February 12, 2025 • 16 mins
Fresh off his chair turning performance in the Blind Auditions of this season of The Voice. Hayden Grove stops by to chat about his experience, his honing his craft, and also what that R necklace is all about.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To share my show and it's how we don't know it.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome man, Thank you man, I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Oh of course, congratulations, thank you so much. So, I
mean we all know that didn't happen live. How long
have you been sitting on this news and how much
is it driven you crazy?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It has been the most it's been in the grand
scheme of things. It is not at all difficult, you know,
people are dealing with real problems. But it was hard.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
It was very hard.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I mean it felt like I've said this something four
or five times already, but it felt like I was
you know those bubbles that you see at sports games
that like people like hit each other with. Have you
ever have you seen that?
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Oh yeah, like the ones you're in And yeah, I've
always wanted to do one of those.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, me too. But it felt like I was doing
it because like I couldn't let anybody get too close,
Like I just like bounce off, be like yeah, bounce off.
Like people ask me, what are you doing, I'm like
just nothing, oh, just like that. So I just feel
like I felt like I was kind of this bubble.
But it's been it was over the summer, so it's
been a long time.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well so I I used to live in a long
time ago. But my first I was there for the
first round of the Blinds because I had someone who
worked at NBC. Oh, so the very first this is
them learning how to do the show. So that was
in the summer and like yeah, and then I finally
saw it in like after the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I'm like, oh wow, Yeah, that was forever ago. So
you just had to sit.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Had to sit and just bubble boy.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Feel the lawyers breathing down your.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Neck something like that. Man. Yeah, yeah, it's it's been
a relief for sure. And it was a lonely time
to be honest, because you're not supposed to tell a
lot of people, and you kind of just got to
keep it your you know, your close knit group.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
So and you and you have to go back to
your normal life.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah right right, yeah, I mean, which.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Is that's got to be the weirdest part because you've
got the most exciting news in the world probably, i mean, yeah,
top five moments of your life probably, yeah, probably.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah. I don't have kids, I'm single, I haven't been married,
so yeah, but we'll.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
See if we can fix that.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
But yeah, exactly, so that's I mean, yeah, it's either
one or two for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Wow, that's all.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So so I we all saw it. We loved it.
I mean you came on like we were all watching.
I was watching it.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I'm like, what is Bouble doing?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
What is he?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Why is this not his dear? And then I felt
like Kelsey knew as well. Did she know that like
Bob because she even said at one point, I don't
know if I'm assuming you've watched him.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Oh yeah, I've watched it, and like I can't I
can't watch the whole thing. I just watched a little pit.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
But I saw, like you saw her say, hey, he's
not gonna do it? Like how how do you think
she knew?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
There was a look on his face like the so
the crazy part. I knew everything about that moment, and
there was stuff that they didn't show, which was really cool.
But I knew everything except for what they said when
the chairs were turned right because I couldn't see. I
can't see. Yeah, So that was the most interesting thing
to me to be like, Okay, here's what like, here's
what they're saying. And the minute Michael like Michael like
turned like this and and he went like he was
(02:41):
like great voice.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Something like that, so he knew that that's what he knew.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I think that's when he he might have known it
was me, I think, but again that's that's for him
to know, not for me to know.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And I then then what happened next is something I
don't think I've ever seen on that show. Is he
just and I mean this is a compliment he nerded
out about why Adam was for you. Explain that to me,
because I think I got it, but it didn't make
full sense in my brain why he thought Adam was
better for you than for him.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Because I think I do know the genre really well. Yeah,
I do know the jo like I. I think that's
why he followed me. I think that's why he he
understood My passion for the music is right alongside his.
And he's older and he's more experienced in it, but
he knows that like I have the foundation. So I
think it was more so that he felt like I
could get something a little different from Adam and like,
you know, something that maybe brings me more into Like again,
(03:31):
it's all about versatility, Like I don't want to be
sitting here as only a guy who does standards and
only guy who does this kind of music. I want to,
you know, do that for sure, But then you know,
I do want to branch out and do some other
more you know, modern things and elevate the music and
energize the music in a different direction. So yeah, I
think Adam can give me a little bit of an
edge and a little bit of that kind of hardcore
(03:52):
kind of coolness that he has.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
That that's swagger.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
That's swagger. Oh Booble's got swagger. But Adams is just
like a more it's a different thing.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I would I mean, I would say the main difference
between boob Blay and Lavine is you don't see Booblay
taking his shirt off on stage. Yeah, you know what,
I apologize. I've never seen him live. Yeah maybe he does.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Oh you've never seen Michael live. Man, That's that's a treat, dude.
