This young singer is fighting the odds to appear on “The Voice”. On Tuesday, 19-year-old Berritt Haynes took the stage during the Blind Auditions to perform Shawn Mendes’ “Mercy”.
RELATED: ‘The Voice’: Kelly Clarkson Nearly Falls Out Of Her Chair When The Cunningham Sisters Pick Her Team When the singer was only 8-years-old, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, often referred to as “sudden death disease,” which causes heart muscle to become abnormally thick and unable to easily pump blood. “I’m truly grateful to be alive,” he told Carson Daly.
As clips on the show explain, Haynes goal, submitted to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, was originally just to attend a taping of “The Voice” in order to be in the audience, though that dream was quashed
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