Even when I was on The Voice, I didn’t want to just sing a song, I wanted to bring something that was Jordan Smith’s version of whatever song it was that I was singing that was authentic to me.

“They’re songs that connect and have connected so ... a way that I haven’t really used it even since The Voice.” Jordan Smith’s album, The People’s Hymnal, is available now.

American Song Contest, in 2022 and finished in third place. “That was the best I could ask for considering the caliber of talent on that show,” he said. Does Jordan Smith keep in touch with ...