Country artist Jake Hoot made the leap from local Tennessee singer/songwriter to mainstream country crooner after being crowned the season 17 winner of the popular American talent competition The Voice. His self-penned debut single, the coronation-winning "Better Off Without You," was released in December 2019, and was followed in 2020 by an appearance at the Grand Ole Opry.
A native of Cookeville, Tennessee, Hoot grew up with Missionary parents as one of nine siblings, and moved to the Dominican Republic at the age of nine where he spent the next decade. It was there that h...