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Aiden Ross<\/a> can officially add himself to the list of singers who have won\u00a0The Voice<\/a><\/em>. After being crowned the champion<\/a> of Season 28 during the December 16 finale, the college student is now looking forward to taking his music career to the next level.<\/p>\n \u201cI have a song that\u2019s fully produced and mixed that I will be releasing within the next month that I will be dropping videos about over the next few days that I\u2019m super excited about,\u201d Aiden told TV Insider. \u201cI think the song perfectly encapsulates my artistry and the person I want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n The 20-year-old added that he thinks there\u2019s a \u201chole in the industry\u201d for male singers like Lizzy McAlpine or Olivia Dean, and he wants to fill that void. \u201cI think this song, there\u2019s something really honest about it,\u201d he shared. \u201cIt has a live sound to it that Lizzy and Olivia Dean have that I think people are going to love.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition to the upcoming song, Aiden also has \u201ca lot of songs\u201d in the pipeline that are \u201cliterally a week-session in the studio away from being produced and ready to put out.\u201d<\/p>\n We also caught up with the Texas A&M student about competing on the show while in school, celebrating his win with Niall Horan<\/a>, and more. Scroll down for the full chat!<\/p>\n You had such a unique situation because you\u2019re still in school \u2013 how did that work?<\/b><\/p>\n Aiden Ross:<\/strong> I wasn\u2019t a full-time student. I was part-time. I was just taking an online class, which was super, super manageable. I think next semester, I plan to continue to do school, as long as I am able to give absolutely everything I need to give to continuing doing music. If I can do that doing one online class, two online classes, if I need to drop out, I will drop out. It\u2019s whatever I need. But I think next semester, I\u2019ll try to do one or two online classes still. It\u2019s less about having a plan B, it\u2019s more about what an opportunity it is to go and get an education and stimulate my brain, this engineering brain that I have that can\u2019t shut up and turn off. It would be great to stimulate it using something that isn\u2019t music. Also, education\u2019s just a great thing, so I think that would be the right decision.<\/p>\n This season you didn\u2019t have any live shows until the Finals where the viewers were making the decisions. You didn\u2019t know going into the finale where you stood with the viewers. How did that affect your mindset?<\/b><\/p>\n It was a little daunting because it wasn\u2019t quite proven yet on paper, but I knew I had a wonderful Aggie community behind me. I knew I had people who were loving and supporting me. For me, it was less about whether I thought I could win the show and more about what I wanted to do. I knew that if I left it all out there, if I gave everything I could to the performance and felt like I left everything on the table, win or lose, I would\u2019ve been happy with myself.<\/p>\n Who was in the audience supporting you that night and how did you celebrate afterwards?<\/b><\/p>\n I had my family and my girlfriend. We hung out with Niall after. We went out with Niall, Gina [Miles]<\/a>, and Niall\u2019s crew, a couple people, and we just had a good time. We kind of just talked about stuff outside the show, too, just hung out and had a good time and enjoyed the night. It was really fun. It was really great to have my family there, the sacrifice they made in taking off work to come see me because they believed in me, and [that] they believed I could do it meant the world.<\/p>\n Trae Patton\/NBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Do you remember what Niall said to you afterwards, and what advice will you take moving forward?<\/b><\/p>\n Before the finale, one thing he told me<\/a> that really grounded me, he was like, \u201cMan, it\u2019s great you\u2019re in the finale, this is a big deal, but you can\u2019t let it be that. You have to treat it like every other performance. Don\u2019t let it get to your head.\u201d The thing that he helped anchor me to was, \u201cYour best performance is the one you\u2019re having the most fun in and the one you\u2019re loving what you\u2019re doing in.\u201d That\u2019s really what I tried to harness in the finale, just loving music for what it is and letting the song speak for itself with \u201cGolden Hour\u201d [by JVKE] and \u201cWinner Takes It All\u201d [by ABBA<\/a>]. I think that\u2019s what won me the show, ultimately, is looking like I loved what I was doing and that I was made for it and just living in the moment.<\/p>\n Did you have input on the song choices?<\/b><\/p>\n I had input. I picked \u201cThe Winner Takes It All.\u201d I brought it to them, I made the arrangement. I had it produced by a guy in Nashville who\u2019s really great with strings. \u201cGolden Hour\u201d was mixed input. I was super grateful to Niall and the band members and music director who believed in my vision for \u201cWinner Takes It All.\u201d I did the song differently. It wasn\u2019t the original version. It was a true ballad. I had an orchestra on stage with me and there\u2019s no orchestra in the original. There\u2019s no drums in my version. I\u2019m wearing a white suit. I said, \u201cWhite suit, orchestra version, people on stage with me playing orchestra.\u201d And they accepted it with open arms and believed in me and trusted me and it ended up winning me the show. I\u2019m forever indebted to them for believing in me.<\/p>\n Are you planning on staying in Texas?<\/b><\/p>\n That\u2019s a little bit more of a long-term decision. For now, I can just come out to L.A. I have friends I can stay with. I\u2019m 100% open to moving to L.A. or Nashville or New York, wherever I need to be. I\u2019m ready to go all in on it. But still in Texas for the holidays.<\/p>\n You had an impressive social following compared to the other finalists \u2013 have you always had a bit of a presence or did that really just come from the show?<\/b><\/p>\n It immediately grew from the show. The show took it off for me, which was really cool to see. That helped me with a little bit of confidence regarding the voting thing. But at the end of the day, I don\u2019t know who votes on this thing, whether it\u2019s the moms on Facebook, the kids on Instagram, people on TikTok. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s all of them. But Ralph [Edwards] had less followers than some other people on Instagram, and he came in second. The people on Facebook love him. It\u2019s just all types of different demographics. The following\u2019s been great. The fans are incredible. I don\u2019t even like calling them fans, it\u2019s weird. Welcome to the family, we\u2019re one big happy family.<\/p>\n The Voice<\/strong><\/em>, Season 29 Premiere, Monday, February 23, 2026, 9\/8c, NBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n