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Lily Elise reached The Voice's quarterfinals, then sang on Chappell Roan songs

Lily Elise sings background vocals on Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo records. Dani Moz, Sasha Allen and other Idol and Voice singers have too.

Lily Elise

Lily Elise

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Lily Elise reached the live quarterfinals of The Voice's first season in 2011, singing on Christina Aguilera's team. She is credited with background vocals on two 2025 Chappell Roan singles, The Giver and The Subway. Here are Lily Elise and nine more singers from Idol and The Voice who have sung background vocals on stage and on record.

Lily Elise on Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo records

Lily Elise is credited with background vocals on Chappell Roan's The Giver, released on March 13, 2025, and The Subway, released on August 1, 2025. She is also credited with background vocals on Honeybee, from Olivia Rodrigo's album released in June 2026, alongside Rodrigo, Daniel Nigro and Conan Gray.

Dani Moz and Tamara Jade sang for Beyoncé and Lizzo

Dani Moz, who made the Top 12 of The Voice's sixth season, sang background vocals on Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Tour in 2025. The tour closed with its 32nd show, in Las Vegas, on July 26, 2025. Tamara Jade sang as a backup singer and dancer for Lizzo, including at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, before she reached the semifinals of The Voice's 19th season.

Sasha Allen and Kat Perkins in rock touring bands

Sasha Allen, who made the Top 5 of The Voice's fourth season, joined the Rolling Stones' touring band as a backing vocalist in January 2016 and sang with the band at Hyde Park in 2022. In 2026 she plays Katherine Jackson in MJ on Broadway. Kat Perkins, from the Top 5 of The Voice's sixth season, has sung backing vocals in Kid Rock's Twisted Brown Trucker Band since 2022, including at his Minneapolis concert in March 2025.

Sasha Allen

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Beane with Alex Warren, and Andy Cherry with Brandon Lake

Beane, from Idol's 19th season in 2021, sang as one of Alex Warren's backing singers at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, on July 11, 2026. Andy Cherry, who auditioned for The Voice's seventh season, serves at Seacoast Church and has traveled as Brandon Lake's musical director and acoustic guitarist. On March 16, 2026, he released Songs For My Son, Vol. 1.

Studio voices on OK Go, Everlast and Sergio George records

Shalyah Fearing, a semifinalist on The Voice's 10th season, sang backing vocals with Ben Harper on OK Go's A Good, Good Day at Last, from the 2025 album And the Adjacent Possible. Sarina-Joi Crowe, who made the Top 12 of Idol's 14th season, sang background vocals on Everlast's Embers to Ashes. In 2025 she told NashvilleVoyager that most of her touring and background jobs came from friends' recommendations in the Nashville music scene. Karen Rodriguez, 12th on Idol's 10th season, sang background vocals on Sergio George's 2025 album Ataca Sergio Presents: Urban Salsa Sessions.

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