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'The Voice' contestants Kat Perkins and Nicholas David find lasting success in Minnesota

One-time national contestants have come home to build their careers.

By Jon Bream

June 25, 2020 at 9:37PM

Former "Voice" contestants Kat Perkins and Nick Davis in the Dunsmore Jazz Room at Crooners Supper Club. Former "Voice" contestants Kat Perkins and Nick Davis, who both have found success, but in different ways. Kat Perkins and Nick Davis were photographed Thursday night, April 16, 2020 in the Dunsmore Jazz Room at Crooners Supper Club in Fridley. (Anna Boone — Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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Jon Bream

Critic / Reporter

Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.