Blake Shelton Says He’d Have a Much Different Job If He Wasn’t a Country Star

The Voice Coach alum worked as a roofer for a couple summers in Oklahoma.

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From his impressive tenure as a Coach on The Voice to his many award-winning songs and his very first job as a roofer, Blake Shelton has certainly reached multi-hyphenate status. And, as it turns out, if his country music career hadn’t taken off as it did, Shelton believes he’d still be building houses.

These days, Shelton and Gwen Stefani, who’ve been married since 2021, make music together while spending time as a family on their Oklahoma ranch. And if that ranch should ever need new shingles, Shelton has some experience up his sleeve.

Blake Shelton revealed he’d be “roofin’ houses” if he wasn’t a country music star

During an interview with CBS This Morning, Gayle King asked Shelton what he’d be doing as a profession if he wasn’t a musician. The country star revealed he’d be working with his hands.

“[I’d] probably still be roofin’ houses. That’s what I was doing before,” Shelton answered.

“You know how to roof houses?” King asked

“Not anymore,” Shelton responded. “I blocked that out of my mind. I’d have to relearn now.”

In a 2018 video ahead of The Voice Season 15, Shelton revealed that roofing houses in Ada, Oklahoma was actually his first job. “I did it for two summers,” Shelton said before adding, “It made me want to be a country singer.”

Blake Shelton performs on stage in a cowboy hat and curly long hair

Blake Shelton performing as part of the Shock’n Y’ All Fall tour 2003 on August 30, 2003 at Shoreline Amphitheater, CA.

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Fortunately for Shelton and his fans, he hasn’t had to get back on a ladder since he made his debut in the country music scene in 2001 with the release of his hit single “Austin.” Through the years, he’s recorded 13 studio albums, opened a chain of Ole Red bars and restaurants, and served as a Coach on The Voice for a whopping 23 seasons.

But long before Shelton was roofing or becoming a member of the Grand Ole Opry, Shelton was singing at beauty pageants to get experience on stage.

“My mom would enter me in pageants, like literally pageants, so I could sing on the talent portion,” Shelton shared on The Kelly Clarkson Show in 2020, adding that he would cover rock songs like Ted Nugent’s “Cat Scratch Fever,” which he said “didn’t go over well with the soccer moms in the audience.”