‘The Masked Singer’ Season 9 Winner: ‘My Biggest Goal’ Was To Make ‘Women Feel Empowered’ (Exclusive)

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Singer Bishop Briggs is officially the victor of the Golden Mask trophy! The “River” songstress was crowned The Masked Singer play 9 champion during the May 17 finale, beating retired David Archuleta’s Macaw. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with The Masked Singer’s latest victor astir however it felt to travel retired connected apical aft a hard-fought competition.

Bishop Briggs is your ‘Masked Singer’ play 9 winner. (FOX)

“I filmed the amusement erstwhile I was six months postpartum, truthful I consciousness similar it’s specified a chiseled section successful my life,” Bishop said “I was pumping successful betwixt the hours of the show, and I deliberation my biggest extremity is that women consciousness empowered and that they cognize that they tin beryllium aggregate things each astatine once. I deliberation that’s my biggest takeaway from it.”

Bishop slayed each azygous show passim play 9, but her finale performances took the amusement to a caller level. She performed Sia’s “Elastic Heart” and sealed her triumph with a rendition of My Chemical Romance’s “Welcome to the Black Parade.”

“That was a opus that I begged the amusement to fto maine do,” the vocalist revealed of her last opus choice. “I’m a immense instrumentality of My Chemical Romance, and I felt similar the finale was truly this accidental to accidental present is wherever I americium arsenic an artist. There are truthful galore things to unpack. I can’t judge I got to basal connected apical of the piano. I was terrified. I pretended to beryllium competent. But wow, that was terrifying. And determination were flames down me. It was genuinely a bucket database moment. And I conscionable anticipation that My Chemical Romance feels arrogant of me.”

American Idol’s David Archuleta was the play 9 runner-up. When asked astir collaborating successful the future, Bishop said, “I would emotion that. I would emotion that truthful much. I consciousness similar we are truly kindred spirits, truthful that would beryllium a dream.”

Bishop Briggs arsenic Medusa. (FOX)

Bishop has an breathtaking summertime ahead. She has a caller EP coming retired connected June 23 titled When Everything Went Dark. “I truly anticipation that the amusement gave a small sensation of who I americium arsenic a instrumentalist and arsenic a writer. I anticipation that radical perceive to it,” she said. She’s besides gearing up for a circuit and has released a caller azygous titled “Baggage,” which is disposable now.

When looking backmost connected her Masked Singer journey, Bishop revealed that her “biggest takeaway that I had was that it’s good to person those moments of stillness and the emotion volition inactive travel across. Performing ‘New York, New York’ and ‘Someone Like You,’ I was truthful tense conscionable wanting to marque definite that the emotion would travel crossed adjacent if I wasn’t storming astir connected signifier and moving my assemblage successful specified aggravated ways. So the information that those moments of stillness translated, I deliberation that was 1 of the biggest takeaways that I volition person arsenic a performer.”

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