He's the best live. He he gives it everything, man.
But no, I've never seen him take a shirt off
at a show. He puts he puts hockey jerseys on sometimes, Okay,
so he's he's adding clothings instead of putting taking it off.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
So I mean, so it's been it's been all this time.
People have known.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
How have you had anyone reach out of former contestants
or have you have you gotten any life hacks yet
from people who have been in this before.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Or like oh like from previously, from.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Previous or or anyone, like, hey, this is this is
the way you don't want to go because, like you said,
to win this competition, you don't you don't want to
go through and just do what you normally do.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
You have to find a way to stand out.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, in certain ways, and so but still being true
to yourself at the same time.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I admittedly I haven't like I haven't necessarily talked to
anybody who's done it in the past. But like season
twenty six and twenty seven we filled him at the
same time. Okay, so we bounced stuff off each other,
but what we're going through it at the same time.
So it's like they really weren't. We were all. It
was all kind of like a big group doing it together.
So I really didn't know. I kind of you kind
of go and blind. Like I think some of my
fellow contestants had friends that had been there and done that, sure,
(05:14):
so like they've talked to them, but no, man, we're
just just flying by the seat pants.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Did you go into it watching it in the in
previous seasons, like all right, I need this is I
know what I do right, and this is this is
how I'm gonna do it differently to stand out where
there any any tactics or strategies to.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Try to employ. Is just I'm gonna sing the best
and perform the best.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That was my thing. That was my thing throughout the
whole thing. It was like, just focus on the music. Yeah,
focus on the music, Focus on doing your best, the
best version of the song you can the best. You know.
Really they harp on you know, they do a lot
of vocal lessons and things to like get you ready,
like they really take care of you. So I was
focused on that and I was learning things. And I've
continued to learn things since, you know, since the summer.
(05:57):
So it's been it's been a remarkable experience. But Yeah,
in the past, I hadn't watched Yeah. And it's not
because I didn't love the idea of the show and
I didn't love the show. It's because I was in
my head like I watched those people, I'm like, I'm like, oh,
they're better than me. Why should I even try like,
why should I even go up there and do that? Like,
and then I'm sitting here today and I think it
was the best idea in the world to watch it,
because I don't know if I would have ever done it.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
It was pre impostor syndrome, if you will, pre imposter syndrome.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
So I knew you.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You grew up in Florida, you have family here, you
ended up coming here after college at OSU, right stay.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Yeah, So in that time learning.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
This music, falling in love with this music, had you
had any formal training to what?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
What did you do like growing up? How old were you?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah? So I started my first kind of foray into music.
There was like this boys singing group that like the
auditioned our whole class in third grade and I was
I was one of two people that made it. So
so that was choral music and classical music, you know,
just kids stuff. But then fifth grade, I think my
parents were like, do you love you seem to love me?
(07:00):
Do you want to like take voice lessons? And I
was like sure, Like I didn't know what that meant,
Like how do you take voice? Like you just sing?
What do you mean voice lessons? Yeah? But then I
had my first voice teacher. I was like, oh, okay,
this is what it's about. And that was at that
same time I was kind of figuring out this music
that I love this music, and I remember my voice
teacher was like what, like what do you want to sing?
And I was like, I want to sing this song.
(07:20):
It was like come fly with me or something, and
she like started playing and I started singing. She's like, oh,
now I get like this is it, Like this is you?
And I'm like, yeah, this has been me and like
so since then, it's just my first I sang Mac
the Knife, the same song I sang on the show
in the sixth grade Talent show the year after, and
since then it's just been that's been my thing.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So how did you discover outside of you know, hearing
this music, hearing the legends and this, you know, the
what is the brand actually the genre actually called because
I just call it crooner.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, there there is no name for the genre now, okay,
is no name for the genre because it's not jazz.
It's not jazz, it's not pop, it's it's it's just
it's a thing. Yeah, crooner music, I guess. But like
there's got we got to figure out a new name
for it.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Maybe that maybe that'll be your contribution.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
That'll be my contribution. We got to figure out a
name for it because like people just like, oh, boo blah,
I love his music. What is it? He doesn't even know.
