![]() “My favorite part of the business is the live aspect. “We have a pretty rockin’ live show,” he admits. Ian is glad to be back on the road touring, playing and greeting old fans and meeting new ones. And we wanted to get Kamea into school so she could be around other kids.” The house has been a big change for us but it’s awesome. I’ve already grown as a writer, it’s an amazing community. ![]() I signed a deal with Reviver Publishing, and they’ve been hooking me up with writers here in town. We moved just north of Nashville a few months ago. “Kamea is eight now, will be nine this fall, and for the first time in her life we will be settled in one place. But my wife had been home schooled, and she was great at teaching Kamea. That doesn’t translate into a normal education. We were home schooling her and we were doing tours and she was explaining desert plant life to the folks on the tours we were doing. It is the adventure of a lifetime to raise a kid like that.Ī post shared by Ian Flanigan of the places we played in the Sonoran Desert was at Boyce Thomson Arboretum in Superior AZ. I remember when she was five, we were playing this biker bar in Arizona and I look down and she’s sitting there eating hot wings. “There we were raising our daughter, playing all over the country. “It’s comical looking back,” Flanigan admits. She managed me for a long time and handled all of my social media. Ayla is really great in all sides of the music business. We always had gigs booked ahead of time – we did a lot of songwriting festivals, fairs, any place that would have us. “We were going from state to state, working in parks in order to stay for free. He and his fiancé Ayla continued that lifestyle, selling everything they owned and created a path in music living in a Winnebego. “My family was not a musical family, but they were fine with that life style for me,” he explains. There was not a lot of sitting around during the shoot and I always take advantage of learning when you are watching people do what they do best.”Īs a young man, Flanigan traveled around the country by myself, living in Orlando when he was 18 and playing in bars, then moving to Colorado to continue to play music. “I was performing in the video, so my role was not acting as much as performance. You know he has helped other contestants before and I’m grateful that he was interested in helping me.”įlanigan learns at every step of his career, and the same was with the video for “Grow Up” which was directed by David Abbott of Powwow productions. We reached out and asked him if he would be interested and he was. “When we were working on the single, we thought it would be great if Blake would be a part of it. DiIan Flanigan Photo Credit: Nightcap Entertainment Blake saved me multiple times during the show and has been a great friend afterwards. I’m grateful for friends I’ve met through the show. “ The Voice turned out to be a huge blessing in my life. It was a thrill for the singer/songwriter as well because he had been a Blake Shelton fan before he ever met him on the show. ![]() We were there for six months and we had one break where we could come back to see our family.”įlanigan was fortunate enough to record his current single, “Grow Up,” with Shelton, who was not only his coach on the show but is now his friend. ![]() The hardest part is on your family, really not knowing where we’re going. It helps prepare you for the work ahead of you. I have to give the kids who are on the show a lot of credit because it’s not easy. Sitting in a hotel room, having room service and playing my guitar was not bad in the middle of a pandemic. It was hard on the family for me to be away and have all these unknown variables that controlled life, but I looked at it as an opportunity to learn from great talented people further along and wiser than me, that could help me get to where I wanted to be. “I didn’t have a lot of complaining in me, I was pretty grateful. It was as quick as that.”įlanigan says being on The Voice was a great opportunity for him. I was originally going there as an alternate, but when I got there, I did my blind audition and Blake (Shelton) turned around and I was on the show. I did and was called to go to Los Angeles. “The scout came back to the green room and asked if I would like to submit a video for the show. “To be honest I didn’t know that there was a scout from The Voice in the audience when I was performing at The Mercy Lounge that night in Nashville,” Flanigan says. For Flanigan, it was a blessing that he landed a spot on the popular television show that year, as the pandemic was just sweeping the nation and all his gigs had been cancelled. Ian Flanigan has been playing music and writing songs since he was 11 years old, so it should be no surprise that he was immediately chosen by Blake Shelton on his blind audition for The Voice’s 19 th season and placed third in the competition.
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