Jake Hoot
American country singer
Jake Hoot (born July 7, 1988) is an American country singer. He is the winner of season 17 of the American talent competition The Voice at the age of 31. He competed on the team coached by Kelly Clarkson, giving her third win as a coach on the show. Hoot was the second one-chair turn from The Voice U.S.'s blind auditions to win his season, after Team Alicia's Chris Blue, the final contestant to audition on season 12, and the first to do so outright (minimum two coaches eligible to turn).
Early life
Jake Hoot was born in Corpus Christi, Texas on July 7, 1988. Jake is the second oldest of nine siblings born to Aaron and Stacey Hoot, both of whom are Christian missionaries. At the age of nine, he and his family relocated to the Dominican Republic where his parents lived and worked as missionaries from 1998 to 2008. He learned the guitar and began singing while in the country, became fluent in Spanish, and played in the Dominican baseball league for a year. Upon returning to the U.S., he was homeschooled; in 2009, he attended Tennessee Tech. He had a back-up role playing football on Tennessee Tech's offensive line for his first year in 2010.
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