He says jazz pop kind of thing, like, but he
said multiple times like I don't like, there's there's not
really a name for the genre. So were I love
to call it great music?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, no, and it's and it's it's super talented, and
it's it's clearly its home thing. Yeah, it's not like
anything else. Do you remember the first first song that
you heard, They're like, oh, this is this is a
genre I want to dive deeper into.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yes, I remember rummaging through my parents CD collection. My
parents were my dad was very musical. He played piano,
he sang, and he loved more classical music. And my
mom was kind of a child of the sixties, seventies,
eighties where she kind of she was a huge Michael
Stanley fan. She was like a Michael Stanley legend and
right she like follows I don't know if she followed him,
but like she loved Michael Stanley. So but then Bruce
(08:57):
Springsteen was her favorite, Bob Dylan, Like, so I think
I kind of just found the middle of classical music
and Bruce Springsteen and hit it right in the middle
of Sinatra. So, uh, I listened to Harry Conic and
then I'll never forget. I was singing watching the Rockefeller
Tree lighting. Uh on NBC shadow Hey ding ding ding
ding ding ding exactly, and uh, and he was there
(09:19):
was this song playing. It was let Snow and he's
turned around and this guy's got spiky hair and he's
like doing all this stuff like that's it. I don't
know what it is, but that's it. And it was
Boublet and that was kind of the start of it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
So this this uh, this silky the voice that you've
developed over the years. You how did you stumble upon it?
Was it just replicating what you heard?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Did you? Or did it?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Did you just sing Mary had a little lamb and
it sounded like Frank Sinatra?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
No, I mean, uh yeah, like I said with my
voice teacher, it just kind of fit. It just was
it just fit like before before my voice dropped, Yeah,
like before I hit puberty, Like I was singing Adam
Levine's songs because they were in that because Adam is
a really nice, high kind of voice, and like if
it for me. So I was singing she Will be Loved,
I was singing this love. I was singing Sunday Morning,
(10:05):
and like that's what I was blarning through my speakers.
But then when like my voice dropped and I started
to love with this music, It's just it's it was destiny.
I feel like I've said a million times now, but
I feel like God had his hand all over this thing.
And I praise him and bless him because I praise
him that he's blessed me because it just it is.
It's divine. There's nothing else there's I've worked really hard
(10:26):
to develop my craft. Yeah, but like but.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You got to start somewhere. It doesn't just it doesn't
just come out like that. There's there's a little nugget
exactly that comes out. And then you have, you know,
someone a great mentor, like if your first voice teacher, like,
oh that's the direction we need to go to. Let's
let's travel down that road.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, but he gave me the the original gift and yes,
then you then you work as hard as you can
to better that I've tried my best, for sure.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So we've got knockouts to the next round, right, no
battle battle, that's it.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
It's been a minute since I watched it. But now
that we've got.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
A Cleveland guy, yeaheah, yeah, I'm dialed in. So the
battles are next a couple a couple more weeks. It'll
be about a month, about a month out, yeah yeah,
and then we'll get to find out you're the next
step in your journey.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah man. But until then, I mean, we got to
fill up team Adam. There's some great some great people.
You're gonna see them. Man, I've gotten to know so
many beautiful, wonderful people like you get to see my friends,
which is crazy, like I've I remember like the first
week watching them was so much fun. I was like, man,
this is amazing. And then obviously this week has been amazing.
But yeah, of course, but I like to see your
friends do it. It's just like the people you shared
(11:32):
every day with and you know, got to know and
you know, it was like a big my friend Barry,
you'll see him he is he auditioned. He uh. He said.
It's like a big summer camp for adults where you're
all and you all love music and like you get
to you don't have really counselors. But like, I don't know,
it's just like the biggest band camp.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Cool big, it's like a big group mind experiment.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, something like that. Man, it's it's awesome. It was
so much fun.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
What do you And I'm trying to get it without
because obviously you're not allowed to spoil anything, but is
is it? Is it spoiler to tell us something Adam
taught you vocally how to do that you didn't know how.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
To do before you started.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Again, you don't have to say a specific song or anything,
but a technique or something that you didn't have before
that you now have in the toolbox.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Not that I not that I can think of or
want to say.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Okay, oh I like it though, I want to say
that's a little bit like hey, you gotta like yeah
you hang on, Yeah, you don't know what's gonna come
maybe maybe maybe you're gonna jump on and all of
a sudden here comes not like us, I don't know
what's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
We never know, we never know.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Maybe maybe yeah, yeah, I liked you know, I love
the fact that it was so hard to keep everything
a secret. Oh yeah, but like now it's like a
little spicy, like okay, you know, I can't say it,
but like now you gotta now you're hooked.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, let go, you gotta watch I do the last
thing I want to ask you. Uh, the the our necklace?
