Dan Kiernan exits ‘The Voice’ after knockout round

Despite a powerful yet nuanced rendition of R&B singer Shontelle’s up-tempo “Impossible,” Amityville’s Dan Kiernan lost in the Knockout Round of “The Voice” Monday night and is off the NBC singing competition.

Pitted against Tinika Wyatt, a fellow teammate on coach / mentor Kelsea Ballerini’s roster, who performed the Bee Gees’ “Best of Your Love,” Kiernan delivered an emotionally raw take on composers Arnthor Birgisson and Ina Wroldsen’s song about regret over caution in a love affair that led it to end. Dressed in a glittering, studded black-leather suit, black T-shirt and silver necklace, he delivered a performance of dynamic highs and lows — and a dramatic pause after one lyric to then come punching back hard on the next. He concluded with a sustained vibrato.

“Dan, it feels like you have a higher purpose when you’re performing,” coach John Legend told him afterward. “And I love the intention that I felt in every note that you sang.” Coach Adam Levine added, “There’s something about your voice. It fills this whole room. Obviously your physical presence as well. All of it together is really engaging and it’s really special.”

And ever-excitable coach Michel Bublé gushed, “Dan, you were like two different people! You went from Bruce Banner, so composed, then you turned into the Incredible Hulk! … And I was like, ‘Go, Hulk, go!’”

Country-music star Ballerini said making a decision between the two singers “is very hard for me. I want to honor what happened today.” After a pause, she announced Wyatt as the winner.

In last week’s Battle Round, Kiernan, 34, bested Jessica Manalo on Chappell Roan’s 2024 power-pop ballad “Good Luck, Babe!” On the “Voice” season-27 premiere on Feb. 3, his rendition of “High Hopes” by the emo-punk group Panic! At the Disco earned him a place on Ballerini’s team.

Born in West Islip and raised in Amityville Kiernan is a wedding singer professionally who also has performed at such Manhattan venues as The Bitter End, The Bowery Electric and Sony Hall and regularly at gay pride festivals. Since 2022, Kiernan has produced a regular showcase, the New York City Queer Music Festival, at the Brooklyn club 3 Dollar Bill.