Riley Green and Carly Pearce Talk Teaming Up as Coach and Mentor on ‘The Voice’: ‘She Was a Really Obvious Choice for Me’ (Exclusive)
Categoria: Musica
The pair's episodes begin airing Oct. 6.
Por Billboard | 05/10/2026
Riley Green and Carly Pearce already showed they have amazing chemistry in their hit sultry duet, “If I Don’t Leave, I’m Gonna Stay,” and now they’re joining together again, not for a song, but for The Voice . Pearce joins Green’s team as a mentor starting Tuesday (Oct. 6.). When it came time for Green to pick an advisor, the choice for the rookie coach was an easy one. “I’ve been a huge fan of her long before I even had a record deal and came to [Nashville],” Green says, sitting on a sofa beside Pearce during The Voice taping in Burbank. “Then, obviously we had the duet together and I just think we were kind of having such a moment with that and the music video, when this came up, she was just a really obvious choice for me.” Pearce, who will also be in episodes airing Oct 12-13, 19 and 26, has served as a mentor on the show before when she worked with then coach Michael Bublé in 2024 as a playoff advisor. “No matter what genre of music you do, you’ve been in [the contestants’] shoes in some form or fashion,” she says of that experience. “You’ve had a dream, and you’ve wanted to do this. I think I’m just trying to see what makes each person unique. For Michael’s team, there was nobody in my [realm] of country music, but just getting in there and kind of seeing what their strengths were was really a fun thing for me, and I just really enjoyed it.” Plus, Green says he got a taste of what Pearce will be like because she mentored him through the recording of “If I Don’t Leave, I’m Gonna Stay.” “When she asked me to be a part of that song, that was a stretch for me,” he says. “It sounded like Charles Kelley on the demo or him and Ryan Hurd mixed together. How they phrased things and the harmonies was really not where I would have went,” he says. “That’s probably the most I’ve had to learn to sing something. And I think that’s what this show’s about. It’s about trying things you’re not comfortable with, so she was an obvious choice for me when I was trying to coach somebody else. She knows what she’s doing.” As Green has expressed before, he feels his role on the show is to be similar to Blake Shelton in his deft humor, but also in his funny relationship with Maroon 5 ’s Adam Levine, which Green has sustained. “Blake just told me not to make friends with anybody,” Green says with a laugh. He seems to be holding to that, but his admiration and affection for his fellow new coach, Queen Latifah, is very evident. “I I think I really understood what they were looking for because I know what Blake did so well,” he says. “You know, he’s really dry, and his sense of humor is great. And being the only country act on The Voice as a coach, you have to hold that role. And Blake’s a good old boy from Oklahoma, and I think that I could kind of play that good old boy from Alabama without really having