Blind Auditions 2 The Voice UK

DANNY: To hear a voice that really connects

can stop you dead in your tracks.

-TOM:

-You can't explain it until you hear it.

JESSIE J: But it's just a feeling that you get. You just know.

-WILL.I.AM:

-Somewhere out there is the winner of The Voice.

-TOM:

-All we have to do now is find them.

'Last week the search began.'

'All the acts came with just one wish -

'to win a place on one of the superstar coaches' teams.'

'Jesse J has three acts so far.'

Team Jessie, baby!

'While Will.i.am grabbed two.'

Yo! What I'm talkin' about!

'And both Danny O'Donoghue and Sir Tom Jones have just one act each.'

Yeah!

'Our coaches continue their search.

'If a coach likes what they hear, they hit a button.'

'And that artist wins a place on their team.'

'But if more than one coach turns, the act gets the power to choose

'who they would most like to work with..'

-WILL.I.AM:

-You have a choice to make. Choose wrong...and you die!

'Each coach wants to discover the one artist who'll win it all.

'The blind auditions continue now...'

-It's on now!

-'..on The Voice.'

'First up tonight,

'and hoping to muscle his way into the coaches' affections,

'is 30-year-old fitness trainer Trevor from Romford.'

Before I was a personal training,

I was a backing vocalist for P.Diddy

Mariah Carey, Tinie Tempah...

some of the biggest superstars. It was crazy!

I've worked with Florence and The Machine. Did a tour with her.

We sang at all the festivals.

Thousands of people there. Such a great atmosphere.

Such a great feeling, juts of being on that stage.

When you're backing singing you do feel that, you know,

you want to be at the front.

I always had that feeling, you know, "I can do this!"

So this is why I'm doing The Voice.

When I'm on stage I just feel at home.

I don't ever want to come off.

This is my time.

I'm taking that step forward.

This could change my life.

Can I do it?

I think I can.

-Go, Trevor!

-Yay!

# I was born by the river

# In a little tent

# Oh...

# And just like the river

# I've been running ever since

# It's been a long...

# Long time coming

# But I know

# Change gonna come... #

It's three. Is he going to get a full house?

# ..Mmm-mm

# Then I go to my brother

# Mm-mmm

# And I said to my brother, "Won't you help me please?"

# But he winds up

# Knockin' me, yeah

# Back down on my knees

# It's been a long...

# Long time coming, but I know

# Change gonna come

# I know it will

# Oh, yes, it will

# Yes, it will. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

What's your name?

-Trevor Francis.

-Where you from?

-East London. Romford.

-Wayyyyy!

LAUGHTER

How old are you?

I'm 30.

APPLAUSE

Been singing a long time, obviously. You sing professionally?

A lot a backing vocals and stuff like that.

Well, it's your time to stand in the light, cos that was...

I was dropped dead, like....

-Soon as I turned around.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

Those tricks I know you know, will work incredibly well

-with tricks that I know, to beat all these guys.

-OK. I hear you.

APPLAUSE

I thought it was great. I think you're great.

-I think you're very natural.

-Yeah.

-You've a natural-sounding voice.

You still had your own individuality in a well-known song like that,

which to me, is a hard thing to do.

APPLAUSE

I loved it. And would like to... I'd love to have you on my team.

but of course that's up to you.

APPLAUSE

Can I just say I got goosebumps. I pressed my button in seconds.

Really? Wow.

Literally, it was the first... The control.

And what I loved, as I turned around...

you were just in performance mode.

And I just went like that - "thank you".

Cos that was a real blessing to listen to.

And I would be honoured to work with your voice.

-I just feel like, vocally, I'm the coach for you.

-OK, thank you.

I'm getting a little bit competitive, now.

LAUGHTER

You have a great voice, right?

And what you do with that voice is up to who you have around you.

I can't sit here and just give you out default things

on how I think I'm going to be right for you,

but I know that I would go to the end of the earth

to figure out how I'm right for you.

And that's the difference between me and all the default answers.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

How serious are you? I'm serious.

-100% I'm serious.

-I'm serious.

-We're all serious.

-Serious as!

I'm serious too. I'll go all the way. I feel the show's finished.

I ain't tryin' to sell it, I'm just tryin' to tell it!

And if you can't hear me, I yell it!

I think the journey is way more important than where you end up,

-trust me.

-The journey's for ever.

-Yeah.

The journey doesn't stop after The Voice is over.

No, it doesn't. It begins, really.

-So, you have a decision to make.

-All right.

There's four of us. We all turned around.

Oh, man...!

-God, this is so hard.

-Um...

AUDIENCE SHOUT NAMES

Can I say how serious I am? Serious.

Your voice excites me. I want to get in that, vocally.

AUDIENCE SHOUTS NAMES

-OK, come on, Jessie. Me and you.

-YEAAAH!

Thank you!

Yes!

Well done, Trevor! Well done, well done!

