Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine got a little personal on The Voice on Monday night (March 23) during the Battle of Champions round. When Team Adam singers Drew Russell and Jared Shoemaker took to the stage to sing the emotional duet ballad “Leather and Lace” from Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks’ 1981 debut solo album, Bella Donna, Levine shared that the song had a very special meaning to him.
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After fellow coach Kelly Clarkson gave the duo high praise, saying she felt like she as “at your concert,” before complimenting the pair on how their voices complement each other, Levine stepped up to talk about his tie to the track. “This song to me is just a heavyweight champion of songs in my life,” said Levine, 47.
“Like, I sang this song with Stevie Nicks to my wife at our wedding, you know what I mean?,” he added as Clarkson shouted a shocked, “what?!” and John Legend put his hand on his heart in surprise.
“I did. That happened, it really happened,” Levine assured his fellow coaches. “I think it really happened. I pinch myself sometimes.” Because of his close connection to the song, Levine said it made it “even harder” for him to remain objective about the performance. “I was gonna be uber-critical of it, and in the rehearsals, to be completely honest, the promise was there and the vibe was there, but it just wasn’t where it needed to be yet.”
In the end, Levine called their performance “so beautiful,” praising Russell for being “so Stevie-esque” and Shoemaker for handling Henley’s tricky part. “You crushed it,” he said.
Levine and Prinsloo, 37, were married in San José del Cabo, Mexico in July 2014 and have three children, daughters Dusty Rose, 9, Gio Grace, 8, and a three-year-old son whose name they have not publicly revealed.
Maroon 5 are gearing up for a brief South American tour that is slated to kick off on April 25 at Coliseo Medplus in Bogota, Colombia.
Watch Russell and Shoemaker’s performance of “Leather and Lace” below.
