Gwen Stefani never kept track of the country music charts before meeting her now-husband, Blake Shelton, on “The Voice.”
During an interview with the Guardian, the No Doubt frontwoman, 55, revealed Shelton, 48, wasn’t even on her radar until they began working together in 2014.
“I never listened to country music, so while Blake was super successful, I never even knew he existed before I met him,” she told the outlet.
Now that she pays closer attention to the genre, the “Don’t Speak” singer said she “would love” to put out an album of country duets with her husband.
“I love singing with him,” she gushed. “He’s very humble and doesn’t realize how good he is. There’s something so attractive about that.”
Stefani released her fourth studio album, “Bouquets,” on Friday. While some of the songs detail her divorce from Gavin Rossdale, others are about her fairytale ending with Shelton — such as her song “Purple Irises,” which her husband collaborated on.
“When he heard Purple Irises, he loved it so much he ended up singing on it,” she said.
Stefani explained that her romance with the “Boys ‘Round Here” singer “felt like a second chance” after her split from the Bush rocker. She and Rossdale, who share three sons, were together for 20 years before their 2015 split.
“When my family fell apart, it was a catastrophe. How do you pick yourself up from that?” she said of their divorce.
“But God put this other person there to love me,” she added.
The “Sweet Escape” singer went on to explain how the foundation of her relationship with Shelton inspired their duet on her new album.
“I know this sounds weird, but Blake and I came together in gardening,” she explained. “We have a house together in Oklahoma and during the pandemic, we came across this very old building on the land and there were some purple irises, which someone must have planted centuries ago, but they’ve survived.”
She continued, “I wrote the song ‘Purple Irises’ about that and how it feels to find true love and the insecurities of not wanting to lose it.”
Although she and Shelton met in 2014, they didn’t start dating until the following year.
Like Stefani, the “Ol’ Red” singer was also newly divorced. He filed for divorce from his second wife, Miranda Lambert, just weeks before the “Rich Girl” singer announced her split from Rossdale.
They got married during an intimate ceremony at Shelton’s Oklahoma ranch in 2021.
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