Glen Cove singer Shye takes second place on 'The Voice'

Glen Cove-raised singer Shye placed second as this season of NBC's "The Voice" wrapped Tuesday night, with fellow Team Michael Bublé member Sofronio Vasquez taking top honors.

"Congrats @sofroniovasquez I love you winnaaaaa," Shye wrote shortly afterward on Instagram Stories, where posts cycle out after 24 hours. In a second post she added, "Y’all I ... wanted 2nd place so bad[.] I am so ... happy right now you don’t even understand."

“I wanted to be No. 2. I wanted to be second place,” the singer told Newsday by phone from Los Angeles on Wednesday. Noting that Vasquez, now a close friend, “deserves it more than anybody else in this entire world,” she explains that, “There's a lot of pressure that goes into being first place. I just didn't feel like first place would suit my wants, especially with the record contract” that is part of the first-prize package and which former “Voice” coaches Blake Shelton and Adam Levine, as well as some former winners, have criticized as constraining, among other issues.

“Yes, exactly,” says Shye. “I told all my friends, ‘Vote for Sofronio, not me. I don't want to get first place.’ Anybody on the team will tell you that. I was like, ‘Ohmigod, if I don't get second, I'll cry.’”

On Tuesday’s live results show, following Monday’s final performance show, Shye and five-time Grammy Award winner Bublé performed a duet of composer C. Carson Parks’ “Somethin’ Stupid,” a 1967 hit for Frank Sinatra and daughter Nancy Sinatra. “I always thought it was such a sweet thing watching [the father and daughter] sing it together,” Bublé, 49, explained of his choice. “And I just thought that I could just be connected with you on something that’s so sweet.”

Just before the winner was announced, Bublé told his protégé, "These are not the last words. No matter what happens, these are just one of the many words that you and I are going to share going into a future together while I watch you make beautiful music ... You have something so special. And I couldn't be happier for you in this moment."

Shye, born Madison Roberts, attended Landing Elementary School, Robert Finley Middle School and Glen Cove High School, earning singing honors and starring in school productions of "In the Heights," "Miss Saigon" and other musicals. In her senior year she transferred to the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, when her family relocated to that city, and graduated this year.

Named multiple years to the Nassau Music Educators Association’s roster of All-County musicians, Shye additionally won the Hauppauge-based LGBT Network’s annual LGBT Got Big Talent competition in 2022.