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    Shaking Up The Hometown

    Danielle Bradbery's amazing Voice win hits home — and now League City wants a piece

    Joel Luks
    Jun 19, 2013 | 12:59 pm
    Danielle Bradbery's amazing Voice win hits home — and now League City wants a piece
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    It's not your usual day in Cypress. The Houston suburb typically makes small very local news for things like getting a new ice house, or seeing a high school basketball star sign with a mid major, or rejoicing in a bookworm with top grades landing on the Dean's List at Mercer University.

    Now, it's garnering major national — and even international — headlines courtesy of a perky blonde teen with big vocals.

    Voice champion Danielle Bradbery is certainly giving everyone, including judge/coach/country music star Blake Shelton, something to talk about.

    Yet amid all attention being heaped on Cypress and its 16-year-old hometown champ, there's another Houston suburb that deserves a little love. It turns out, Danielle Simone Bradbery was actually born in League City.

    Emerging as the winner of the fourth season of NBC's The Voice means Bradbery is $100,000 richer, for starters. Of course, the major record deal with University Music Group looms even more important.

    While the winning decision came out of a vote that's the collective sum of viewers phone calls, Internet polls, text messages and iTunes purchases, it's impossible to discount the impact of Shelton's repeated overwhelming endorsements of Bradbery. Shelton calling someone "the most important artist to ever walk across The Voice stage" resonates.

    After a winning performance that included a duet with cutie-pie Hunter Hayes in "I Want Crazy" and solo selections of Sara Evans' "Born to Fly" and Pam Tillis' "Maybe It Was Memphis" — the latter two reaching the Top 10 chart on iTunes — Shelton tells Entertainment Weekly that Bradbery may be the first person truly discovered on the show. Previous contestants had dabbled in show biz before they ever stepped on the TV stage.

    Bradbery says she'd never sung to a large crowd prior to the reality show. Instead, her mirror enjoyed most of her croons. (Which as you can see from the powerful video above was a shame.)

    The youngest winner ever rose above two much older finalists: Michelle Chamuel, 26, and the Swon Brothers, Colton, 24, and Zach, 27. That's no small win for Cypress. Or League City.

    Danielle Simone Bradbery, 16, won season four of NBC's The Voice.

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    Danielle Simone Bradbery, 16, won season four of NBC's The Voice.
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    COMO FLORECE

    Beyoncé celebrates her birthday with surprise 'Como la Flor' mashup

    Brandon Watson
    Sep 4, 2026 | 2:00 pm
    Beyoncé B'Day anniversary edition
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    Beyoncé is paying tribute to the Queen of Tejano Music.

    More than two years after releasing Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé is still refusing to be pinned down by genre. Now, for the expanded 20th anniversary edition of her iconic album B'Day, she is trying on a sparkly purple jumpsuit.

    On Friday, September 4 (her 45th birthday), the Texas superstar released “Irreemplazable,” a mashup of “Irreplaceable” and “Como la Flor.” The bonus track pairs the melody and Spanish-language lyrics of the 2006 Bey hit with the backing track of Selena Quintanilla’s most iconic song — adding a few dubbed verses from the Queen of Tejano herself.

    According to a release, Beyoncé “revered Selena” and credits the late singer for inspiring Irreemplazable, her Spanish EP released in 2007. The mashup was recorded with full approval from Quintanilla’s estate — a rarity since the singer’s passing in 1995.

    In a clip shared on Selena’s official Instagram, Beyoncé recounts meeting the icon at Houston’s Galleria mall before Destiny’s Child brought her fame.

    “Definitely, growing up in Texas, I heard her on the radio,” Beyoncé said. “And I think listening to her album, even though I didn’t know exactly what she was singing, it helped me with my pronunciation in the studio.”

    The release comes as Selena’s family is making headlines for an alleged lawsuit filed by sibling A.B. Quintanilla III against his sister, Suzette Arriaga — a lawsuit Suzette and her mother Marcella deny exists. Still, Selena’s big brother put aside the public squabbling to praise “Irreemplazable.”

    “Two Queens on one cumbia??? Beyoncé and Selena???” wrote Quintanilla on Instagram. “Thank you @beyonce for showing love and recording one of your classics with one of Selena’s classics.”

    Chris Perez, who was married to Selena at the time of her death, was just as effusive.

    “One of my top favorite singers @beyonce just sang along with my absolute favorite singer @selenaqofficial,” he wrote on social media. “I love it!”

    Although some of his fans grumbled, Perez quickly took naysayers to task.

    “Say what you want. Shout out to Beyoncé for showing respect to an ICON. Some of you can be a bit much at times,” he commented.

    The B'Day anniversary edition is streaming now on Spotify and Apple Music. In addition to the “Como la Flor” homage, the album features a new version of “Get Me Bodied” called “Cuerpo Tumbao,” featuring vocals from reggaetón hitmaker Maluma and a sample from Celia Cruz's "La Negra Tiene Tumbao."

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