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The Voice singers reach out

Stars from The Voice wowed fans at The Palms at Crown in a 2 hour crowd-pleasing concert.

Stars from The Voice wowed fans at The Palms at Crown last night, in a special to air on Sunday night, Voices Reaching Out.

Hosted by Darren McMullen it included Karise Eden, Darren Percival, Sarah DeBono, Rachael Leahcar, Prinnie Stevens, Mahalia Barnes, Adam Martin, Ben Hazlewood, Chris Sebastian, Fatai V, Mitchell Johnson, Brittany Cairns, Kelsie Rimmer, Diana Rouvas, Viktoria Bolonina, Emma Louise Birdsall and Casey Withoos.

The singers didn’t put a foot wrong in the 2 hour crowd-pleasing concert, with Karise Eden showing Melbourne why her extraordinary vocals won the title. Eden sang two songs including “You Won’t Let Me.” The very-assured Darren Percival charmed the room with another James Taylor number.

Sarah De Bono and Ben Hazelwood were oozing in confidence and are two who should go far.

The recreated “Turning Tables” by Brittany Cairns and Kelsie Rimmer was again sublime.

But for my money the best performance was from four of the girls singing a Kelly Clarkson number.

Interestingly the show was not produced by Shine Australia, but produced internally by Adrian Dellevergin (Carols by Candlelight, Logie Awards).

It airs 6:30pm Sunday on Nine.

7 Responses

  1. just watched it and they used sooo much live autotune! i thought these people were good singers? go and watch the ‘with or without you’ performance and tell me theyre not using pitch correction. what a joke!!

  2. I’ve hardly seen any ads for this I agree @James Nine should certainly have been smarter in preserving the voice and not caused fatigue with airing the US version – I haven’t heard anyone say it was a good idea.

    Wonder how Karise went seeing as she is under the weather…

  3. I would have said that this would have been a big hit for Nine… but now that they’ve overkilled the show with the US version, I’m expecting this concert to ‘struggle’ as compared to the AU series.
    Maybe 1-1.4m if they’re lucky.

  4. I think the ratings could go either way personally. I watched The Voice, but this just reeks of desperation – I believe Nine are doing this for ratings before they are doing it for the “good cause”. I won’t be watching.

    It’s in one of Nine’s better performing timeslots though, so it has that going for it.

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