FOLEY, Mo. — The 16-year-old, self-taught musician and singer from Foley, Missouri, advanced once again on "The Voice."
Ruby Leigh and contestant Al Boogie sang "Jolene" by Dolly Parton during the second stage of the show known as the Battles.
Coaches Niall Horan, John Legend and Gwen Stefani all had high praise for the Missouri native as well as her opponent. Her coach, Reba McEntire, had the final say in who would move on to the next round.
McEntire ultimately chose Leigh to advance to the third stage of the competition.
Watch the full performance below:
She announced on a Facebook live post on Sunday that fans can expect to see her in the battle rounds this week.
Leigh took to Facebook to invite local fans to another watch party at JP's Hideout in Cottleville for tonight's show.
She blew the judges away with her blind audition. She performed Patsy Montana's "I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart," making all four chairs turn.
The judges loved her yodeling skills. After the audition, singer and vocal coach John Legend said, "you could win 'The Voice."'
Leigh ultimately decided to join Reba McEntire's team.
In an interview before her first appearance on the show, Leigh said the opportunity was a shock.
"I come from a very, very small town of Foley. It's a town of 68 people," Leigh said. "I do not come from a musical background at all. No one sings, no one plays instruments, there are no musical aspects to my family except for me. I come from a very non-musical family," Leigh said.
Leigh said she started singing and performing when she was 9 1/2 years old. She started singing in her dad's race car shop and blossomed from there. She posted videos of herself singing on Facebook and took off on social media from there.
She said that performing in the first round was "absolutely insane" because she is from a small town, and she feels like it's the first big thing to happen to Foley. She said she is very glad to represent Foley and show what the town can do.
Leigh said she actually started the audition process as a joke because she didn't think she would make it.
"Me and my sister thought it would be kind of funny to just do this audition and send in something that I'm not really familiar with … something that's different from me … so I sent in heavy rock songs as my audition (tape) … we thought that was funny," she said.
As she started to build momentum through "The Voice" audition process, she said started taking the audition a little more seriously. That's when she started singing more country, which was her original genre. Eventually, talent recruiters asked her to sing in another audition because she had such a good country voice.
"I'm glad they noticed that because man … it just took off and now I'm doing this," she said. "I'm not nervous. I feel really good, I know that I have my fan base behind me which I call my 'fan-mily' because they're just fans that turned into family. They're amazing and it's really just a treat."
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