What is that?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Great? Great? Great? That is my ex girlfriend? Okay, she
we had. I had the the our necklace on for her.
We are still close, we're still good friends. We're not together,
but we were. I still have a lot of love
her if her name is Rachel. So yeah, that was
the our necklace?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
And wait were you together last? Yes? And since then?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yes? Since then?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Interesting?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yes, she is a wonderful person. And uh no, it's yeah,
that's the one thing. Even my friends were like, my
friends are like, sell the art necklace.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
She went with it.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I was like, that was the time we were together. Yeah,
of course I did, Like she wasn't you know. I
didn't get to take her to the blind audition because
I have my parents. So I was like, I'm going
to take a piece of you know, I'm going to
take the art with me. So yeah, I don't have
any regrets, and I love it.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
You're you, You become the person you are from your past,
right exactly, That's how I say it.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
And people always like delete their Instagram, like when all
are I don't delete it. This part of my life,
it's happened. Yeah. And then and she's still part of it.
She's still, like I said, she's the kindest person. We
are still good friends. And I have no regrets about
wearing R No, no regret.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Ah he did there, see what he did?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
All right?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Well, I mean obviously we've got, like you said, about
another month of the battles. Obviously you're you're here, You're
in town. Where can we find you in the meantime?
Online or in person?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Oh, in person. I got a lot of gigs lined up.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah. So I'll be actually right across the street at
Marble Room on Friday.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Oh yeah, we're doing a little.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Valentine's Day at Marble Room. Okay, I'll be at Leo's
at Crocker Park on Thursday. Let me think Saturday, what
do I have Saturday? Well, either way, go to Haydenfrankgrove
dot com slash events Hayden Frank Grove. My middle name
is Frank it's not like a Frank Sinatra tribute thing.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Let's probably grandpa or an uncle or something.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Both both my.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Grandpa and my uncle, and yes both correct absolutely nailed it.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Nailed it Grandpa and uncle. So Haydenfrankrove dot com slash events.
My whole schedule's on there. We just updated the website
obviously with all the cool stuff.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
So I'll think it out, that's all. And where can
we find you on socials?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
At H as Michael says in the video, at h
Underscore Grove.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Well, and we didn't even get to, like the the
main gig obviously, you're not. Your main salary isn't for music.
You also are a reporter in Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah, yeah, sports. I do sports social media for Cleveland
dot comm.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yea, that's fantastic. So you're you're all you're ready for cats?
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Man?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
We got the calves are good. Now, we got the
voice happening right now.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
It's Cleveland's Cleveland Rocks. Baby, let's go you. I mean,
you know, I watched you know, people are like, oh,
like you know, what were you? Like? Were you what
were you doing out there? I was like I was
sitting at the pool watching Guardians on my on my
on my iPhone, you know, in the summertime. Yeah, one
o'clock games where at ten am. I'm like, you know what,
I'm just gonna go down, get a little sun and
(15:36):
watch the Guardians at ten am playing the Royals or something.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
That sounds like a rough life. I don't know how
you survived.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, it was tough, man, it was really tough. But
like people are like, you know, didn't you didn't get
you know? No, I was like, I just want to
watch the baseball game.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
You're gonna watch the Guards, baby, Yeah, you got the
shirt on me just so I'm always ready.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Pictures and catchers are there, they're there there, right, not
a sports guy, you're you're not.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I mean, I'm a follower and a fan, but I can't.
