Aiden Ross on winning The Voice, picking Niall over Snoop, and the Lizzy McAlpine duet he wants next

Описание: Aiden Ross still can’t quite wrap his head around it. The 20-year-old Texas A&M student — and the very first artist we met in Season 28 when he opened the Blinds with Adele’s “Love in the Dark” — ended the season exactly where he started: center stage, this time hearing Carson Daly announce him as the winner. The new champ, now Niall Horan’s third straight victor, says the moment transported him straight back to childhood.

“When Carson Daly said my name, I got an immediate flashback,” Ross recalls. “I was six when Season 1 came out, watching with my family in our living room with my little chair turned around … to be on the other side of the screen, and to have won the thing — I keep saying the word surreal, but that’s just what it is.”

Ross says opening and closing the season was “unexpected but an incredible opportunity,” and now that the whirlwind is over, he’s looking ahead to both new music and what comes next in his studies. But first, he walked us through his journey — from picking that first Adele song to choosing Horan, to balancing engineering classes with live shows — in a candid conversation hours after his win. Watch the full video interview above.

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