That was fantastic!

Oh, my heart is pumping!

Jessie's gonna feel she can teach him how to...sing.

But he already knows how to sing.

He's a soul singer. A natural soul singer.

Oh, yeah.

And that's going to be, uh, not productive.

He picked the wrong person.

No!

Trevor's on Team... # Jessie!

'So, Trevor makes four on Team Jessie.

'Next stop Doncaster.'

My name's Emma Jade Garbutt, I'm 18 and I'm a beauty consultant.

MUSIC: "Working 9 to 5" by Dolly Parton

When she's not working, she sings. That's all Emma does.

Most people my age tend to listen to pop, R&B...

which I do like to listen to, it's just for me

country is the one thing that I love to sing.

In Doncaster country music is not cool.

Emma's had to really, really try

and push herself forward onto the music scene.

Last year I went to Nashville in Tennessee

to play at something called the Teen Hoot.

All right, I want to see your hands up in the air!

I got to sing for like 3,000 people and it was crazy.

When I was over in Nashville a producer said to me,

you could be the first English country superstar

and that has become the biggest goal for me.

Thank you guys, so much!

I really have to get out of Doncaster and back to Nashville.

And The Voice is my best chance to do that.

Hopefully, I'll have a chair turn round.

-My legs are shaking.

-I know.

# He's got a smile that it seems to me

# Reminds me of...memories

# Where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky

# Now and then when I see his face... #

Come on, come on!

# ..He takes me away to that special place

# And if I stared too long probably break down and cry

# Oh, Lord

# Oh...

# Sweet child o' mine... #

-Go on, Danny!

-Come on, go!

# ..Sweet love of mine, yeah

# He's got eyes of the bluest skies

# As if they thought of rain

# I hate to... #

Oh, please, please...!

# ..And see an ounce of pain

# Oh...

# Sweet child o' mine

# Oh, oh

# Sweet love of mine

# Whoa-oh... #

-Come on!

-Please...!

# ..Child o' mine. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Oh, my god!

Come on!

Wooo-haw! That's what I'm talkin' about!

Hi!

Hi. Oh, don't cry.

-Hi!

-Don't cry, cos then I'll cry. Then Will will start crying...

Tom will start. Then we'll need make-up re-done.

-Your name is?

-Emma Jade.

-And how old are you?

-Eighteen.

-Yeah.

-What?!

-Yeah.

-You're 18?

-Yeah.

Wow.

-Thanks.

-That's dope.

-I'm glad that Tom turned around, so congratulations.

-Thank you so much.

For me personally, I didn't turn around because...

I'm going to be really honest. ..I didn't believe you.

-I did.

-He believed you.

-When you're singing a song like that.

-Yeah.

-REALLY believe it.

Have someone you're singing it about, to, in your mind.

APPLAUSE Believe yourself.

I'm kind of the same.

I thought you were a lot stronger at the end, than you were starting.

-Again, that's nerves. Finding your comfort zone.

-Yeah.

All of that. But again there's no better person

than Tom to coach you with all that type of stuff.

So thank you.

APPLAUSE

I didn't turn around, not because I didn't like it -

I actually really loved it -

but I was looking over. Somebody better press that button!

-I can't believe it.

-Really, really.

I'm so glad Tom did. Because Tom... is the bomb!

APPLAUSE

-The reason I turned around is cos I love the way you sing.

-Thank you.

I love the way YOU sing!

Aw, thanks.

I thought, "I can't let this girl walk away."

You have something, and I think that this country is lacking

in country singers at the moment,

so I think we'll work great together.

You're stuck with me sweetheart.

You're exactly who I wanted!

OK!

MUSIC: "Country Girl" by Primal Scream

# Country girl, take my hand

# Lead me through this diseased land. #

-OK, we are turning. We are ready, we are ready.

-Quick, quick, quick.

All the team on our feet, on our feet.

She has got something. Or as Will would say, "Fresh."

-No, no, no, no, no.

-Yeah.

All that stands between each act

and a place on a coach's team is four buttons and a push.

Luckily for a 17-year-old Sam Hollyman,

a push is never far away.

'I came back from school about three months ago to find out

'that my mother had signed me up for The Voice.'

She is very, if not slightly overenthusiastic

about my career in music.

'On my 15th birthday, my mum took me to a Michael Buble concert.'

During an interval she decided to go up to him

and call him down from the stage.

If I could have a dream, it would be to have every single person

up here, except for you, crazy woman.

Thereafter, a short and slightly embarrassing conversation.

Her son turned 15 couple of days ago.

That's very sweet. He is hiding. He is hiding.

My mum manages to get me onstage with Michael Buble.

And you want to sing. Come up here for a moment.

Come up here for a moment because I remember being your age.

Bring him up over the bar here.

CHEERING

# Sun in the sky. #

Hey! Hey, come here!

CHEERING

Sam can sing!