I can't talk ex as and os.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Oh that's fine me. You said, you said pictures and
schedules there, and you're exactly right.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
How you could have pulled me.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Most people wouldn't know that.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
That's that's that's my life. Mantra full people, and that
I'm way better at something than I actually am. Same ah, same,
I love it, dude. I wish you the best of luck.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
We're gonna be watching you.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The battles kick off here in a couple weeks after
the blind auditions are done. We're pulling for you. We're
rooting for you very much. Thank you for representing Cleveland
and awesome, dude.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It's dude, it's a complete honor, complete honor to represent
this beautiful city.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome man, Thank you man, I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Oh of course, congratulations, thank you so much. So, I
mean we all know that didn't happen live. How long
have you been sitting on this news and how much
is it driven you crazy?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It has been the most it's been in the grand
scheme of things. It is not at all difficult, you know,
people are dealing with real problems. But it was hard.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
It was very hard.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I mean it felt like I've said this something four
or five times already, but it felt like I was
you know those bubbles that you see at sports games
that like people like hit each other with. Have you
ever have you seen that?
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Oh yeah, like the ones you're in And yeah, I've
always wanted to do one of those.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, me too. But it felt like I was doing
it because like I couldn't let anybody get too close,
Like I just like bounce off, be like yeah, bounce off.
Like people ask me, what are you doing, I'm like
just nothing, oh, just like that. So I just feel
like I felt like I was kind of this bubble.
But it's been it was over the summer, so it's
been a long time.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well so I I used to live in a long
time ago. But my first I was there for the
first round of the Blinds because I had someone who
worked at NBC. Oh, so the very first this is
them learning how to do the show. So that was
in the summer and like yeah, and then I finally
saw it in like after the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I'm like, oh wow, Yeah, that was forever ago. So
you just had to sit.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Had to sit and just bubble boy.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Feel the lawyers breathing down your.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Neck something like that. Man. Yeah, yeah, it's it's been
a relief for sure. And it was a lonely time
to be honest, because you're not supposed to tell a
lot of people, and you kind of just got to
keep it your you know, your close knit group.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
So and you and you have to go back to
your normal life.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah right right, yeah, I mean, which.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Is that's got to be the weirdest part because you've
got the most exciting news in the world probably, i mean, yeah,
top five moments of your life probably, yeah, probably.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah. I don't have kids, I'm single, I haven't been married,
so yeah, but we'll.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
See if we can fix that.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
But yeah, exactly, so that's I mean, yeah, it's either
one or two for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Wow, that's all.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So so I we all saw it. We loved it.
I mean you came on like we were all watching.
I was watching it.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I'm like, what is Bouble doing?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
What is he?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Why is this not his dear? And then I felt
like Kelsey knew as well. Did she know that like
Bob because she even said at one point, I don't
know if I'm assuming you've watched him.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Oh yeah, I've watched it, and like I can't I
can't watch the whole thing. I just watched a little pit.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
But I saw, like you saw her say, hey, he's
not gonna do it? Like how how do you think
she knew?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
There was a look on his face like the so
the crazy part. I knew everything about that moment, and
there was stuff that they didn't show, which was really cool.
But I knew everything except for what they said when
the chairs were turned right because I couldn't see. I
can't see. Yeah, So that was the most interesting thing
to me to be like, Okay, here's what like, here's
what they're saying. And the minute Michael like Michael like
turned like this and and he went like he was
(02:41):
like great voice.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Something like that, so he knew that that's what he knew.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I think that's when he he might have known it
was me, I think, but again that's that's for him
to know, not for me to know.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And I then then what happened next is something I
don't think I've ever seen on that show. Is he
just and I mean this is a compliment he nerded
out about why Adam was for you. Explain that to me,
because I think I got it, but it didn't make
full sense in my brain why he thought Adam was
better for you than for him.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Because I think I do know the genre really well. Yeah,
I do know the jo like I. I think that's
why he followed me. I think that's why he he
understood My passion for the music is right alongside his.
And he's older and he's more experienced in it, but
he knows that like I have the foundation. So I
think it was more so that he felt like I
could get something a little different from Adam and like,
you know, something that maybe brings me more into Like again,
(03:31):
it's all about versatility, Like I don't want to be
sitting here as only a guy who does standards and
only guy who does this kind of music. I want to,
you know, do that for sure, But then you know,
I do want to branch out and do some other
more you know, modern things and elevate the music and
energize the music in a different direction. So yeah, I
think Adam can give me a little bit of an
edge and a little bit of that kind of hardcore
(03:52):
kind of coolness that he has.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
That that's swagger.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
That's swagger. Oh Booble's got swagger. But Adams is just
like a more it's a different thing.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I would I mean, I would say the main difference
between boob Blay and Lavine is you don't see Booblay
taking his shirt off on stage. Yeah, you know what,
I apologize. I've never seen him live. Yeah maybe he does.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Oh you've never seen Michael live. Man, That's that's a treat, dude.
