John Thomas Holiday Jr. is an American operatic countertenor. He was a contestant on season 19 of NBC’s The Voice. His repertoire focuses on the Baroque and contemporary composers. He has performed with several opera companies in the United States.
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John Thomas Holiday Jr. is an American operatic countertenor. His repertoire focuses on the Baroque and contemporary composers. He was a contestant on season 19 of NBC’s The Voice, a vocal competition television series. Holiday was born in 1985 in the city of Rosenberg in Fort Bend County, Texas, to John Holiday, Sr, a welder and Waverly A. Holiday a homemaker who sang and played clarinet. His maternal grandmother, Sandra Mathis Franklin, was the pianist and music director at Missionary Baptist Church. He taught himself to play piano by imitating her, and later the organ. While only 6 or 7 years old he sang solos in church and at Travis Elementary School. He won a spot in the Fort Bend Boys Choir, which led to appearances as a treble soloist in the Houston Symphony’s performances of Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust with Denyce Graves in the role of Marguérite.
He has performed with several opera companies in the United States, toured with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and sung in Shanghai and several European cities. He also sings gospel and jazz; he also sings Gospel and jazz. He later said his models in the counter tenor repertoire were Andreas Scholl and Derek Lee Ragin. He studied at Southern Methodist University from 2003 to 2007, earning a bachelor of music degree in vocal performance. He next enrolled at Juilliard, studied with Marlena Malas and Stephen Wadsworth, and obtained his Artist Diploma in Opera Studies in 2014.
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