Yeah!

'Incredible. After the event, it sort of went viral,

'as it were, on YouTube.

'It got to about 2 million views or something like that.'

Someone has got a message for you.

Hey, it's Michael Buble, Sam, and it wasn't long ago in Birmingham

I remember you coming on stage with me, saying "Mom, Sam can sing."

Good luck, kid.

-Mr Buble himself. Good luck, kid.

-Oh, wow.

Yeah!

'My mother was responsible for the first big thing on stage I ever had.

'She may be responsible for the next.'

Oh, my baby.

# It's a little bit funny

# This feeling inside

# I'm not one of those

# Who can easily hide

# I don't have much money

# But, boy, if I did

# I'd buy a big house where

# We both could live

# Excuse me forgetting

# But these things I do

# You see I've forgotten

# Whether they're green or they're blue

# Anyway, the thing is

# What I really mean

# Yours are the sweetest eyes

# I've ever seen

# And you can tell anybody

# This is your song

# It may be quite simple

# But now that it's done

# I hope you don't mind I hope you don't mind

# That I put down in words

# How wonderful life is

# Now you're in the

# World. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Hi.

- Hi. - What's your name?

Sam Hollyman.

- How old are you, Sam? - I'm 17.

17.

-You have an exceptional talent for a 17-year-old.

-Thank you.

Really, really, you do.

The reason why I didn't turn around is I slightly heard

music theatre in there.

Just a little bit too proper for what I could add to it,

a little bit more grit and rock and roll.

There is pronouncing words and then overpronouncing a little bit.

HE OVERPRONOUNCES # I hope you don't mind

# I hope you don't... #

HE SINGS NORMALLY # I hope you don't mind

# I hope you don't... #

Just putting a little bit of rasp, a little bit of...

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

That song is one of my family's favourite songs.

My uncle used to play that for my mom and...

But that song, it's a particular emotion.

You know, if there was a word that that song represents,

it would be appreciation.

-So when you got up there and you're, like, screaming, kind of...

-Yeah.

..it kind of clashed. You have a great voice.

It's just the emotion and the tonality didn't marry each other.

JESSIE: Hi.

APPLAUSE

I'm actually happy we didn't turn around

because I don't think you are ready yet.

I think you need to really get to know your voice

so my advice to you would be go away and really work on

your voice and sing as much as you can and perform as much as you can.

-I think that will really help.

-Sam, you have a lovely sounding voice.

Thank you.

So good luck and God bless.

Thank you. Thanks very much.

APPLAUSE

Hello, Sam.

You sang really well.

-Did he do you proud?

-Yeah. He always does me proud.

-Nice.

23-year-old Alex Buchanan is used to playing at being a pop star.

Now he wants to be one in his own right.

I've been there in the Michael Jackson show, Thriller Live,

but I am ready to be an artist and I need to be out there.

'We have always been very close, my family and I.

'They keep me level-headed and humble'

and they make me want to do well.

Whatever happens, we are here for you. That's it.

-We are all very proud of you.

-Cheers, Dad.

My relationship with my father is amazing and my dad is definitely

my best friend and he was the person that I learned everything from.

It's good just getting to this stage, you know?

So you have done a good job and I'm sure you will fare really well.

I think one of the greatest lessons he ever taught me

is just to never give up, live with no regrets and chase your dream.

'My dream is to look after the family.'

You know, it is going to help me create a better life for them.

'I want to be on the stage, you know,

'with thousands of people stood in front of me,

'just singing my songs back to me and enjoying what it is that I do.

'I do believe that I have the potential

'to be a successful recording artist.

'I just need someone to believe in me.'

# Too much light in my window

# Don't wake me up

# If I wake and you're here still

# Give me a kiss

# Don't wake me up Up, up, up, up, up

# Don't wake me up

# Don't wake me

# Don't wake me up, yeah

# Don't wake me up

# Don't wake me up

# Too much life in the city

# You won't believe

# Been awake for some days now

# And no time to sleep

# If your heart is a pillow

# This love's the bed, yeah

# So tell me where is the music

# Inside my head?

# Don't wake me up

# Don't wake me up, up, up, up, up

# Don't wake me up. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Wow!

Yeah!

-What's your name?

-My name is Alex Buchanan. Hi.

-Where do you work?

What's your passport number?

LAUGHTER

I'm a full-time musician, artist.

But I'm also the lead singer in Thriller Live the musical,

the West End musical.

-Wow. How old are you?

-23.

Sorry, I'm asking, like, 100 questions. 23?

-I was the last to turn around cos I wasn't sure.

-I was the first.

I know. We know.

LAUGHTER

But me and Will did a nice spectacular turn standing up.

-That was quite exciting.

-Yeah, that was dope.

-It was. Pew!

But what I will say is I felt you pushed yourself.

Like, you grew with the performance but, like,

that last riff, I was like...

-And it was delicious.

-Thank you.

