New 'Masked Singer' Champion Medusa Opens Up About How Her Infant Son Influenced Her Performances

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With every appearance during the ninth season ofthis year, the character known as Medusa delivered raw, powerful, emotional performances that raised the bar for the show as a whole.

On Wednesday, fans finally got to see who was under the beautiful and elaborate mask.After all the panelists made their final guesses at the end of the grand season 9 finale — in which Medusa faced off against the defeated The Macaw — the golden-voiced gorgon unmasked and was revealed to be songstress Bishop Briggs.ET spoke with Briggs on Wednesday, and the «River» singer opened up about her time on the show — which came just a few months after she and husband Landon Jacobs welcomed their son.«At the time of filming, I was six months postpartum,» Briggs recalled. «So I was pumping, I was performing, I was showing multiple different sides of myself at once.

So being able to lean into that… made a huge difference.»In Wednesday's finale, both she and The Macaw — who was revealed to be singer and alum David Archuleta — belted out two songs each, and both gave stunning, emotional performances.Archuleta, as The Macaw, sang «Hold Back the River» by James Bay and Eric Carmen's «All By Myself.» Meanwhile, Briggs belted out Sia's «Elastic Heart» and closed out the season with a pounding, powerful performance of «Welcome to the Black Parade» by My Chemical Romance.Both performers won over the hearts of the show's stalwart panelists — including Robin Thicke, Ken Jeong, Nicole Scherzinger and Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg — and host Nick Cannon, but Briggs' wild and explosive final performance won over the audience in a big way.The «Wild Horses» songstress explained to ET how she took inspiration from the women of the world who have been in a similar place,.