{"id":140163,"date":"2026-02-20T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140163\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:08:07","slug":"watch-kelly-clarkson-john-legend-sing-at-a-new-york-city-karaoke-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140163\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Kelly Clarkson &#038; John Legend sing at a New York City karaoke bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine hanging at a karaoke bar in New York City on a random Thursday when someone gets up to sing \u201cSince U Been Gone\u201d \u2014 and it\u2019s Kelly Clarkson.<\/p>\n<p>The moment is documented on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DU_Cs7XDa3r\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Voice\u2018s Instagram page<\/a>: Kelly, along with fellow Voice coach John Legend and online personality Druski, took the stage at Baby Grand karaoke bar to belt out a few numbers, including \u201cSince U Been Gone\u201d and Bonnie Tyler\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DU_GLykjnFf\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Total Eclipse of the Heart<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On NBC\u2019s Today show Friday morning, The Voice host Carson Daly <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tocmJXyZ970?t=60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">explained that<\/a> on Thursday, he, John and Kelly went out to dinner together, along with Druski and some other people, and then someone suggested they go to the karaoke bar next door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was so loud!\u201d Kelly said of the bar crowd.\u00a0And she was quick to add that singing her own hit wasn\u2019t her idea \u2014 the patrons at the bar got her to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly also explained why this season will be the final one of her talk show. She <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tocmJXyZ970?t=310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said<\/a>, \u201cI think everyone gets the timing,\u201d possibly referring to the death last year of her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, her children\u2019s father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur family life, the dynamic changed a bit and it has changed for a minute now,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s one of those things when you kinda start seeing life as how precious it is, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s just too much on the plate \u2026 it\u2019s time to kinda pull back,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that ending the show impacts the jobs of multiple people, Kelly said, \u201cThat was a really hard thing for me, but an easy decision as a mama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new season of The Voice, featuring Kelly, John and Adam Levine, debuts on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine hanging at a karaoke bar in New York City on a random Thursday when someone gets up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-140163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}