And congratulations on getting through to the next round.

Thank you so much.

Well, I waited before I hit my button

because I was waiting for you to do something wrong, but you didn't.

APPLAUSE

If you were with me, I would just want more of the same from you.

And that's the only advice I can really give you.

You hit it the way you are hitting it because it is great.

APPLAUSE

I think, you know, generally, vocally, you are very gifted.

Very, very gifted, you know, from another male vocalist.

You know, I think you are very fresh, very new.

I absolutely need you on my team.

APPLAUSE

And again, as a male thing and being quite close to your age as well,

I do feel getting thrust into...

Did you just say close in age?

Yeah, of course.

That is desperado!

LAUGHTER

Well, we pushed the buttons but, at the end of the day,

you have the power.

AUDIENCE SHOUT

Wow.

OK, OK.

I am...

I...

I am stunned, like. I would love to work with all of you.

I think, this time...

-I think, this time...

-I'm getting hot.

I think I am making a good decision.

This is so hard.

This time,

I'm going to pick my girl, Jessie.

CHEERING

It's going to be fun.

I think he has got great potential

and I think, with the right song, I think he could be amazing.

And Will was like, "Turn around, turn around."

I bet he's going to regret that now.

I'm glad he went with Jessie cos I pressed my button

and then realised, "No, maybe I don't want him on my team.

"Let me get Jessie to get him."

Sneaky Willy.

-REGGIE:

-Will is not the only one with secret weapons.

52-year-old Lorraine Crosby has some legendary firepower up her sleeve.

I have to say the highlight of my musical career is

singing on a number one song with Meatloaf.

I sang a duet with him on

I Would Do Anything For Love (But I won't Do That).

# And I would do anything for love... #

So what is the story behind all that?

I was in the studio when they were recording the song and the girl

who was supposed to sing it didn't turn up and Meatloaf said,

"Would you mind, we'll put this on record?" And I went,

-"Why not?"

-Yeah.

They used a model in the video so nobody knew it was me.

# I know the territory. #

And to this day, people don't realise she didn't actually sing it,

she just lip-synched to my voice.

So, what actually happened to that model in the video then?

-She was offered three record deals.

-Off of your voice?

-Off of my voice.

That's ridiculous.

I didn't make any money singing that song.

I didn't have two pennies to rub together

'and that song was number one all over the world.'

I didn't have a bean. But I've never been bitter about it.

'It would be lovely just to walk on stage and be the singer.

'And that's it.

'Walking out there, it's probably like playing Wembley Arena.'

'It could change your life that much.

'As soon as I see the crowd, I think I'll be OK.

'I'll try not to look at the chairs, just at the audience.

'Look at the audience, not the chairs and I'll be all right.

'Let's see what happens.'

# Mmm, LA proved too much for the man

# He couldn't take it

# So he's leaving life

# He's come to know, ooh

# So he pawned all his hopes

# He even sold his old car

# He bought a one-way ticket back

# To the life he once knew

# Oh, yes, he did

# He said he would

# Oh-oh, he's leaving

# On that midnight train to Georgia

# Yeah.

# He said he's going back to find

# Ooh, a simpler place and time

# Oh, yeah

# And I'm gonna be with him

# On that midnight train to Georgia

# Ooh, ooh

# I'd rather live in his world

# Than live without him in mine

# Ooh-ooh-oooh. #

APPLAUSE

Hi!

-How are you?

-Gutted.

-Aw.

You know, you got past 30,000 people to get up here, you know.

That's one mean feat right there. Um...

-What's your background? Where do you come from?

-I'm from Newcastle.

CHEERING

And you've all heard me sing before, by the way.

I sang a song that was number one in 1993.

I sang a song called I Would Do Anything For Love with Meatloaf.

GASPING

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Basically, I came on because I wasn't in the video

and everybody I tell I sang the song,

they've got no idea it was me, so that's why I came.

APPLAUSE

You've got a great voice, like, gorgeous, gorgeous tone.

Like, even when you growled, I liked it. Does that make sense?

Like, there was moments I was, like, "I really like this." Going,

"Yeah, yeah." And then I wanted you to do a riff or something on the end

of a sentence to make it really yours. It kind of just disappeared?

-And that's the reason I didn't turn around.

-I appreciate that.

I thought your voice was magnificent.

I was hoping Jessie or Tom turned around for you

because they would be great coaches. And I was pleasantly surprised.

Um... I thought, the way you sang, you sound like, er, one of my family members?

-Ah.

-And then I turned around, I was like, "Ah..."

-Thank you, Will.

-Yeah, really so.

-Thank you.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

'I came here today hoping for one of the coaches to turn round'

and change my life in some way, but they didn't,

but at least I got to tell my story, and I'm happy with that.

She sang with Meatloaf. That's her...

# I would do anything for love But I won't do that... #

That was her on that song.

