Weeki Wachee Singer Makes Team Reba On The Voice

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00:00On the phone right now is a guy who's making us proud, representing WikiWatche, and we got an email from his mom saying,

00:06Hey, you gotta check out my baby boy, which I thought, of course, we're gonna check him out if he's representing us in a great way.

00:12On The Voice, ladies and gentlemen, Donnie Van Sleeve!

00:17What's up, man? How you doing?

00:19Good.

00:20So, I mean, this has to be a whirlwind. I'm sure you're getting lots of texts from people now that they've seen you on TV,

00:25and people don't know this process and what goes into it, so kind of give us,

00:30the start to what we saw on TV last night for you.

00:33Yeah, so I'm a full-time chiropractor in Nashville now, but I started doing all my music and my shows.

00:41I'm from WikiWatche, and I went to Central High School, Middle School.

00:46I went to West Fernando, and I played all over town before I went to chiropractor school and then moved to Nashville.

00:53And, yeah, The Voice just called me one day, and they asked me to send in some music,

00:59and they liked me, and they brought me on the show.

01:01Wow.

01:02So they found you just, like, on your viral videos and stuff like that?

01:07They just found me. I don't know.

01:11That's pretty crazy.

01:12Did you think it was a joke when you first got an email?

01:14Yeah, I was like, this isn't real.

01:16So they asked me to send them three songs, so I sent them three songs.

01:21I sent them Feathered Indian by Tyler Childers.

01:23I sent them You Never Even Called Me By My Name by David Allen Coe.

01:27Okay.

01:28And I sent them Good Directions by Billy Crank.

01:31Wow.

01:31And, yeah, and they liked it.

01:34That's awesome, man.

01:35They asked me to, for an interview, and they liked the interview.

01:41So one random day when I was at the office, because I'm living in Nashville full-time,

01:46doing music and chiropractic, I get a random call from somebody like,

01:50hey, we'd love to have you on The Voice.

01:52And I'm like, really?

01:53She was like, yeah.

01:54And I'm like, like on TV.

01:56Exactly.

01:57That's so cool.

01:58And then a patient walks in, like, right after.

02:00Yeah, right.

02:01All right, got to get back to work.

02:02We'll call you back, Voice.

02:03We've got things to do here.

02:04We've got backs to crack.

02:05I told him, like, hey, let me call you back.

02:08That's great.

02:09Talking to Donnie Vansley of WikiWatch.

02:12He's 30 years old.

02:13He is now on The Voice.

02:14He is on Team Reba.

02:16Yeah.

02:16Which is pretty cool.

02:17Yes.

02:18Let's go.

02:19Yeah.

02:19So let me ask you a question.

02:20So after you picked your team, obviously, you had Dan and Shay turn around.

02:24You had Reba turn around.

02:25Dan and Shay were blocked.

02:26So you couldn't go with them.

02:28But, you know, the queen of country music, Reba McIntyre, what does she say to you after

02:33you walk off stage?

02:34I mean, other than giving you chicken fingers.

02:36Well, they gave me the chicken nuggets and I was eating those and they brought me back

02:41to, they just shuttled me back to a hotel and then all my family was there and I got

02:47to just take it all in.

02:49Yeah.

02:49That's awesome.

02:50So what do you do?

02:51You shut down your chiropractic clinic then for a while and say I closed until further

02:55notice.

02:56I don't know when I'm going to be back.

02:57Yeah.

02:58So I work for a really amazing chiropractic company and yeah, I told them like when they

03:04were going to hire me that I might be on The Voice and they're like, oh, okay.

03:08That's great.

03:09Well, it's great for him because this is only going to make business go up now.

03:12It's like, hey, everybody, Donnie can do your back and stuff and straighten you out.

03:16I would say that like the coolest part about being on the show was all the contestants that

03:23we got to hang out with and meet.

03:25Like everybody that's on the show got to spend a lot of time together and we became really

03:30close.

03:30There's a lot of jam sessions going on.

03:33Everyone was so talented.

03:35It was just really cool.

03:36Awesome, man.

03:37Well, you're making us proud.

03:39We can't wait to follow your journey on The Voice and we appreciate you coming on the

03:42show with us.

03:43Yeah, so I'm in Nashville.

03:44I just released my debut album, 31.

03:48Okay.

03:49That came out last Friday.

03:51Doing as country as I can, going down to Texas.

03:54We're going to be doing a nice tour out there.

03:57Good for you, man.

03:57Well, let us know when you come back to your hometown and we'll come and visit you.

04:01All right, man.

04:02Awesome.

04:03Well, thanks for letting us know.

04:04We appreciate you, man.

04:05And good luck with everything, okay?

04:07Thanks.

04:08All right.

04:08Good to see you guys.

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