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Addison Agen was born in Fort Wayne on March 31, 2001, and grew up in a musical household — her father, Morrison Agen, owns Neat Neat Neat Records in Fort Wayne, and her mother Kristine is a music therapist. She began singing at four and writing songs at eleven, and recorded her first album, New Places, in Fort Wayne in 2016. In 2017, while a student at Concordia Lutheran High School, she competed on season 13 of NBC's The Voice: she auditioned with Ray LaMontagne's "Jolene," began on Miley Cyrus's team, was stolen by Adam Levine after the Battle Rounds, and finished as runner-up to Chloe Kohanski in the December 19, 2017 finale, where her original song "Tennessee Rain" reached No. 1 on iTunes.
Fort Wayne answered in kind. Mayor Tom Henry proclaimed January 17, 2018 Addison Agen Day; the Indiana House adopted a concurrent resolution honoring her on January 11, 2018; and her homecoming concert at the Embassy Theatre on January 21, 2018 sold out its 2,500 seats in two and a half hours.
Sources: ACGSI (NBC Team Adam biography and News-Sentinel coverage by Kevin Kilbane, December 19, 2017, and Lisa Esquivel Long, December 28, 2017); Concordia Lutheran High School; Indiana House Republicans news release; The Commercial Review, April 5, 2018.