Kissing and Telling with Curtis Grimes

Curtis Grimes, one of the four contestants on The Voice from Texas, is a country song waiting to be written (if it hasn’t already). According to his bio, he walked away from a baseball scholarship for a girl, and like every country song, after she broke his heart, he picked up the guitar to sing about it.

While yes, his southern charm and the twang in his voice give him more of that Texas edge, there is more to Curtis than being a small town country boy. Although, I do read the things he tweets like “Love you boo” in his southern drawl. (@CurtisGrimes). It tends to happen after I have to hear his voice over and over again during the transcribing process. It cracks me up.

For those that saw the last episode of the battle rounds two weeks ago were probably as shocked as I was when Curtis took off his cowboy hat like a gentleman and kissed his competition Emily Valentine. I guess opposites attract?

Turns out though, it was staged.

“Basically, I told Emily, hey, let’s do that because at least, we’ll get talked about the next day,” said Grimes.

And boy, did they. Twitter was a-buzzing with people wondering “are they or aren’t they?” Some websites such as TVLine were amused by the kiss whether it was a set-up or the real deal. People were talking.

“It went over well,” said Grimes.” A lot of people ask me if we’re dating though.”

Before the kissing stunt, Curtis joined Cee Lo Green’s team during his blind audition even though he performed another judge’s (Blake Shelton) song “Hillbilly Bone.” Even though Blake didn’t turn around, Curtis was still happy with the outcome.



“Before they added Blake, Cee Lo would have been my choice,” said Grimes. “I thought if anyone would turn around that Blake would, so I was looking at his chair the whole time. I just saw the light flash and then I looked over to Cee Lo. (I thought,) oh ok, well back to square one.”

Even though Cee Lo and Curtis come from two completely different genres, Curtis welcomes the other perspective.

“It’s cool. He’s got a lot of ideas as far as influxions and how to go about doing a song or the feelings and the emotions behind the singing,” said Grimes. “I’d like to spend more time with him and work with him.”

Tonight Curtis will finally get his chance to perform during the live show. While I don’t know what he’s singing, he did mention on twitter that it’s a rock song turned into a country song. I wonder if that will get the people talking again.