Jake Hoot (born July 7, 1988) is an American country singer. He was the winner of

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of the American talent competition ''

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'' at the age of 31.

Early life

Jake Hoot was born in

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on July 7, 1988. Jake is the second oldest of nine siblings in his family. Their parents are Aaron and Stacey Hoot who are

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aries. At the age of nine, he and his family relocated to the

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where his parents lived and worked as missionaries from 1998 to 2008. He learned the guitar and began singing while in the country, developed a fluency in

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, and played in the Dominican baseball league for a year. Upon returning to the US he was homeschooled; in 2009 he attended

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. He had a back-up role playing football on Tennessee Tech's offensive line for his freshman year in 2010. He graduated with a degree in interdisciplinary studies in 2013 and found a job at a local media production company. At the same time he pursued his music career with many local gigs building his popularity.

Career

''The Voice'' (2019)

In 2019, Hoot entered the 17th season of ''The Voice''. In his blind audition, He sang " When It Rains It Pours" by

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turned her chair; thus he was on Team Kelly. He advanced to the finale winning the competition on December 17, 2019. : – Studio version of performance was the most streamed song on

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After ''The Voice''

" Better Off Without You", his coronation-winning song written by Hoot himself, became his first single. Hoot made his

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debut on February 4, 2020.

Personal life

Hoot married Jessica Lynn Steele, an

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nurse, in 2013 and had a daughter, Macy, born in 2015. He released some songs on

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singing to his daughter. The couple divorced in 2017. On March 7, 2021, he married Brittney Hoyt.

Discography

Singles

Other charted songs

References

External links

* - (September 30, 2019) * - (December 17, 2019) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoot, Jake 1988 births 21st-century American singers 21st-century American male singers American country singer-songwriters American new wave musicians Living people People from Corpus Christi, Texas Republic Records artists Singer-songwriters from Texas The Voice (franchise) winners Universal Music Group artists American male singer-songwriters