Kelly Clarkson: the pop star and unexpected queen of the 'talk-show' heir to Ellen DeGeneres

How right was the reviewer for

when he wrote that Kelly Clarkson's voice had "a siren's soul".

He said it decades ago, when the singer with a soprano voice stood out in the first promotion of that phenomenon called

Then came the albums, the tours, the Grammys, the fame, her flirtations as an actress, her time on

(the American version of

).

And so, one success after another, gaining followers bewitched by the song of this siren until he was placed in front of her program,

the great winner of the Emmy awards for daytime programming.

A total of seven statuettes in a single year, including Best

and Best presenter.

More Emmy awards in a single year than the three Grammys she has won for an entire recording career that includes albums like

or

and of course more statuettes in one go than the queen of this format until now television, Ellen DeGeneres, who was not even nominated in this edition.

Clarkson did not attend the gala of this highest television distinction that took place at the Pasadena (California) convention center on June 24.

It wasn't arrogance on the part of a star with her feet firmly planted on the ground and for whom, as she always says, her only dream is to sing.

“It was all she wanted, to sing.

In a choir it was enough for me.

Then life, God or whatever had other plans for me, ”she acknowledged a few years ago to EL PAÍS.

The singer is on vacation for the first time in 16 years, she has confessed, along with her children River Rose, eight, and Remington

Alexander, six, and not even her official coronation as

queen changed her plans .

family rest.

A vacation of jeans and T-shirts, without makeup and going unnoticed, as she likes off camera, before embarking on the new challenge of her career: inheriting the prime time slot from DeGeneres now that

has concluded its presence in television after 19 seasons.

Times of change for this 40-year-old performer and artist born in Texas who for decades admired her predecessors, "Ellen, Oprah", and whose wish for the program, the one she leaves behind and the one she now wants to renew, is the to show a kinder and better face of humanity, "that for the rest there is already the news, which is depressing".

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New program and new life.

Clarkson not only says goodbye to her participation in the game show

, but can finally say goodbye to her former agent and her husband, Brandon Blackstock.

It has taken them two years to divorce the stepson of fellow singer Reba McEntire.

She made it difficult for him until the end, when she barricaded herself in the ranch in Montana (USA) that Clarkson bought years ago for just over 10 million dollars (9.8 million euros) and where the then couple spent the pandemic. .

Throwing him out cost the singer 1.25 million euros tax-free, in addition to 5.12% of the value of the mansion, the 109,000 euros per month of spousal support that he will have to give her until 2024 and the almost 43,000 euros per month for child support until they come of age, children Blackstock has no custody of and can only see once a month.

The figures are high, but so are the more than 21 million euros that Clarkson earns annually as a result of her work both as a singer and as a presenter.

A price that she has not minded paying to call herself Kelly Brianne again, her first name that she has adopted personally, as when she was "that girl that nobody noticed until she sang ”, as she likes to describe herself.

Professionally, she will continue to be Ella Clarkson because, as she declared to the press, after 20 years of success she is a little late to change it.

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Nor does he plan to change his style.

Both personally and professionally, music is everything to her.

Personally, it was her refuge during these two years of divorce, using her songs, her own or those of others, to process her emotions, as demonstrated by the punches she threw at her now ex-husband during her performance of

, changing the lyrics of the song. by Billie Eilish.

And professionally,

would not be what it is without the siren song that is heard in its

that karaoke that is so unique to it, in which more than 500 classic songs and something more recent, pop or rock, have already been performed. , throughout three seasons of the program.

"That's how I started the

singing a minute and a half or two of the artists that I love before highlighting the people who inspire me, or have inspired me, and thus get that connection with the public, something not unlike what I do on tour " , then described his television technique.

Kelly Clarkson, along with two guests on her morning talk show: actresses Susan Kelechi Watson and Jessica Biel.

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To know how your program will change from September, we will have to wait to see it.

The positioning of her in the schedule that Ellen DeGeneres occupied until now is more than just a change in the television grid.

It is a declaration of principles that wants to bring the spirit of

format

so in need of a reform so that, as the NBC network hopes, it connects "with people of all ages, cultures and origins."

Like Clarkson's sweet yet confident voice did two decades ago on