He's the best live. He he gives it everything, man.
But no, I've never seen him take a shirt off
at a show. He puts he puts hockey jerseys on sometimes, Okay,
so he's he's adding clothings instead of putting taking it off.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
So I mean, so it's been it's been all this time.
People have known.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
How have you had anyone reach out of former contestants
or have you have you gotten any life hacks yet
from people who have been in this before.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Or like oh like from previously, from.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Previous or or anyone, like, hey, this is this is
the way you don't want to go because, like you said,
to win this competition, you don't you don't want to
go through and just do what you normally do.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
You have to find a way to stand out.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, in certain ways, and so but still being true
to yourself at the same time.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I admittedly I haven't like I haven't necessarily talked to
anybody who's done it in the past. But like season
twenty six and twenty seven we filled him at the
same time. Okay, so we bounced stuff off each other,
but what we're going through it at the same time.
So it's like they really weren't. We were all. It
was all kind of like a big group doing it together.
So I really didn't know. I kind of you kind
of go and blind. Like I think some of my
fellow contestants had friends that had been there and done that, sure,
(05:14):
so like they've talked to them, but no, man, we're
just just flying by the seat pants.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Did you go into it watching it in the in
previous seasons, like all right, I need this is I
know what I do right, and this is this is
how I'm gonna do it differently to stand out where
there any any tactics or strategies to.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Try to employ. Is just I'm gonna sing the best
and perform the best.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That was my thing. That was my thing throughout the
whole thing. It was like, just focus on the music. Yeah,
focus on the music, Focus on doing your best, the
best version of the song you can the best. You know.
Really they harp on you know, they do a lot
of vocal lessons and things to like get you ready,
like they really take care of you. So I was
focused on that and I was learning things. And I've
continued to learn things since, you know, since the summer.
(05:57):
So it's been it's been a remarkable experience. But Yeah,
in the past, I hadn't watched Yeah. And it's not
because I didn't love the idea of the show and
I didn't love the show. It's because I was in
my head like I watched those people, I'm like, I'm like, oh,
they're better than me. Why should I even try like,
why should I even go up there and do that? Like,
and then I'm sitting here today and I think it
was the best idea in the world to watch it,
because I don't know if I would have ever done it.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
It was pre impostor syndrome, if you will, pre imposter syndrome.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
So I knew you.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You grew up in Florida, you have family here, you
ended up coming here after college at OSU, right stay.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Yeah, So in that time learning.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
This music, falling in love with this music, had you
had any formal training to what?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
What did you do like growing up? How old were you?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah? So I started my first kind of foray into music.
There was like this boys singing group that like the
auditioned our whole class in third grade and I was
I was one of two people that made it. So
so that was choral music and classical music, you know,
just kids stuff. But then fifth grade, I think my
parents were like, do you love you seem to love me?
(07:00):
Do you want to like take voice lessons? And I
was like sure, Like I didn't know what that meant,
Like how do you take voice? Like you just sing?
What do you mean voice lessons? Yeah? But then I
had my first voice teacher. I was like, oh, okay,
this is what it's about. And that was at that
same time I was kind of figuring out this music
that I love this music, and I remember my voice
teacher was like what, like what do you want to sing?
And I was like, I want to sing this song.
(07:20):
It was like come fly with me or something, and
she like started playing and I started singing. She's like, oh,
now I get like this is it, Like this is you?
And I'm like, yeah, this has been me and like
so since then, it's just my first I sang Mac
the Knife, the same song I sang on the show
in the sixth grade Talent show the year after, and
since then it's just been that's been my thing.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So how did you discover outside of you know, hearing
this music, hearing the legends and this, you know, the
what is the brand actually the genre actually called because
I just call it crooner.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, there there is no name for the genre now, okay,
is no name for the genre because it's not jazz.
It's not jazz, it's not pop, it's it's it's just
it's a thing. Yeah, crooner music, I guess. But like
there's got we got to figure out a new name
for it.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Maybe that maybe that'll be your contribution.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
That'll be my contribution. We got to figure out a
name for it because like people just like, oh, boo blah,
I love his music. What is it? He doesn't even know.
