After notching up her first win on The Voice with soul singer Asher HaVon, Reba McEntire is back and ready to go for another victory in Season 26 when she will be competing against returning coach Gwen Stefani and first-time coaches Snoop Dogg and Michael Bublé.
Watch this exclusive video to get her fellow coaches fun and funny take on Reba’s approach to coaching.
“Reba is definitely the national treasure of the show,” Snoop says. “She’s a magnet for talent. She says all the right things. She is the one we fear the most and she loves bragging about how she won last year. She knows what to look for. She knows how to pick them.”
Michael adds, “I feel there’s a force that Reba McEntire has. When she looks at you with those big blue eyes and a smile that lights up a room, it is hard not to get sucked up into that tractor beam. It’s hard when almost every contestant that turns around sees Reba and goes, ‘Ooooh.’ She is this nurturing beautiful human being that it’s impossible not to love. There is nothing that’s any better than experience and she has a lot of it. She has a lot of experience to turn these people into being much better than they ever thought they could be. I think they’re really lucky when the get to be on Reba’s team.”
And Gwen, who is a winner in her own, having won Season 19 with then 15-year-old Carter Rubin, adds, “I know Reba. This is my second season with her and she’s just awesome. The longer I get to know her I get to know her taste in music, and everything. We’re becoming friends. I do know from working with her before that she’s really good at hearing stuff that maybe I don’t hear and then later on realize, ‘Wow, you knew that,’ because she’s experienced. Reba is definitely a threat to all of us. She won last season and she’s the Queen.”
And then the queen herself, who will also be starring in the NBC comedy Happy’s Place, shares her thoughts.
“I am so excited to be back for Season 26,” Reba says. “We’re having a blast. Gwen and I knew this was going to be very special with Michael and Snoop and we were right. This is my third season doing The Voice and I keep coming back because I love it. It’s fun. The camaraderie between the coaches is exciting and then to just get to sit here and listen to the talent, it blows my mind. I really do enjoy doing this show. I am always amazed at how The Voice can find so many talented wonderful people to come on the show.”
The Voice Season 26 will premiere this fall on NBC on Monday, Sept. 23, and next day on Peacock.
