In addition to 28 No. 1 hits and 10 awards apiece from the ACM and CMT, Blake Shelton reached a whole new fanbase as a coach on The Voice. Shelton left the NBC reality series in May 2023 with an impressive nine wins in 23 seasons. Many fans have openly begged the “Ol’ Red” singer to return to his big red chair. However, Shelton has made it clear that this chapter of his life is about fatherhood. Recently, the GRAMMY nominee looked every inch the proud parent when stepson Zuma Rossdale, 15, made his country music debut. As Zuma’s performance made the rounds on social media, fans began calling for a duet from the two.

Zuma Rossdale Follows in Stepdad Blake Shelton’s Footsteps

After meeting in 2014 while filming The Voice, Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani tied the knot in 2021. Shelton became a stepfather to Stefani’s three sons, whom she shares with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale. And the “Boys Round Here” singer was positively bursting with pride Monday (July 29) as he introduced 15-year-old Zuma to the crowd at his Ole Red bar in Tishomingo, Oklahoma.

“This is him, everybody!” Blake Shelton said, beaming as his middle stepson took the stage.

Sporting a cowboy hat matching Shelton’s, Zuma took his stepfather’s place on the stool and strummed along on his guitar as he sang Zach Bryan’s 2022 hit “Oklahoma Smokeshow.” The 15-year-old followed that performance with another Zach Bryan hit, “Revival.”

As the son of two rockers, the musical gene certainly didn’t skip Zuma. Immediately, fans began calling for a collaboration between the teen and his country star stepfather. “We need a duet,” wrote one fan on X/Twitter.

“Sounds like the kids should be singing together with Blake and Gwen !” another fan chimed in on X/Twitter

A Look At Kingston Rossdale’s Music Career

Zuma Rossdale isn’t the first of Gwen Stefani’s kids to grace the stage at his stepfather’s bar. Older brother Kingston, 18, showed off his musical chops on the same stage last August.

Blake Shelton hyped up his oldest stepson on X/Twitter, promising a show from “a debut artist that will be doing their VERY FIRST public performance.”

“Looking and sounding great at Blake’s place,” one YouTube user commented of Kingston. “What a terrific stepdad he is.’

The eldest of son of pop icon Gwen Stefani and rocker Gavin Rossdale, Kingston, 17, played a series of original songs Friday night inside The Doghouse music hall at Ole Red Tishomingo. An encouraging Oklahoma audience of about 400 music lovers witnessed his debut, said concertgoer Jamie McGaugh, a devoted Shelton fan from Coalgate.

“That’s quite a few people for your first time. … He had to be nervous,” McGaugh told The Oklahoman the day after Kingston’s debut. “He did great. He was really cute. He had really good stage presence, and he worked the crowd.”

Why did teen rocker Kingston Rossdale find a small Oklahoma town a fitting place to perform his first concert?

An Ada native, Shelton, 47, made Tishomingo his adopted hometown several years ago, and he opened his first Ole Red bar, restaurant and music venue in the Johnston County seat in 2017.

Shelton and Stefani, 53, live on the sprawling Ten Point Ranch near Tishomingo; the celebrity couple wed in a specially built chapel on the rural Oklahoma spread on July 3, 2021.

Before the wedding, though, the couple, along with several members of Stefani’s family, quarantined together on the ranch during the COVID-19 pandemic. That included Stefani’s three sons from her previous marriage to Bush frontman Rossdale: Kingston; Zuma, now 14; and Apollo, who is 9.

“In 2020, when the world shut down completely … I was in Oklahoma. Tishomingo, it’s a great place. I met my people here. I got to be outdoors, and I learned guitar,” Kingston told the audience at his Ole Red show.

Since he first learned to make music in Tishomingo, Kingston said he thought the small town would be a fitting place to make his musical debut.

“Although I’m not super country — anywhere near it; I’m sorry — I learned it in the country. So, let’s connect a little bit more,” Kingston tells the crowd in a video of his concert posted to social media.

How did Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani react to her son’s musical debut?

The teenager opened his debut set with a brokenhearted ballad, and he strummed an acoustic guitar for his second song, an angsty alternative-rock ode. In between crooning a few more tunes, Kingston thanked the audience for coming and told them, “I love you guys.”

As he exited the stage, the first-time performer was met by a smiling Shelton, who shook his stepson’s hand, hugged him and patted him on the back.

“I mean, I’m not gonna let him close the show. I’m still in competition mode a little bit,” Shelton quipped as he settled on a stool with his guitar. “I was trying to think, like, ‘How do you follow that?’”

The eight-time Grammy nominee opted to strum the familiar opening to “Don’t Speak,” the 1990s pop smash for his wife’s former rock band No Doubt, which was Stefani’s cue to stroll out and sing the iconic ballad.

The superstar couple performed their chart-topping country duets “Nobody But You” and “Happy Anywhere” to close the show.

“You guys, I’m sure a lot of you can imagine how stressful this night has been for Gwen,” Shelton told the crowd. “Seriously, give it up for Kingston Rossdale. We knew what a great artist he is; we had no idea what kind of live performer he would be. I thought that was incredible.”

Stefani thanked the audience, smilingly crossed herself, looked toward the heavens in an expression of gratitude, applauded her son and made a heart with her fingers.

“Blake knows how the crowd is there and how welcoming they would be. No matter what, they would have been a great crowd for Kingston. So, I feel like that’s why they had it in Tishomingo,” said McGaugh, the Coalgate fan who provided The Oklahoman with photos and videos she took of the concert.

How did Blake Shelton draw a crowd for his stepson’s debut performance?

On X, formerly Twitter, Shelton posted on Aug. 8 that he was thinking to “just maybe play a few songs” at Ole Red Tishomingo later in the week. He’s known to occasionally perform at his bar in his adopted hometown.

The country star followed up on Aug. 9 with his intentions to take the stage at The Doghouse Friday night and “play 30 minutes or so acoustically. Then I’m gonna turn the stage over to a debut artist that will be doing their VERY FIRST public performance!”

On Aug. 10, Shelton posted a last-minute plan to perform at Ole Red Tishomingo that evening in addition to the Aug. 11 show.

Although McGaugh and her mother, Lanell Eclair, also of Coalgate, tried to make it to Tishomingo in time, they missed Shelton’s Thursday night set. But they encountered Stefani outside Ole Red Tishomingo and got to pose for a photo with the pop star.

The mother-and-daughter music fans lined up at 11:30 a.m. Friday to secure a spot in The Doghouse to hear Shelton and the mystery artist.

“They said people started getting there at about 9 a.m.,” McGaugh said. “Even in the 110-degree heat … we were still having a good time. There’s not many people that we would do that for, but Blake is one of them that we will sit out in the heat for.”

Who else played Blake Shelton’s Ole Red Tishomingo Friday night?

McGaugh said doors opened for the waiting fans at about 3 p.m. Friday, with Ada singer-songwriter and “The Voice” Season 23 contestant Emily Rhyne entertaining the crowd from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.

As promised, Shelton took the stage for his acoustic set at about 7:30 p.m.

He played his hits and fan favorites like “God’s Country,” “Honey Bee,” “Sangria,” “Playboys of the Southwestern World,” “Boys ‘Round Here,” “Austin” and, of course, “Ol’ Red,” before turning over the stage to Kingston.

“I was surprised that it was him … but some people had already figured it out,” McGaugh said. “But we were very excited that we got to be there to see it.”