People have come from all corners of the UK to try and

impress our coaches, and our next act has decided to bring a little

-bit of home along with him.

-Anybody want a biscuit?

All the way from...

My name's Gary Ryland, also known as Ragsy,

from Aberdare, South Wales, in the Valleys.

It's a fantastic place, full of colourful characters

and wonderful people.

-That's my mum, that is. That's my dad.

-Hello.

-Do I get a kiss as well?

Course you do.

-Always.

-Never wash that again.

-HOLLY LAUGHS

Where does the name Ragsy come from?

Um, when my brothers were...

were young, like, you know, my parents, obviously,

were a little bit skint, like, so my mother, she used to...

She used to patch their jeans up and they used to go to school

and all that, like, and everybody was calling them Ragsy then.

And that's where it comes from?

Yeah, and then it was Ragsy 1, Ragsy 2, and then Ragsy 3.

THEY LAUGH

In my current day job, I'm a chef. Music's my first love.

Food is a very close second.

At work I'm known as the rock 'n' roll chef.

HE SINGS

Cooking away, I'm always singing.

I've been gigging all my life, and as gigs go,

this is the biggest yet.

This opportunity is, you know, it's an amazing chance

to really do something musically in my life.

-Gee, he's good looking, like his dad, isn't he?

-He is.

I was just thinking that.

# I was just guessing at numbers and figures

# Pulling the puzzles apart... #

Come on, my son.

# Questions of science

# Science and progress

# Do not speak as loud as my heart

# So tell me you love me

# Oh, come back and haunt me

# Oh, and we rush to the start

# I'm running in circles

# Chasing our tails

# Coming back as we are

# Nobody said it was easy

# Oh, it's such a shame for us to part

# Nobody said it was easy

# No one ever said it would be so hard

# Oh, take me back to the start

# Ooooohhhhhhh. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Whoo.

Yeah, man. Take me back to the start of that performance.

-That was brilliant.

-Thank you very much.

-What's your name?

-Ragsy.

-Ragsy?

-Yeah, as in scruffy jeans - Ragsy.

-Ragsy. JESSIE: Ragsy.

-Where are you from?

-Yeah, all the way from Aberdare.

Yabba-dabba-dare. Whatever you want to call it.

APPLAUSE AND LAUGHTER

-How come you didn't turn around? Is there anything...?

-Because...

I didn't turn around because I know that you'll be better off with

-either one of those two guys.

-Oh, right, right.

No, I just thought that it might have been something I did wrong,

-like, you know.

-Oh, no. You did nothing wrong.

-Uh-huh.

I am transparent, man. When I see something and I see one of my mates

over there hit the button, I'm like, "You know what?

"I would hate if they did that to me," so let me, like,

practise what I preach, and turn the other cheek.

Father, Father, will you help us? Send some guidance from above. Where is the love?

Everything that's synonymous with M-A-G

is what you were right there.

-Oh, thank you very much.

-Margarine?

So M-A-G is magnificent, imagination, magazine...

-You belong on the cover of a magazine.

-Oh, do I?

Magnet. Magnetic. Um...

Magician. Magical. Um...

-and magnum.

-Wow.

-Ah.

Thank you very much for that.

I love people who do take risks, just taking a song like that,

-such a signature song, and doing your own thing to it.

-Fantastic.

I was looking for a really, really great rock singer.

-I think I just found him. So...

-Ooh...

-JESSIE: Hello.

-Hi, you all right?

-Well done,

but I always try and give a little bit of advice.

Really, really try and go for those high notes, because you were kind of

-sitting just underneath them.

-Oh, OK. Thank you very much.

So really just sit on top of them instead of underneath them.

OK. Thank you very much. That's brilliant, that is. I'll, er...

-LAUGHTER

-I'll give that a crack.

Well, I don't think you were sitting underneath anything.

-I think you were right on top of it.

-RAGSY:

-Ah!

-TOM:

-And that was it.

I loved the way you sounded right from the start, and I hope,

you know, I can be your coach and we can have some fun together.

-Ha-ha!

-Yes!

-Thank you very much, Tom. It means a lot.

It means a lot, especially from someone like yourself.

It's up to you. Do you want to go with Dan the man

or the man with the tan?

LAUGHTER

Who's it going to be, Ragsy?

It is a tough one.

HE LAUGHS

Wait, wait, wait.

CHEERING

SCREAMING

HE LAUGHS

Um...ooh, right. Um...

Being Welsh, I'm sure you came in going...

Like I said, I know you turned around first,

and I really do appreciate the comments and everything like that,

you know? And you're a fantastic artist.

It feels like we're splitting up!

LAUGHTER

Are we splitting up?

# Everybody hurts... #

I'm sorry, it's not you, it's me.

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

We've just become different people and we want different things, like, you know?

DANNY LAUGHS

Um...

But I do really appreciate it, and I appreciate your compliments

and everything like that, but, you know,

I'd love to work with Tom, to be honest with you.

