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Katie Kadan finished third on The Voice and sold out six shows in Italy

Katie Kadan has more Italy dates in November 2026. Josh Levi, Todrick Hall, Sofronio Vasquez and Jessica Sanchez also found audiences abroad.

Piazza Maggiore in Bologna at night, with lit palaces, a clock tower and people crossing the square.

Piazza Maggiore, Bologna · April 20, 2018

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Katie Kadan finished third on The Voice's 17th season in 2019, singing on John Legend's team. In a June 2026 interview she told how a Facebook message led her to six sold-out shows in Italy, and she has more Italian dates in November. Here are her shows and the audiences abroad that more singers from the shows found.

Katie Kadan in Turin and Bologna

Kadan is scheduled to play two nights at Vinile in Turin on November 13 and 14, 2026, with the Good Gheddo Trio and Alberto Marsico. She is scheduled to play Bravo Caffè in Bologna on November 19, 2026. The Vinile page introduces her as a singer from Chicago and a 2019 finalist on John Legend’s team on The Voice, with Marsico on Hammond organ. The Bravo Caffè listing says the set mixes her own songs and songs from her Voice run with songs by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Gladys Knight & the Pips and Koko Taylor.

Josh Levi in London and Paris, and Austin Jenckes in Germany and England

Josh Levi, seventh on The X Factor's third season, headlined Oslo Hackney in London on September 29, 2026, played La Boule Noire in Paris on October 2 and sang the U.S. national anthem before the Colts–Commanders game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on October 4. In September he released HYDRAULIC: FUELED UP, an expanded edition of his debut album. Austin Jenckes, from the Top 10 of The Voice's fifth season, opened for Corey Kent at Die Kantine in Cologne on May 14, 2026, and returned to play England's Buckle & Boots festival in 2026.

Josh Levi

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Todrick Hall's Midnight came to New York from London

Todrick Hall, from the Top 16 of Idol's ninth season, wrote, directed, choreographed and stars in the musical Midnight. It arrived in New York after two sold-out engagements in London and opened at the Daryl Roth Theatre on October 15, 2026. Jeremy Beloate, fifth on The Voice's 26th season, sang in Midnight's London workshop in November 2025 and plays Richard in New York.

Todrick Hall

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Sofronio Vasquez and Jessica Sanchez in Asia

Sofronio Vasquez, who won The Voice's 26th season, signed with Star Magic for representation in the Philippines in 2025. On June 7, 2025, he sang in the Philippine National Day program at Expo 2025 in Osaka, and he is set to play a solo concert at the Proscenium Theater on November 7, 2026. Jessica Sanchez, the runner-up of Idol's 11th season, played a homecoming concert at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City on May 16, 2026, after releasing Stronger Than Before with Morissette on May 1.

Sofronio Vasquez

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