{"id":2441268,"date":"2019-03-03T11:34:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T18:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=802526"},"modified":"2019-03-03T11:34:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T18:34:35","slug":"the-voice-singer-janice-freeman-dead-at-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/the-voice-singer-janice-freeman-dead-at-33\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Voice\u2019 Singer Janice Freeman Dead at 33"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-876881954.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Janice Freeman, a contestant on <em>The Voice<\/em> in 2017, has died at the age of 33.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman\u2019s family confirmed her death to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/03\/03\/the-voice-janice-freeman-dead-dies-blood-clot-cancer-miley-cyrus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>TMZ<\/em><\/a>, saying \u201cshe was at home in Pasadena with her husband, Dion, when she started complaining she couldn\u2019t breathe.\u201d On Saturday, her husband called 911 and subsequently performed CPR on Freeman until paramedics showed up. Freeman was pronounced dead on that evening.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman reportedly died from a blood clot that had moved to her heart. The singer was a cancer survivor who previously dealt with health issues including cervical cancer, lupus and meningitis.<\/p>\n<p>Tributes began pouring in on social media for the late singer, including from <em>Voice<\/em> coach Jennifer Hudson, who posted on Instagram that Freeman was \u201ca blessing and inspiration to us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BuixZ1Klei1\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-3.1546242774566\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>During season 13 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-voice\/\"><em>The Voice<\/em><\/a> in 2017, Freeman was featured on \u201cTeam Miley\u201d and advanced to the top 11 in the show. She became a contestant following a blind audition of Imagine Dragons\u2019 \u201cRadioactive\u201d and later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/the-voice-see-team-mileys-empowering-cover-of-etta-james-woman-124751\/\">performed an empowering rendition of Etta James\u2019 \u201cWoman.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IsjegWImhiI?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Following her stint on <em>The Voice<\/em>, Freeman and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/miley-cyrus\/\">Miley Cyrus<\/a> continued their friendship. <em>The Voice<\/em> coach even helped Freeman out financially, paying for a security deposit and six months\u2019 rent on an apartment for her family.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the kind gesture, Freeman posted an emotional video thanking Cyrus saying, \u201cMiley, you are my dawg, like, my best friend, and I will defend you to the bitter end. This woman blessed me to be able to move in. Do you understand? What she don\u2019t know is, I\u2019ve been praying for her.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BdbJEg9H4ER\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-4.058064516129\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cyrus paid tribute to Freeman in an Instagram story Sunday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"3.84\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">This is beautiful. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MileyCyrus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@MileyCyrus<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/janice_freeman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@janice_freeman<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z15K9jhAH9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Z15K9jhAH9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miley Cyrus News (@MileyRaySlays) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MileyRaySlays\/status\/1102263108582760449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">March 3, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-voice-singer-janice-freeman-802526\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janice Freeman, a contestant on The Voice in 2017, has died at the age of 33. Freeman\u2019s family confirmed her death to TMZ, saying \u201cshe was at home in Pasadena with her husband, Dion, when she started complaining she couldn\u2019t breathe.\u201d On Saturday, her husband called 911 and subsequently performed CPR on Freeman until paramedics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 21:10:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}