CHEERING

Yes.

Well done, Ragsy!

It's bonkers, innit?

-Outrageous.

-Thank you very much.

It's crazy, man.

Once he hit that high note, that was it, it clinched the deal for me.

-You've done it, son!

-Yeah. Definitely.

There are a lot of powerful singers in Wales, and he's one of them.

So Tom bags yet another Celt for his team.

Just what is it the Welsh find so irresistible about Mr Jones?

I think everyone in the world knows Tom Jones.

But especially round the Valleys.

Everybody feels some connection to Tom Jones.

Tom, you've been a hero most of my life.

-I grew up listening to Tom Jones.

-He's a legend.

-Sir Tom!

-Oh, thank you.

I'm very proud of him, everybody is.

I've loved you all my life!

He's like a dragon. A dragon got wings.

# Yeah... #

-Where do you come from, love?

-A place called Swansea.

-I'm from Newport.

-I'm from Abercynon.

-I know it well.

-I'm from the Valleys.

-Cardiff.

-South Wales.

-From South Wales!

Oh, here we go. I might as well just leave now.

# My, my, my Delilah... #

Tom Jones is like Velcro to Welsh people.

They just stick to him like glue, they do.

Every single contestant has a story.

My grandfather, he actually sang with Tom.

-It's like the six degrees of Tom Jones.

-You danced for my nan.

Is there anybody you don't know?

My neighbour was Tom Jones's wife's best friend and hairdresser.

Really? Seriously.

-I've been around quite a while.

-You're amazing, Tom Jones.

-Amazing!

-Yes!

-CHEERING

-Thank you.

Here come Harry Smith and Katie Jones.

-And together we are...

-BOTH: Smith and Jones.

# Your hand fits in mine like it's made just for me... #

We're performing together today,

but we are actually boyfriend and girlfriend as well.

When we sing together, there's a connection and a bond,

and I think it makes us stronger as a couple.

Mmm.

# I'm in love with you

# And all these little things. #

He's written a few songs about me before,

and that just makes me feel really special.

-He writes me love letters...

-Whoa!

-No, you do, and they're all so lush...

-Cut!

-And they're like, really poetic, and...

-Kate!

-Just say something that you put in your letters.

-You're revealing my deepest, darkest secrets.

-But they just want you to say something nice about me,

and I feel like you can't say anything nice about me.

# You say it best

# When you say nothing at all. #

No matter what happens today, we're in it together,

we're still going to have each other after this, so...

-Aah!

-..we won't completely lose.

THEY LAUGH

There is added pressure, I think, being in a couple,

because you don't want to let the other person down, and if you're

the one that goes wrong and then you don't get through, it's a bit scary.

Yeah, nobody wants to let down the person they love, do they?

# I was perched outside in the pouring rain

# Trying to make myself a sail

# Then I'll float to you my darlin'

# With the evening on my tail

# Although not the most honest means of travel

# But it gets me there nonetheless

# I'm a heartless man at worst, babe

# And a helpless one at best

BOTH: # Darling I'll bathe your skin

# I'll even wash your clothes

# Just give me some candy

# Before I go

# Oh-oh-oh

# Well, I'm often false explaining

# But to her it plays out all the same

-# And although I'm left defeated

-Go on, Danny!

# Oh, it gets held against my name

BOTH: # Darling I'll bathe your skin

# I'll even wash your clothes

# Just give me some candy

-# Before I go... #

-Oh, no! They're not going to go, are they?

# Darling I'll bathe your skin

# I'll even wash your clothes

# Just give me some candy... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Your names are..?

-We're called Smith and Jones. Katie Smith and...

-Harry Jones.

-Amazing!

-Thank you very much.

-How old are you guys?

-19.

-19, wow.

And we're a couple, also. I should probably state that.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Awesome.

Aaaah!

-How long have you guys been boyfriend and girlfriend?

-Wow! DANNY LAUGHS

-How long have you guys been boyfriend and girlfriend?

-I love it!

-How long? A year and a half..?

-That took you a while!

LAUGHTER

Just working it out.

Did you ask her, like, "Will you be my girlfriend?"

Well, we met singing at a charity event

where we were both performing as soloists, and then,

the kind of first date situation, if you like, was,

"Hey, do you want to come over to my house and sing a song together, and..?"

LAUGHTER

Don't worry, I've tried that one myself!

It worked! Didn't that work for you? It worked for me.

But I was so nervous, because I fancied him so much, that I couldn't sing.

Oh, yeah, that's what they all say!

LAUGHTER

Well, I thought it was great, I really did. I'm so glad that Danny has turned around,

-because I think you're amazing, and at 19, incredible.

-Yeah.

-Your harmonies are lovely.

-Thanks.

-Really great, and congratulations on being in love and here and together.

-Thank you very much.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

You guys are boyfriend and girlfriend,

you guys are obviously in love, right,

and you guys like singing harmoniously,

so that represents love, you know?

