Sundance Head, 'The Voice' Season 11 winner, wounded in accidental shooting by own gun

Country singer Sundance Head was shot in the stomach Friday – accidentally by his own gun.

The Season 11 winner of NBC's "The Voice," 46, is expected to make a full recovery, according to his agent Trey Newman.

"He was putting a gun away at his ranch in Texas when it slipped out of the holster, hit the side of the jeep and discharged into his stomach area missing his vital organs.  He is expected to make a full recovery," his agent told USA TODAY in an emailed statement Saturday.

According to a Facebook post Saturday morning, Sundance Head's wife Misty said the singer was released from the hospital in Tyler, Texas late Friday night, adding that she "can't express how grateful we are for all the messages, calls, and prayers."

She continued: "Y'all know he has a way with words and know he won't just have a song to write but an entire album of this accident."

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In an earlier Facebook post published Friday, Misty gave fans an update on her husband's condition.

"We have arrived at hospital and just now physically put my eyes on him and heard his sweet voice. He’s in good spirits considering the last several hours. Kids are in with him now. Prayers answered as no internal damage was done by the bullet," Sundance Head's wife wrote in a Facebook post.

"Thanks for all the prayers," she added. According to the post, Sundance Head was recovering in the hospital at the time.

"It was not his hunting rifle and no nobody shot him. He was out of the vehicle reaching in to grab his 22 when he grabbed it the 22 came out of its holster and hit the exterior of the Jeep just right and went off. Sundance said it happened so fast and he could see the bullet dislodging," his wife Misty wrote.

During his blind audition, the reality TV alum performed the Otis Redding ballad "I've Been Loving You Too Long."Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levineand country music megastar Blake Shelton pressed their red buttons and turned their chairs for Head. He joined genre mentor Shelton's team and ultimately won the singing competition.

A decade before his "Voice" win in 2016, Sundance Head appeared on Season 7 of Fox's "American Idol" in 2007, which Jordin Sparks won. He made it to the Top 16 of Season 7 before he was eliminated.