{"id":61517,"date":"2016-12-04T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=61517"},"modified":"2016-12-04T15:00:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T21:00:59","slug":"garth-brooks-to-mentor-top-12-the-voice-contestants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/04\/garth-brooks-to-mentor-top-12-the-voice-contestants\/","title":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks to Mentor Top 12 \u2018The Voice\u2019 Contestants"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-61518\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/garthbrooks001.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"garthbrooks001\" width=\"750\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/garthbrooks001.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/garthbrooks001-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/garthbrooks001-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/garthbrooks001-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>Garth Brooks to Mentor Top 12 \u2018The Voice\u2019 Contestants<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Garth Brooks shows no signs of slowing down after his big\u00a0Entertainer of the Year win at the 2016 CMA Awards. He\u2019s set to mentor the Top 12 artists on Season 11 of\u00a0<em>The Voice<\/em>\u00a0starting Nov. 14.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks will advise the 12 contestants who advance to the next round after Monday night\u2019s (Nov. 7) live telecast.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow country stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill also served as mentors on\u00a0<em>The Voice\u00a0<\/em>this season, coaching artists competing in the Knockout Rounds in October. Bette Middler, Joan Jett, Charlie Puth and more have all been on hand this season as key advisors to the contestants, including Nashville\u2019s own Preston James.<\/p>\n<p>As if Brooks wasn\u2019t already qualified enough to mentor the contestants, he\u2019s recently put several once-in-a-lifetime achievements under his belt. He made history at the 50th annual CMA Awards when he was crowned the night\u2019s biggest accolade for the fifth time, being the first and only artist to do so. He set another record in October of 2016 when he achieved seven diamond-certificated albums, with seven of his albums selling more than 10 million copies each,\u00a0making him the best-selling solo artist in history. \u00a0He\u2019ll also be on hand with wife Trisha Yearwood to light up the famed Rockefeller Christmas tree in New York City on Nov. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks\u2019\u00a0new album <em>Gunslinger\u00a0<\/em>is slated to debut on Nov. 25, and he recently partnered with Amazon and Target to release his music, the latter of which will sell a 10-disc box set featuring the icon\u2019s biggest hits, available on Nov. 11.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Voice\u00a0<\/em>airs on Mondays on\u00a0NBC at 8PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u00a0Is Country Music? Garth Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k1n5ZasLrps?feature=oembed]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garth Brooks to Mentor Top 12 \u2018The Voice\u2019 Contestants Garth Brooks shows no signs of slowing down after his big\u00a0Entertainer of the Year win at the 2016 CMA Awards. He\u2019s set to mentor the Top 12 artists on Season 11 of\u00a0The Voice\u00a0starting Nov. 14. Brooks will advise the 12 contestants who advance to the next round after Monday night\u2019s (Nov. 7) live telecast. Fellow country stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill also served as mentors on\u00a0The Voice\u00a0this season, coaching artists competing in the Knockout Rounds in October. 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