Don't break up!

THEY LAUGH

-Cos I'm telling you...

-That's good advice!

You can't be fighting, during the battles and stuff...

I've said that. What if you're arguing?

You won't want to sing together.

Yeah, what if you guys go out to eat and you are eating too loud,

and you're like, "Honey, don't, it's disgusting." In the end...

Then you come and sing and stuff on a battle...

Danny's going to control that,

cos he's going to be like a counsellor, relationship coach...

DANNY LAUGHS

Crisis management, yeah, exactly.

But you guys are really cool, you guys are special.

APPLAUSE

You're with the right manager.

-I think Danny is going to work great with you.

-Thanks, Tom.

-Yeah, thanks, Tom.

I was looking for something that had a bit of energy in it,

bit of youth, great harmonies, I mean, perfect harmonies, you can totally tell that...

I don't know if you're trying to impress her by harmonising or you impressing him, but genuinely,

you guys literally sound like you've been playing all your lives together.

-That's what I love, I love the intricacies, the harmonies.

-Yeah.

I think where going to blend really, really well together,

and welcome to Team Dan!

-CHEERING

-Team Dan!

Aaah...

By the way, there'll be none of that now!

APPLAUSE

But welcome to The Voice, you're on the right team, Team Dan all the way.

-You're welcome. Thanks very much.

-Thank you!

CHEERING

Congratulations.

I honestly thought I was going to be the first person to wet myself!

LAUGHTER

That's what I was waiting for!

BOTH: # Danny-y-yyy... #

THEY LAUGH

I think I'm too picky.

-Yeah.

-That's why I'm single!

-You single?

-Yeah.

Do you want to be my boyfriend? HE LAUGHS Ohh...

27-year-old Liam Tamne wants to swap one big stage for another.

In Les Mis, I play the character Enjolras.

I'm so proud of my musical theatre background.

But from such a young age, I've always wanted to be a recording artist,

and so I feel now is the time that I make that step.

What song are you doing?

-I'm singing Maxwell, This Woman's Work, but it's originally Kate Bush.

-Yeah.

The reason this song means so much to me is because of my nan.

She brought me up from such a young age,

and she was a mother figure to me.

Last year, she became very ill,

and then she passed away three weeks later.

-CLEARS THROAT

-I'm so sorry.

CLEARS THROAT

I picture it in the song, that's why it means quite a bit to me.

Even though it's a sad song, but then when I sing it,

it's a completely different feeling.

It's a feeling of, like, acceptance, in a weird way.

I know there's many people out there who have probably gone

through similar experiences that I have.

I can finally put my nan at rest.

She's always wanted me to be a recording artist,

and she's always said to me, "Me and your granddad will be there

"at your first concert," and I just hope that they're watching me.

# Pray God you can cope

# I'll stand outside

# This woman's work

# This woman's world

# Ooh, it's hard on a man

# Now his part is over

# Now starts the craft

# Of the father

# I know you've got a little life in you yet

# I know you've got a lot of strength left

# I know you've got a little life in you yet

# I know you've got a lot of strength left

# Should be crying but I just can't let it show

# Should be hoping but I can't stop thinking

# All the things we should've said that we never said

# All the things we should have done that we never did

# All the things that you wanted from me

Woo!

# All the things that you needed from me

# Oh, darling, make it go

# Just make it go away. #

CHEERING

Take it in! Take it in.

-Yes!

-Take it in, take that all in!

-Thank you.

-What's your name?

-Liam.

-Liam?

-Yeah.

-How are you?

-I'm good.

-Did you enjoy that?

I did, I mean, this song means so much to me,

because of personal reasons.

-Yeah, you can tell.

-So, um...

I'm just so pleased that you have all turned round, because even if you didn't turn round,

it was a big achievement for me to sing that song.

CHEERING

You sound like so many singers that I listen to and that's rare to hear.

That was very, very, very good.

There are very few people that I hear that I want to sing with

and write with, and genuinely go, "I really want to make you what you deserve to be."

You have so much potential and I would be excited to have you on my team, so it's your choice, but...

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

And you're really cute!

God, where do I start?

The only indicator I have is the hairs on the arms, and they were standing up on end.

Amazing falsetto. Really amazing.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Thank you.

What's your background?

Well, I'm in musical theatre, and I've done so many shows,

and I'm currently in Les Mis. I play a character called Enjolras.

APPLAUSE

That's amazing.

I thought it was great.

And when you first started to sing, I thought it was a girl.

LAUGHTER

That was in my mind. When you went into the lower register,

I thought it was another person.

I thought there were two people up there,

because it is so different, you know...

When I first heard it, I thought I heard a choir.

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

Whoo! Whoo!

Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo!

That was, er...

Spectacular. I turned around first.

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

I didn't have to hear a lot.

If they just gave me three seconds, and you just did one note,

I could hear it.