He says jazz pop kind of thing, like, but he
said multiple times like I don't like, there's there's not
really a name for the genre. So were I love
to call it great music?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, no, and it's and it's it's super talented, and
it's it's clearly its home thing. Yeah, it's not like
anything else. Do you remember the first first song that
you heard, They're like, oh, this is this is a
genre I want to dive deeper into.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yes, I remember rummaging through my parents CD collection. My
parents were my dad was very musical. He played piano,
he sang, and he loved more classical music. And my
mom was kind of a child of the sixties, seventies,
eighties where she kind of she was a huge Michael
Stanley fan. She was like a Michael Stanley legend and
right she like follows I don't know if she followed him,
but like she loved Michael Stanley. So but then Bruce
(08:57):
Springsteen was her favorite, Bob Dylan, Like, so I think
I kind of just found the middle of classical music
and Bruce Springsteen and hit it right in the middle
of Sinatra. So, uh, I listened to Harry Conic and
then I'll never forget. I was singing watching the Rockefeller
Tree lighting. Uh on NBC shadow Hey ding ding ding
ding ding ding exactly, and uh, and he was there
(09:19):
was this song playing. It was let Snow and he's
turned around and this guy's got spiky hair and he's
like doing all this stuff like that's it. I don't
know what it is, but that's it. And it was
Boublet and that was kind of the start of it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
So this this uh, this silky the voice that you've
developed over the years. You how did you stumble upon it?
Was it just replicating what you heard?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Did you? Or did it?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Did you just sing Mary had a little lamb and
it sounded like Frank Sinatra?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
No, I mean, uh yeah, like I said with my
voice teacher, it just kind of fit. It just was
it just fit like before before my voice dropped, Yeah,
like before I hit puberty, Like I was singing Adam
Levine's songs because they were in that because Adam is
a really nice, high kind of voice, and like if
it for me. So I was singing she Will be Loved,
I was singing this love. I was singing Sunday Morning,
(10:05):
and like that's what I was blarning through my speakers.
But then when like my voice dropped and I started
to love with this music, It's just it's it was destiny.
I feel like I've said a million times now, but
I feel like God had his hand all over this thing.
And I praise him and bless him because I praise
him that he's blessed me because it just it is.
It's divine. There's nothing else there's I've worked really hard
(10:26):
to develop my craft. Yeah, but like but.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You got to start somewhere. It doesn't just it doesn't
just come out like that. There's there's a little nugget
exactly that comes out. And then you have, you know,
someone a great mentor, like if your first voice teacher, like,
oh that's the direction we need to go to. Let's
let's travel down that road.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, but he gave me the the original gift and yes,
then you then you work as hard as you can
to better that I've tried my best, for sure.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So we've got knockouts to the next round, right, no
battle battle, that's it.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
It's been a minute since I watched it. But now
that we've got.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
A Cleveland guy, yeaheah, yeah, I'm dialed in. So the
battles are next a couple a couple more weeks. It'll
be about a month, about a month out, yeah yeah,
and then we'll get to find out you're the next
step in your journey.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah man. But until then, I mean, we got to
fill up team Adam. There's some great some great people.
You're gonna see them. Man, I've gotten to know so
many beautiful, wonderful people like you get to see my friends,
which is crazy, like I've I remember like the first
week watching them was so much fun. I was like, man,
this is amazing. And then obviously this week has been amazing.
But yeah, of course, but I like to see your
friends do it. It's just like the people you shared
(11:32):
every day with and you know, got to know and
you know, it was like a big my friend Barry,
you'll see him he is he auditioned. He uh. He said.
It's like a big summer camp for adults where you're
all and you all love music and like you get
to you don't have really counselors. But like, I don't know,
it's just like the biggest band camp.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Cool big, it's like a big group mind experiment.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, something like that. Man, it's it's awesome. It was
so much fun.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
What do you And I'm trying to get it without
because obviously you're not allowed to spoil anything, but is
is it? Is it spoiler to tell us something Adam
taught you vocally how to do that you didn't know how.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
To do before you started.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Again, you don't have to say a specific song or anything,
but a technique or something that you didn't have before
that you now have in the toolbox.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Not that I not that I can think of or
want to say.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Okay, oh I like it though, I want to say
that's a little bit like hey, you gotta like yeah
you hang on, Yeah, you don't know what's gonna come
maybe maybe maybe you're gonna jump on and all of
a sudden here comes not like us, I don't know
what's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
We never know, we never know.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Maybe maybe yeah, yeah, I liked you know, I love
the fact that it was so hard to keep everything
a secret. Oh yeah, but like now it's like a
little spicy, like okay, you know, I can't say it,
but like now you gotta now you're hooked.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, let go, you gotta watch I do the last
thing I want to ask you. Uh, the the our necklace?
