The Voice: How Sam Cooke's great-granddaughter and West Palm Beach resident JaRae Womack did

West Palm Beach resident JaRae Womack was sent home on The Voice on Tuesday night in what is known as the Battle Rounds.

The Battle stage of the competition pairs two performers on one coach's team for a duet and then the coach chooses the person who delivered the best performance.

Womack sang "Killing Me Softly With His Song" with her partner, Lila Forde, 24, of Seattle. Their coach, John Legend, chose Forde.

Womack, a 35-year-old massage therapist, didn't tell any of the judges in the first part of the competition that she's related to music royalty. Her great-grandfather was Sam Cooke, the "King of Soul."

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Sam Cooke lit up the world of soul but died very young

Singer-songwriter Cooke was one of the most celebrated Black vocalists after World War II. He wrote hits like "You Send Me," "Twistin' the Night Away" and "What a Wonderful World," but "A Change is Gonna Come" is his signature song. The anthem for the civil rights movement was inspired by his being turned away from a whites-only hotel and then arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Cooke was shot to death by a hotel manager in Los Angeles in 1964. He was only 33. The shooting was ruled self-defense, but Cooke's friends, Muhammed Ali and Etta James, said when they saw his body in his casket, he had been badly beaten.

Cooke was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and was awarded a Grammy for lifetime achievement in 1999.

Disciples included James Taylor, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson and Bobby Womack.

Bobby Womack was JaRae's uncle. He married Cooke's widow months after Cooke's demise, which was controversial at the time. Her grandparents are Cecil and Linda Womack, Sam Cooke's daughter, of Womack and Womack.

"You have to live up to a certain expectation. Everybody thinks that just because I'm a Womack, (people think), 'I'm guessing you can sing,' '' she said in a YouTube video. "I have to go out and prove to every person on the stage and in the audience, who I am."

Holly Baltz is a content editor at The Palm Beach Post. You can reach her at [email protected].

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