Country singer Sundance Head, who gained Season 11 of ‘The Voice,’ was injured by a stray bullet at his ranch in Texas on Friday, his agent mentioned.
Head, 46, was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Tyler, the place he was recovering after being stabilized, agent Trey Newman mentioned in an announcement.
The spherical lodged in a fatty space of Head’s abdomen, he mentioned. No surgical procedure was scheduled. “We are awaiting additional particulars of this accident,” Newman mentioned.
Head’s spouse, Misty, mentioned on Sundance’s verified Facebook web page that surgical procedure can be pointless.
“Bullet went in above his navel and lodged into his belly wall lacking all important organs,” she wrote. “He is not going to require surgical procedure as they don’t seem to be eradicating the bullet.”
She known as for prayers for her husband earlier within the day.
Newman mentioned the spherical that injured Head seemingly got here from a close-by hunter’s errant gunfire.
“At this time we don’t have data on precisely the way it occurred however are 100% optimistic it was not self inflicted,” he mentioned.
A spokesperson for the Smith County Sheriff’s Office didn’t instantly reply to a request for extra data.
Head posted a photograph of the within of a big tent early Friday, stating, “Woke up this morning to the sound of silence.”
Head was coached by Blake Shelton when he gained “The Voice” in 2016. He toured with Shelton the subsequent 12 months, launched an album in 2022 — certainly one of 4 in his profession — and returned to the present for Shelton’s send-off final 12 months, in keeping with his present bio.
Though Head’s father, Roy Head, was a famous musician, the singer did not begin to make inroads in music till he was 33. By the time he reached “The Voice” for Season 11, he had been thwarted in his makes an attempt to advance past the semifinals on “American Idol,” in keeping with an NBC community replace on the performer.
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