You voted, and the results are in. “CBS Mornings” announced Tuesday that the winner of their Mixtape Music Competition is Kyndle Wylde.
“This has been such a journey to get to this point here and it’s very surreal, but very grateful,” Wylde said on “CBS Mornings” after she was announced as the winner.
The singer-songwriter grew up outside of Memphis. She sang in her family’s church worship band and moved to Nashville to pursue her dreams of a career in music.
For the competition, talented musicians from all over the country sent their covers of Johnny Nash’s legendary song “I Can See Clearly Now”.
Hundreds of entries in the competition were reduced to 14 semifinalists and three finalists before Wylde was crowned the winner.
“There are so many talented people out there in America and I knew that going into it, and so I definitely wanted to put my best foot forward with something I felt really confident about,” she said.
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Her husband, Adam, is the one who came up with the soulful arrangement for the song that she and her band performed.
“Everything that we are and grew up listening to, we just put who we are into it,” she said.
Before the announcement Tuesday, “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King called Wylde to tell her she won.
“We set it up and you thought you’d be talking to someone about marketing or advertising, so she didn’t know it was a call to say she won,” King explained.
Wylde learned she was the winner several weeks ago, after voting closed on August 13, and she joked that she had managed to keep the secret.
“The No. 1 person I couldn’t tell was my grandmother because if she knew, everybody would know,” Wylde said.
Wylde will be featured in a new national advertising campaign for “CBS Mornings.”