville, Tennessee, and donated the proceeds from downloads and streams to the Middle Tennessee Emergency Response Fund. That same year he also put out Dangerous Thing, Best Job I Ever Had, Nadine and a La Bamba cover with Ricky Duran.
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He followed that with the 2021 EP Love Out of Time, which included the duet I Would’ve Loved You with Clarkson. In 2022, he released the duet Wherever Time Goes with his wife, Brittany, later telling Country Now that the song was inspired by the idea that time becomes more precious with age. He also released Had It to Lose and B4U that year, then Endless and I Can Take Care of You in 2023.
Hoot’s catalog has continued to grow with holiday releases including Feliz Navidad, It Wouldn’t be Christmas, When Christmas Had Come and Gone with The Tenors, and Mary’s Boy Child. More recently, he released Demons in 2025 and Sometimes I Do with Becca Bowen in 2026.
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The new Voice season is being billed as the show’s first-ever three-Coach lineup and an All-Star Showdown, with Clarkson joined by Adam Levine and John Legend. That gives Hoot a familiar face in Clarkson, but also a different kind of competition than the one he won in 2019. He arrives without a full album of country hits behind him, but with a steady stream of singles and collaborations that show he has stayed active. The question now is not whether Hoot can sing; it is whether the artist who won once can make the format work for him again.