What is that?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Great? Great? Great? That is my ex girlfriend? Okay, she
we had. I had the the our necklace on for her.
We are still close, we're still good friends. We're not together,
but we were. I still have a lot of love
her if her name is Rachel. So yeah, that was
the our necklace?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
And wait were you together last? Yes? And since then?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yes? Since then?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Interesting?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yes, she is a wonderful person. And uh no, it's yeah,
that's the one thing. Even my friends were like, my
friends are like, sell the art necklace.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
She went with it.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I was like, that was the time we were together. Yeah,
of course I did, Like she wasn't you know. I
didn't get to take her to the blind audition because
I have my parents. So I was like, I'm going
to take a piece of you know, I'm going to
take the art with me. So yeah, I don't have
any regrets, and I love it.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
You're you, You become the person you are from your past,
right exactly, That's how I say it.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
And people always like delete their Instagram, like when all
are I don't delete it. This part of my life,
it's happened. Yeah. And then and she's still part of it.
She's still, like I said, she's the kindest person. We
are still good friends. And I have no regrets about
wearing R No, no regret.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Ah he did there, see what he did?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
All right?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Well, I mean obviously we've got, like you said, about
another month of the battles. Obviously you're you're here, You're
in town. Where can we find you in the meantime?
Online or in person?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Oh, in person. I got a lot of gigs lined up.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah. So I'll be actually right across the street at
Marble Room on Friday.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Oh yeah, we're doing a little.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Valentine's Day at Marble Room. Okay, I'll be at Leo's
at Crocker Park on Thursday. Let me think Saturday, what
do I have Saturday? Well, either way, go to Haydenfrankgrove
dot com slash events Hayden Frank Grove. My middle name
is Frank it's not like a Frank Sinatra tribute thing.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Let's probably grandpa or an uncle or something.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Both both my.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Grandpa and my uncle, and yes both correct absolutely nailed it.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Nailed it Grandpa and uncle. So Haydenfrankrove dot com slash events.
My whole schedule's on there. We just updated the website
obviously with all the cool stuff.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
So I'll think it out, that's all. And where can
we find you on socials?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
At H as Michael says in the video, at h
Underscore Grove.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Well, and we didn't even get to, like the the
main gig obviously, you're not. Your main salary isn't for music.
You also are a reporter in Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah, yeah, sports. I do sports social media for Cleveland
dot comm.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yea, that's fantastic. So you're you're all you're ready for cats?
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Man?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
We got the calves are good. Now, we got the
voice happening right now.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
It's Cleveland's Cleveland Rocks. Baby, let's go you. I mean,
you know, I watched you know, people are like, oh,
like you know, what were you? Like? Were you what
were you doing out there? I was like I was
sitting at the pool watching Guardians on my on my
on my iPhone, you know, in the summertime. Yeah, one
o'clock games where at ten am. I'm like, you know what,
I'm just gonna go down, get a little sun and
(15:36):
watch the Guardians at ten am playing the Royals or something.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
That sounds like a rough life. I don't know how
you survived.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, it was tough, man, it was really tough. But
like people are like, you know, didn't you didn't get
you know? No, I was like, I just want to
watch the baseball game.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
You're gonna watch the Guards, baby, Yeah, you got the
shirt on me just so I'm always ready.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Pictures and catchers are there, they're there there, right, not
a sports guy, you're you're not.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I mean, I'm a follower and a fan, but I can't.
I can't talk ex as and os.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Oh that's fine me. You said, you said pictures and
schedules there, and you're exactly right.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
How you could have pulled me.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Most people wouldn't know that.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
That's that's that's my life. Mantra full people, and that
I'm way better at something than I actually am. Same ah, same,
I love it, dude. I wish you the best of luck.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
We're gonna be watching you.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The battles kick off here in a couple weeks after
the blind auditions are done. We're pulling for you. We're
rooting for you very much. Thank you for representing Cleveland
and awesome, dude.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It's dude, it's a complete honor, complete honor to represent
this beautiful city.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Thanks for listening to that Jeremiah Show on demand.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
For more, find us on TikTok, Instagram, and more at
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