Kelly Clarkson Performed 'I Dream In Southern' With Kaleb Lee On 'The Voice'

Kelly Clarkson and former "The Voice" contestant Kaleb Lee performed their new song "I Dream in Southern" on Tuesday night's episode of the show. After last season of "The Voice," Clarkson reached out to Lee, who she coached on the show, with a song that she wanted to record with him. He agreed, and the two released it this year.

Fans seemed to love the performance.

"That’s why I love Kelly. During the show and afterwards, she always shows support to her artists. I also love seeing artists like Caleb Lee do well after the show," one fan said.

"Good seeing Kaleb back on the Voice. Loved that Kelly sung with him. Loved the performance. Kelly shows that she cares about the people she has on her team. You gotta love Kelly," another wrote.

Lee spoke to PopCulture.com about how the collaboration came to be.

"Kelly and her husband Brandon [Blackstock] have really taken me in, and just helped me in so many ways. She sent me a song shortly after the show, a song called 'I Dream in Southern.' And it was an incredible song. We went through the process of trying to figure out if there was going to be another record or not, and finally it did make it obviously," he told the outlet.

"And then I did a show with her, on her tour, her Meaning of Life Tour in March of last year," he continued. "She said 'Hey, I wanna sing a song with you,' and I was like 'That would be awesome. Let's do it.' And then she's like 'No, I really wanna sing this song with you. I wanna record the song with you.'"

Lee told PopCulture.com that he had pretty much given up on the music business before "The Voice" contacted him to audition.

"Probably like anybody else in the industry, I had more no's than yeses. It's a journey, right? At the time though, it was a season in my life where I was newly married, we had a new baby and we had just found out another one was on the way. So for me, it was like the gut check moment of, 'Alright, husband, dad, what are you going to do?' We just decided to get away from music for a while, and for us it wasn't necessarily running away from music, but it was running toward our family," he said.

"And so we picked a place in Florida which we at least we thought was gonna be far enough away from music that we won't be tempted to get back in," he continued. "We'll just kind of start a new life and do our thing. So that's what we did for almost 10 years. And then all of a sudden I get a message from somebody on The Voice saying, 'Would you be willing to audition?' And here we are."