A D.C. native just made it to the Top 12 in the TV singing competition The Voice, while half of his competition was sent packing last night.

“I CANNOT WAIT to be perform for you all next week,” said singer Owen Danoff on Instagram after he cleared the vocal playoffs. “That said, this is the most bittersweet thing because the Voice journey has ended for so many of my friends.”

When Danoff auditioned for The Voice, he got the much-vaunted “four-chair turn” during the blind auditions, meaning that all four judges wanted him on their team. And he’s still getting that adjudicator love. Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, whose team Danoff chose, “saved” the singer from elimination last night when he didn’t get the votes to automatically make it to the next round.

While America may just be meeting the crooner, who Entertainment Weekly described as “the musician equivalent of a ‘KEEP CALM’ poster with a hippie twist,” he’s won three Washington Area Music Awards (aka Wammies) and was selected as an artist in resident at Strathmore in 2012 and 2013.

The winner of The Voice gets $100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group.