The Voice Season 6 winner Josh Kaufman is opening up about his plans for pop music stardom. The chart-topping hopeful is prepping for his upcoming tour along with his first studio album, which he hopes to start recording later this year.

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"Obviously, there's The Voice tour this summer, so that's coming up pretty quickly and it's going to be a lot of fun," Kaufman reveals in a new interview. "Then it's a matter of figuring out what a record is going to look like and the root of everything I do is kind of a soulfulness."

Kaufman, who supports his wife and three children by playing local gigs and working as an SAT prep tutor, is hoping that his newfound fame will allow him to stop tutoring and be a full-time musician. He says he would like his album to have different influential genres mixed together.

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"That's going to be at the heart of whatever it is, so I think you can take that and add a pop element," Kaufman adds. "You can add a rock element to that. You can go a lot of different directions, but it is definitely going to be centered on soul."

Kaufman also helped Usher clinch his first win as a judge on the reality competition show, ending Adam Levine and Blake Shelton's winning streak on this hit NBC series.

Season 7 of The Voice is set to debut this fall with returning judges Levine and Shelton along with newcomers Pharrell Williams and Gwen Stefani, who is sitting in for Christina Aguilera.

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