Herriman singer's 'The Voice' run ends; his next goal is a BYU football anthem
Herriman singer Johnnie Kapua's run on "The Voice" ended Tuesday in the show's Battle round, and he told the Deseret News his next goal is singing the anthem at a BYU football game.
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Johnnie Kapua, a 32-year-old singer who lives in Herriman, went out of "The Voice" on Tuesday night, Oct. 13, in the show's Battle round, the Deseret News reported 1.
Kapua's blind audition drew turns from Kelly Clarkson and Queen Latifah, and Clarkson used the show's "First In Button" — the feature that lets the coach who turned around first claim the singer — so Kapua joined Team Kelly automatically, the paper reported 1. In the Battle round he performed "Some Things I'll Never Know" with teammate Anna McElroy, a fellow member of Team Kelly 1.
Before the show, Kapua described himself as a casual singer. He told the Deseret News he had sung at occasional family and church gatherings, studied project management at Ensign College, and felt like an "impostor" among contestants who had been working in music for years; he called himself an "anomaly" 1. He said winning over Clarkson and Latifah — his top two picks for a coach — validated him. "It made a switch in my mind," he said. "Like, 'Oh, dude, you can actually sing.'" 1
He now wants music to be a bigger part of his life, along with a specific ambition: singing the national anthem at a BYU football game, which he told the paper would also be the first football game he had attended 1. He said he also wants to perform in his homeland of New Zealand and represent his culture on a larger stage 1.
Kapua works full time in sales, and his wife signed him up for the audition while she was 36 weeks pregnant, according to the paper's account 1. He said being a father is what he is proudest of after his marriage: "The goal is for my kids to be able to see their dad do something that he was very terrified of doing, and, you know, have that transfer into their own mind that they can do hard things, too." 1
Sources: 1 Deseret News, "He just competed on 'The Voice.' His next goal: Singing at a BYU football game," Oct. 14, 2026 https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2026/10/14/johnnie-kapua-talks-the-voice-kelly-clarkson-singing-at-byu-game/
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