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" Blake Shelton is organising an NBC telethon to raise money for victims of the Oklahoma tornado. More than 20 people were killed - including nine children - when the deadly storm struck the area surrounding Oklahoma City earlier in the week.  Shelton and his wife Miranda Lambert opened Tuesday&amp;#039;s edition of The Voice with a tribute to victims of the storm, and he revealed after the taping that he was hoping a telethon would be ready to air on NBC soon. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ll know more about it in the next 24 hours,&amp;quot; he told Billboard on Tuesday. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m hoping it will raise a lot of money. Obviously it will be televised and will happen really quickly.&amp;quot; Shelton teased that his fellow Voice coach Usher could appear on the telethon, and promised more concrete announcements soon.  NBC raised $23 million in a similar telethon late last year to aid those affected by Superstorm Sandy across the eastern coast of the US. That televised benefit featured performances by Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Christina Aguilera, Steven Tyler, Billy Joel and Mary J Blige from NBC&amp;#039;s studios in New York City. Watch Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert pay tribute to the Oklahoma tornado victims below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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