Snoop Dogg, Michael Bublé Join The Voice Season 26 Alongside Returning Coaches Reba McEntire and Gwen Stefani

The hip-hop icon and Grammy-winning singer both served as mentors during previous seasons of the music competition series

Snoop Dogg and Michael Buble Join The Voice Season 26 as New Coaches
Snoop Dogg; Michael Bublé. Photo:

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The Voice is adding some serious all-star talent to its already-stacked coaching panel this fall.

Snoop Dogg and Michael Bublé have officially onboarded the Emmy-winning music competition series for season 26, NBC confirmed at its upfront presentation at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall on Monday, May 16. The hip-hop icon/entertainment mogul, 52, and Grammy-winning, multi-platinum singer, 48, are both friends of The Voice, with Bublé being a guest advisor to Team Blake during season three, while Snoop was featured as a season 20 mega mentor.

Snoop and Bublé teased their coaching news a day before the announcement on X, with the former writing, “Yo hit me @MichaelBuble 📱 🎶,” and following up with a photo of the two.

Bublé responded to his fellow coach’s post with a gif of a cat wearing sunglasses captioned, “‘Sup, homie!”

The dynamo duo joins returning coaches and industry veterans Gwen Stefani and Reba McEntire, the latter of whom is also airing a brand-new NBC sitcom called Happy’s Place this fall. The current coaching panel includes the “I'm a Survivor” singer, John Legend, Chance the Rapper, and Dan+ Shay. The forthcoming season of The Voice will mark McEntire’s third consecutive season on the show and Stefani’s eighth. 

 Snoop Dogg performs during the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show at SoFi Stadium on February 13, 2022
Snoop Dogg performs during the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show at SoFi Stadium on February 13, 2022 in Inglewood, California.

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Season 26 hasn’t set a premiere date yet, as season 25 is still currently airing, but NBC notes the show will return sometime this fall.

The Voice is just the start of Snoop’s upcoming NBCUniversal collaborations. The rap superstar, already known as Coach Snoop in the sports world, will contribute to the network’s Summer Olympics coverage in Paris as an official NBC host. He also has a life-spanning biopic currently in development with Universal Pictures, with Allen Hughes onboard as director. The forthcoming film will also be produced by Snoop, Hughes, Brian Grazer, and Sara Ramaker.

 Michael Buble performs at Rod Laver Arena on June 16, 2023
Michael Bublé performs at Rod Laver Arena on June 16, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia.

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Most recently, Bublé teamed up with Jason Derulo for their “Spicy Margarita” single, which was released on Jan. 25, along with a Las Vegas-set music video that dropped on April 8. Speaking of the song to PEOPLE, the “Higher” singer said, “A hit song with Jason Derulo and Michael Bublé was probably not on most people’s 2024 bingo cards.” Bublé added, “But I love that both of us are doing something that was this unexpected and still it resonates.”

The Voice continues Monday at 8 p.m. ET/PT with a two-hour semi-final.

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