How right was the critic? New York Times when he wrote that Kelly Clarkson’s voice had “the soul of a mermaid.” She said it decades ago, when the singer with a soprano voice stood out in the first promotion of that phenomenon called American Idol. Then came the albums, the tours, the Grammys, fame, dabbling as an actress, her time in The Voice (the US version of The voice). And so, one success after another, gaining followers bewitched by the song of this siren until she was placed at the head of her program, The Kelly Clarkson Show, the big winner of the Emmy Awards for daytime programming. A total of seven statuettes in a single year, including Best talk show and Best presenter. More Emmy Awards in a single year than the three Grammys which he has won for an entire recording career that includes albums like Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) either break away and of course more statuettes in one fell swoop than the hitherto queen of this television format, Ellen DeGeneres, who was not even nominated in this edition.
Clarkson did not attend the gala of this highest television distinction that took place at the Pasadena (California) convention center on June 24. It wasn’t arrogance on the part of a star with her feet firmly planted on the ground and for whom, as she always says, her only dream is to sing. “It was all she wanted, to sing. In a choir it was enough for me. Then life, God or whatever had other plans for me, ”she acknowledged a few years ago to EL PAÍS. The singer is on vacation for the first time in 16 years, she has confessed, along with her children River Rose, eight, and Remington Remy Alexander, six, and not even her official coronation as queen of the talk show He changed his family rest plans.
A vacation of jeans and T-shirts, without makeup and going unnoticed, as she likes off camera, before launching herself into the new challenge of her career: inheriting the prime time slot from DeGeneres now that Ellen DeGeneres Show has concluded its presence on television after 19 seasons. Times of change for this 40-year-old performer and artist born in Texas who for decades admired her predecessors, “Ellen, Oprah”, and whose desire for the program, the one she leaves behind and the one she now wants to renew, is the to show a kinder and better face of humanity, “that for the rest there is already the news, which is depressing”.
New program and new life. Clarkson not only says goodbye to her participation in the game show The Voice, but can finally say goodbye to her former agent and her husband, Brandon Blackstock. It has taken them two years to divorce the stepson of fellow singer Reba McEntire. She made it difficult for him until the end, when she barricaded herself in the ranch in Montana (USA) that Clarkson bought years ago for just over 10 million dollars (9.8 million euros) and where the then couple spent the pandemic. . Throwing him out cost the singer 1.25 million euros tax-free, in addition to 5.12% of the value of the mansion, the 109,000 euros per month of spousal support that he will have to give her until 2024 and the almost 43,000 euros per month for child support until they come of age, children Blackstock has no custody of and can only see once a month.
The figures are high, but so are the more than 21 million euros that Clarkson earns annually as a result of her work both as a singer and as a presenter. A price that she has not cared pay to be called Kelly Brianne again, her first name that she has adopted personally, as when she was “that girl that nobody noticed until she sang”, as she likes to describe herself. Professionally, she will continue to be Clarkson because, as she told the press, after 20 years of success she is a little late to change it.
Nor does he plan to change his style. Both personally and professionally, music is everything to her. Personally, she was her refuge during these two years of divorce, using her songs, her own or others, to process her emotions, as demonstrated by the punches she threw at hers. now her ex-husband for his interpretation of Happier Than Ever, changing the lyrics of the Billie Eilish theme. And professionally, The Kelly Clarkson Show it would not be what it is without the siren’s song that is heard in its kellyoke, that karaoke so much his own in which more than 500 classic songs and something more recent, pop or rock, have already been interpreted throughout three seasons of the program. “This is how I started Showsinging a minute and a half or two of the artists that I love before highlighting the people who inspire me, or have inspired me, and thus get that connection with the public, something not unlike what I do on tour ” , then described his television technique.
To know how your program will change from September, we will have to wait to see it. Her positioning in the time slot occupied by Ellen DeGeneres until now is more than just a change in the television grid. It is a declaration of principles that wants to carry the spirit of American Idol to format talk show so in need of reform so that, as NBC hopes, it connects “with people of all ages, cultures and backgrounds.” As Clarkson’s sweet yet confident voice did two decades ago in American Idol.
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