Faith guides San Antonio's Britton Moore from the field to the The Voice stage

SAN ANTONIO - Just a couple of weeks ago, San Antonio's Britton Moore shocked the world with his incredible singing on NBC’S "The Voice.”

"My legs were shaking, I'm not going to lie to you,” Moore said in an interview with SBG San Antonio’s Matt Roy.

Moore sang a shorter version of "Yellow" by Coldplay for his blind audition as he tried to get four of the biggest stars in the world to turn their chairs.

"The first thought that came through my head was, please let someone turn around,” Alicia Moore, Britton’s mom, said.

Luckily for the Moore, family it only took 10 words to get Maroon 5 front-man Adam Levine hooked.

"And then once Adam turned, Michael Buble said 'it's a unique voice, it's a character voice,” Jonathan Moore, Britton’s dad, said. “Then he said, ‘I want to know what happens next.’ Well, I know what comes next, you’re going to like it.”

John legend, then Kelsea Ballerini, and finally Michael Buble – a four chair turn for a 21 year old phenom.

And while the world now knows him from his performance on that stage, his friends and family in San Antonio know him for his weekly performances on this one -- singing at the church his parents founded, Northrock.

"The amount of time that I have spent at church is unreal and I love it, I really do because that it where I really found my voice,” Britton said.

Faith and music are engrained in the very fiber of the Moore family; Jonathan is the lead pastor at Northrock and has three worship albums, Alicia was a choir director and piano teacher, Britton's brother mason is the worship director -- so singing was in the cards for Britton at a young age.

“Britt literally grew up singing and we could tell from a little boy, because we're singers, he's really got a good voice, like this is a legitimate voice,” Jonathan said. “It's not just a mom saying, ‘oh, you can sing.’ No, it was legitimate."

"Three,” Alicia said of when Britton started singing. “Like when you can start singing he would just sing and sing and sing."

"To the point where we're just like 'would you please just quiet down?' Still every now and then we want to say that,” Jonathan said laughing.

But Britton always had a different passion too: sports.

"When he was seven or eight years old, you'd ask him, ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ And he said I want to be a professional football player, and if not, a professional MLB player, and if not, I want to be a famous singer,” Alicia said.

And if you've been watching our station over the past few years you know exactly the kind of athlete Britton was: he was in the little league world series in 2016, he was the starting quarterback for the Reagan Rattlers in 2021, and a four year starter for the Rattler baseball team too.

"He's a really good person,” Reagan head baseball coach Chans Chapman said. “You don't always get that. I mean, he was there for his teammates. He's always looking to help other people out. He's always got a smile on his face and always upbeat. Without him, we probably may not be as successful as we were."

He’s no stranger to your TV screen.

"I would do interviews at practice,” Britton said. “I was the interview guy for us. Coach Chapman would be like, ‘man, we got news here you got to go.’”

In that era, sports were the priority -- so much so that Britton declined the opportunity to go on The Voice in 2022 because the rattlers made the 6A state championship game.

"Alicia was in the stands texting The Voice,” Jonathan said. “He had a plane ticket on Sunday morning, like at 7 A.M. to go to LA but he was the starting pitcher against Lake Travis. We won that game, and the rest is history. So he couldn't go. "

The Moore's didn't know if that opportunity would ever come again.

"He went to college baseball, played the one year at McClennan in Waco, and it was a fabulous experience. He did amazing,” Alicia said. “Then he came home during the summer, and he felt God was telling him to stay home."

And just like that – music and his faith came to the forefront.

"It was hard when he told us he was done, and when he was done, we all cried,” Alicia said.

"When I stopped playing sports, I moved back home and I kind of went through a rough patch,” Britton said. “I was I was lost."

As the bible verse goes. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

For Britton -- his faith gave him the strength to make the decision that changed his life.

"I genuinely believe that after you know this episode has aired, or the show has aired, that this is what I'm supposed to be doing, and God's got me right where he wants me to be,” Britton said.

"Regardless of what happens and what the outcome is, it's going to push him to the purpose that I believe God has for his life,” Jonathan said.