Adam wakefield biography

Wakefield is that rare singer and songwriter who can bridge the personal and the universal, who can sadly laugh and softly ache through an uncommonly poetic.
Touring musician and songwriter best known for competing on season 10 of NBC's The Voice and finishing in 2nd place.
Born and raised in rural New Hampshire, he started playing guitar at the age of four.

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Wow! Who the Heck is Adam Wakefield?

By Karen Bernick,

My cousin watches The Voice. I watch (ed) American Idol. With all reality TV has to offer, you must make choices or you’ll never get your emails returned, kitchen cleaned up or your garden planted. But if I’m feeling left out about what’s happening over on NBC, cousin Kris is my go-to. She and I actually binged out a few weeks ago in front of her computer to compare the chops of last fall’s Voice winner Jordan Smith with this spring’s American Idol winner Trent Harmon. That was fun. We even ran a face-off between their renditions of Sam Smith’s Like I Can (Can) and Sia’s Chandelier. I’m not 100 percent sure but I think we decided Jordan edged out Trent on Like I Can and Trent conquered the win with Chandelier. Or, at least that is how I remember it.

But I wasn’t aware that The Voice finale was upon us until tonight. I finally figured out that this guy Adam Wakefield, who kept popping up on my Twitter feed, was a

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Adam Wakefield

Adam Wakefield is a singer-songwriter who has secured his place in Nashville, TN, but is far from the typical artist one may expect to find in the Country Music Capital of the World.
Growing up in New Hampshire, Adam didn’t intend to become an artist. In fact, his original goal was to become a musician. He began to play piano when he was younger and in search of a hobby, especially one at which he believed he could excel. Adam’s intuitions were correct, and he continued to play piano until it was time to make a musical choice and hone in on a certain genre as a pianist. Rather than choosing the predictable classical route, the man who has become celebrated for his uniqueness in his artistry opted for jazz.

The desire to continue his piano-playing in the jazz circuit lasted about one year into college, and that was when Adam realized he wanted to make a larger contribution to music than the one he was destined to at that point. Striving for something more, he decided to join his brother, who was in Baltimore, and put together a band. While juggling a full time j

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Adam Wakefield Beyond The Voice: One of Country’s Most Authentic Voices

I’ll admit, like a lot of folks, Adam Wakefield first crossed my radar when he was a finalist on The Voice in 2016. My parents, who are avid lovers of both the show and country music, insisted that I “check this guy out.” Full disclosure: when I pulled it up, I sort of expected just another bro-country singer, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing—but more on that later. Instead, as he sang his original tune “Lonesome, Broken, and Blue” in a Stapleton-esque, bluesy baritone, I found myself confronted by a country singer in the classic, and truer, sense of the term. As it goes with great country songs, the tune conveys an emotional reality of much greater complexity than the simple language would have you believe. In this case, it is the story of a man admitting to his former partner, and perhaps to himself, the inescapable pain he feels—a pain which often walks hand in hand with love. Further, though he doesn’t seem to regret the relationship, he is faced with the finality of things, and thus finds himsel