Felicia Temple

Felicia Temple reached a nationwide audience singing classic doo wop and modern pop on the 12th season of The Voice, but she's a soul-rooted contemporary R&B artist through and through, a singer/songwriter, pianist, and producer who specializes in mature romantic ballads elevated with her lithe vocals. Temple's first solo recordings and collaborations predate her breakthrough on the singing competition. Since appearing on The Voice, she has built an independent discography that includes The Balancing Act (2017), Bedroom Chronicles (2019), and Bedroom Chronicles II (2021), EPs created while she has also juggled background work, survived cancer, and worked as a health professional. Temple, a native of Teaneck, New Jersey, received a rounded musical education in her teens through her musician father, with whom she traveled and performed. After she worked the spotlight at New York City venues such as The Village Underground and SOB's, released her earliest solo material, and was featured on tracks by Joe Budden, she competed on The Voice during season 12 in 2017. Her blind audition cover of "All I Could Do Was Cry," popularized by Etta James and updated by Beyoncé for the film Cadillac Records, won over coach Alicia Keys, a formative personal inspiration. This led to a stay on the show that yielded a commercially released studio recording of the audition song, as well as versions of contemporary pop hits "Titanium" and "Defying Gravity." That June, Temple self-released The Balancing Act. The six-track EP was written and recorded while she was undergoing treatment for carcinoid cancer and working as a registered nurse. Although it wasn't until February 2019 that Temple followed up with Bedroom Chronicles, another EP, the singer had continued work as a headlining performer and backing vocalist, most notably for Deborah Cox. In March 2020, Temple was performing across Europe with An Evening with Whitney Houston: The Whitney Houston Hologram Tour when travel restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a return to the States. Temple had been focused on music full-time since the previous year, but she immediately re-entered the nursing field to work in the intensive care unit of Holy Name Medical Center in her hometown. (She represented frontline healthcare workers as an interviewee during the global broadcast of One World: Together at Home.) By the end of the year, Temple was able to make music again, and in October she returned with "Bomb Love." "How You Do That" followed in 2021 as a prelude to Bedroom Chronicles II, an EP issued in July.
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