Sofronio Vasquez has earned his flowers.
Vasquez was topped the winner of season 26 on The Voice on Tuesday, Dec. 10, making Michael Bublé the successful coach on his debut season.
Vasquez fell to his knees as he was declared the winner. Bublé additionally burst into tears.
“My Filipino brother, you’re the hope of so many individuals… it has been such an unbelievable journey to be right here with you,” Bublé instructed Vasquez earlier than he was named the winner.
He beat out his fellow Bublé contestant Shye, Crew Reba’s Danny Joseph, Crew Snoop’s Jeremy Beloate and Crew Gwen’s Sydney Sterlace.
Vasquez grew up within the Philippines and credit his father for instilling in him a love of singing. He moved to the USA in 2022 to pursue music after the dying of his father.
Throughout his blind audition of Rose Royce’s “I am Goin’ Down,” he earned a four-chair flip and selected Bublé as his coach.
In the course of the Dec. 2 episode, the Canadian crooner gave Vasquez encouraging suggestions after his transferring efficiency of Elvis Presley’s “If I Can Dream.”
“I believe if individuals understood the power that you’ve and the truth that by all of this adversity, you stroll out right here on an evening like tonight, when it in all probability issues greater than something has in your complete life career-wise,” he continued. “You stroll out right here within the second and you’re taking the brass ring and I am simply so comfortable for you.”
Talking to PEOPLE on Dec. 9, Vasquez instructed PEOPLE how he’d rejoice his expertise on the present after the finale, win or lose.
“We’re simply going to rejoice that this was a really, excellent run for The Voice and we actually felt that we’re cherished by the manufacturing and nobody is superior… we’re all cherished. [It’s] in America’s palms for tomorrow,” he mentioned.
