(KAIR)--An Atchison native, turned California resident, is now a contestant on a popular network television vocal competition.

Durrell Anthony, who sang in church as a child, later attended college on a vocal scholarship, later tuning his longtime love of music into a full time career. That has now earned him a chance to compete on this season of NBC TV’s singing competition “The Voice,” selecting recording artist, and “The Voice” judge, John Legend to serve as his coach after successfully passing the Blind Audition segment of the show earlier this month.

Durrell took time from preparing for the competion to talk to Brian Hagen of Atchison's KAIR FM 93.7.