Loren Allred reached The Voice's live playoffs. In 2026 she sang for Pokémon

Loren Allred went out in the first week of the 2012 Voice playoffs

Allred grew up with musician parents: her mother is a classical soprano and voice teacher, and her father was the director of the Pittsburgh Bach Choir. At Berklee College of Music she posted videos on YouTube, and the support of Ne-Yo led to a record deal with Island Def Jam. On September 12, 2012, she sang “When Love Takes Over” in the blind auditions of the third season of The Voice. Two coaches turned, and she joined Team Adam. Levine kept her in the battles, with “Need You Now,” and in the knockouts, with “You Know I'm No Good.” She went out on November 5, after “All Around the World” in the first week of the live playoffs, and tied for 13th place.

She was the singing voice behind “Never Enough”

In 2014 Allred worked as a playback singer on a film musical that the Broadway songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul were developing. She was cast as the singing voice of Rebecca Ferguson's character, the singer Jenny Lind, in The Greatest Showman. Her song, “Never Enough,” reached number 88 on the Hot 100. In April 2022 she sang it in her audition for Britain's Got Talent and got Amanda Holden's Golden Buzzer. “I was more comfortable singing behind the scenes,” she told Simon Cowell. She finished ninth in the final.

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She sang Aerith’s theme song in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

In the action role-playing game Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the character Aerith sings the theme song, “No Promises to Keep.” Nobuo Uematsu, who wrote the music for much of the Final Fantasy series, composed it, and he told the PlayStation Blog that the game's creative director, Tetsuya Nomura, wanted Allred to sing it. She was announced as the singer at The Game Awards in December 2023. Allred recorded in the United States while the team worked from Tokyo. When the call kept dropping, she asked the team to trust her to sing the song as she saw fit, and they agreed. “There is something about her singing voice that is truly captivating,” Uematsu said. The single came out on March 20, 2024.

• Listen to “No Promises to Keep” on Apple Music

She sang two songs for the 2026 Pokémon World Championships

On August 14, 2026, The Pokémon Company released the four-song soundtrack of the 2026 Pokémon World Championships on its YouTube channel. Allred sings two of the songs: “Champions,” which Pokémon called “an anthem that captures the spirit of our collective dream to become Pokémon champions,” and “Love Of The Game.” The championships took place in San Francisco from August 28 to 30, 2026, and the Chase Center was the venue for Championship Sunday.

• Listen to “Champions” on YouTube
• Listen to “Love Of The Game” on YouTube

Siobhan Magnus sings on Ridiculon’s game soundtracks

Siobhan Magnus finished sixth on the ninth season of American Idol in 2010, after she emerged as an early contender with her versions of “Think” and “Paint It Black.” After her elimination, David Letterman told her, “As far as I'm concerned, you should be our American Idol.” She has since sung on the soundtracks of the video games The End Is Nigh, Blade Strangers and Mewgenics. Ridiculon, the duo of Matthias Bossi and Jon Evans, scored The End Is Nigh for Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel, and its 2017 soundtrack album has a bonus track sung by Magnus. For Mewgenics, McMillen and Glaiel's 2026 game about breeding cats for tactical battles, she sings “Angel Wings” on the soundtrack album, which Ridiculon released on April 14, 2025. Mewgenics sold more than a million copies in its first week.

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• Listen to “Angel Wings” on Bandcamp

Chris Mann sang “The After” for the game Arknights

Chris Mann finished fourth on the second season of The Voice in 2012, on Christina Aguilera's team. In the finale he sang “You Raise Me Up,” and he sang “The Prayer” with Aguilera. His studio singing was used in films such as Avatar and Tangled, and after the show he played the Phantom for two years in the North American tour of The Phantom of the Opera. With Sage X Price he sang “The After” for the soundtrack of Arknights, and the single came out on June 5, 2025. Arknights is a free-to-play tactical tower defense game for phones from the Chinese studio Hypergryph, released in China in 2019 and in other countries in 2020.

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• Listen to “The After” on Apple Music

Jacob Lusk sang for the anime series Lazarus

Jacob Lusk, from Compton, California, finished fifth on the 10th season of American Idol in 2011. In 2016 he formed the band Gabriels with Ari Balouzian and Ryan Hope. Bonobo's “Dark Will Fall,” with Lusk's vocals, came out on March 27, 2025, as one of three new songs for Lazarus, an Adult Swim anime series by the Cowboy Bebop director Shinichirō Watanabe. In February 2026 Moby's album Future Quiet opened with a new orchestral version of “When It's Cold I'd Like To Die” featuring Lusk. The song first came out in 1995 and found a new audience through the Netflix series Stranger Things.

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• Listen to “Dark Will Fall” on Apple Music

Diamond White voiced Moon Girl in Marvel Rivals

Diamond White left the second season of The X Factor on December 5, 2012, the night she sang “Diamonds” and the judges saved Fifth Harmony. She went on to voice Lunella Lafayette, the title character of the Disney Channel series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, which premiered in 2023, and she played the role again in Spidey and His Amazing Friends. In 2026 she voiced Lunella Lafayette, Moon Girl, in Marvel Rivals, a free-to-play hero shooter that NetEase Games made with Marvel Games and released in December 2024.

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Carly Smithson sang a League of Legends song with an orchestra

Carly Smithson, born in Dublin, finished sixth on the seventh season of American Idol in 2008. She went out on April 23 after singing “Superstar” from Jesus Christ Superstar. In 2009 she became the lead singer of We Are the Fallen, a hard rock band with three former members of Evanescence: Ben Moody, John LeCompt and Rocky Gray. Its album Tear the World Down came out in May 2010. At a 2025 Gamesymphonic concert, where the conductor Eímear Noone led an orchestra in video game music, Smithson sang “Legends Never Die” from League of Legends to end the program, and We Are the Fallen followed with a surprise performance of “Bury Me Alive.”

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