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Zuma Rossdale’s budding country music career<\/a> is getting nothing but support from all three of the parental figures in his life.<\/p>\n In a new interview with\u00a0US Weekly<\/a><\/em>, Gavin Rossdale \u2014\u00a0Gwen Stefani<\/a>‘s ex-husband, and Zuma’s father \u2014 raved about his middle son’s talents.<\/p>\n “Zuma’s begun recording. He’s out of control,” Rossdale says. “I’m not even the best singer in my house anymore.”<\/p>\n “It’s super annoying,” he jokes.<\/p>\n Of course, Rossdale is best known as the lead singer of the rock band Bush, and Stefani is legendary as a founding member of No Doubt and a solo pop superstar.<\/p>\n But Zuma seems to take much of his musical inspiration from his country star stepdad, Blake Shelton<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 16-year-old boy has given a handful of performances at the Tishimingo, Okla. location of Shelton’s Ole Red bar, where he wowed the crowd with covers of ’90s hits like John Michael Montgomery’s “Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident.)”<\/p>\n Read More<\/em>: Gwen Stefani’s Son Zuma Goes Full Country With His Latest Performance at Blake’s Bar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Rossdale didn’t specifically say what he thinks about his son pursuing country music. But he did say that he’s always careful not to impose his own musical inclinations on his children.<\/p>\n “I’m really careful to not push,” he says\u00a0when asked if he shares his own tastes and music with his kids.<\/p>\n “I take pride in listening to what they’re doing and not sharing anything I’m doing,” Rossdale continues. “Yeah, ’cause it’s much more healthy.”<\/p>\n “… I’m their father, not their friend,” he points out. “What happens with me, though, in my house, they’ll play their songs, what they’re doing.”<\/p>\n He also said that Zuma is “super talented,” and remembered one incident when the young boy came into his father’s home studio, and had some harsh criticism for the remix Rossdale was working on.<\/p>\n “He’s listening to it, and he’s giving me the poo face, and he goes, ‘Uh, you’re not putting that out, are you?'” Rossdale\u00a0says with a laugh, explaining that his teenage son is already developing his own sharp sense of what works in music \u2014 and what doesn’t.<\/p>\n Shelton has also said that he’s not intentionally steering Zuma toward country music.<\/p>\n But the budding musician spends time with his guitar on a regular basis, Shelton revealed <\/a>in a recent interview with Taste of Country Nights.<\/em><\/p>\n He also said that he hasn’t done anything to purposefully push Zuma toward the genre.<\/p>\n Read More<\/em>: Blake Shelton Says Zuma’s Country Leanings Come Naturally<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n “It’s not me showing him stuff, it’s him showing me stuff,” Shelton recounts. “‘Have you heard this artist?’ ‘Listen to this song.'”<\/p>\n “It’s almost every single day,” he continues. “I love it. I can’t wait ’til I get home.”<\/p>\n Zuma is one of three sons that Stefani and Rossdale share.<\/p>\n The couple announced that they were splitting up in mid-2015, and around that same time, Shelton and Miranda Lambert<\/a> were also going through a divorce of their own.<\/p>\n By the end of that year, Shelton and Stefani had started dating, after they first met as coaches on\u00a0The Voice<\/a><\/em>. They got married<\/a> in July 2021.<\/p>\n Since marrying Stefani in 2021, Shelton has embraced his new role as a father figure to her kids.<\/p>\n He retired as a coach on The Voice<\/em> in order to prioritize family time, and has been open about how Stefani’s kids changed his perspective on life.<\/p>\n “Having kids, it truly does make you go, ‘Oh, whoa, wait a minute. This isn’t about me anymore and never will be again,'” he explained in 2022<\/a>. “If you don’t say that yourself, I think you’re only hurting yourself, because you’re going to miss out.”<\/p>\n From an unlikely, cross-genre pairing to one of country music’s hottest “it” couples, Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani have been on quite the journey together since they first met back in 2014 on the set of The Voice<\/em>. Here is a look back at their fairy tale love story in pictures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nZuma\u00a0Is Perfecting His Musical Craft\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
A Blended, Musical Family<\/strong><\/h3>\n
What Has Blake Shelton Said About Being a Stepdad?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Blake Shelton + Gwen Stefani: A Timeline of Their Love<\/h2>\n