I know exactly how to coach you.

And it's going to be fun.

If you...

I honestly didn't expect this! Um...

This is so hard!

CHEERING

Come on over here!

Liam...

Liam...

Come on over here!

-Can I say one last thing?

-Yeah.

-Your name is William?

-Yeah, Liam is an Irish name.

-I know. But Liam, I mean, my name is Liam.

Will-Liam.

I know this! I know this!

LIAM LAUGHS

CHEERING

I'm going to go with Will.

No!

No!

-William.

-It's on now!

I've a pretty solid team.

CHEERING

I can't believe it.

Like, it's such a huge honour to sing in front of them,

and then to sing the song now that means so much to me, it's just crazy.

Ohh, Liam, I can't stop thinking about Liam.

I think I've fallen in love.

Next up to perform is 52-year-old Kym Mazelle,

who has chosen The Voice to make her big comeback.

Don't call it a comeback. I never left!

LAUGHS

OK...

Next to perform is 52-year-old Kym Mazelle, and this is not a comeback.

My showbiz age is 48.

Third time lucky.

Next up is 48-year-old Kym Mazelle,

and this is most definitely not a comeback.

LAUGHS

I've had a number of career highlights.

# Enough is enough is enough... #

House music...

Recording with Soul II Soul,

every week, I think, I was on Top of the Pops.

Just really loved every minute of it.

# Never be hung up

# Hung up like my man and me... #

-THEY LAUGH

-I love it!

I took some time out of the music industry,

but I just missed the audience so much.

LAUGHS

Despite all my years of experience, I am not good at auditioning.

My nerves go and my voice goes everywhere.

Maybe the coaches will recognise my voice, maybe they won't.

But they will recognise that there is soul in this voice.

LAUGHS

It's good to see y'all! Hear me now!

# Love is a burning thing, yeah

# And it makes a fiery ring

# Bound by wild desire

# I fell into a ring of fire

# Uh-huh

# I fell into a burning ring of fire

# I went down, down, down And the flames, they grew higher

# And it burn, burn, burn, burn

# Ooh, it burn

# The ring of fire

# The ring of fire

# The taste of love is sweet

# When hearts like ours meet

# I fell for you like a child

# Oh

# But the fire grew wild

# And I fell into a burning ring of fire

# I went down, down, down

# And the flames, thy grew higher

# And it burn, burn, burn, burn

# Ooh, it burn

# The ring of fire

# The ring

# Of fire. #

CHEERING

Thank you.

-LAUGHS

-Thank you.

Thank you.

Whoo!

What's your name?

My name's Kym Mazelle, I'm from Gary, Indiana.

-Oh..!

-Can I get a little help from you, Will,

-to help me down these stairs, baby?

-Oh, yeah. You've got to stay there for a little bit.

-I've got to stay here for a little bit?

-I'll stand next to you.

-You'll stand next to me?

-Yeah.

-SHE LAUGHS

-So...

CHEERING

SHE LAUGHS

How long have you been in London, Kym?

I've been in London for over 20 years, actually.

Yeah, I came over here to bring house music to the UK about 20 years ago.

That's fresh.

-And I was one of the lead singers with Soul II Soul, um...

-Oh!

CHEERING

-..with Chaka Khan, with Mick Jagger, I worked with a lot of people.

-You really, really, really good.

SHE LAUGHS

-Soul II Soul was my favourite, that's like my favourites, right there.

-Was that your favourite?

-Yes.

-Yes, yes, that was like...

-That's the 90s.

-SHE LAUGHS

Make some noise for Kym, she's fab.

CHEERING

-Hi.

-Hello, how are you, Sir Tom?

-I'm fine, thank you.

-You know, you've been singing a long time, as you just said.

-Yeah.

Maybe you could tell us to go and take a hike!

-You know, it didn't gel for me, you know, The Ring of Fire...

-OK.

It's all about a soul approach to a country song,

-sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't.

-Yeah.

-But I think your singing was better than what you did with the song.

-OK.

-But that's the only criticism I have.

-OK.

APPLAUSE And I recorded that song myself, as well.

-Oh, did you?

-Yeah. There's not many songs I haven't recorded, to be honest!

-OK.

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

I personally...

I personally want to thank you for, you know, being a pioneer

-and coming from America to bring house and dance music to the UK.

-Thanks for that.

-Because without that, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing.

-Thank you.

-Oh, right on.

-Thank you.

-Respect. Thank you.

-Let's go down here.

-OK.

There's not really much you can tell a pioneer on what she did wrong.

She just picked a bad song.

Every musician has their inspirations, and for Nadeem Leigh,

inspiration is very close to home.

My mum has been incredibly influential.

My earliest memory is of helping her with the house work, listening

to Stevie wonder and Gladys Knight and the Pips,

and as I grew up, I really started to love music and performed

to music, and I've always been in bands ever since, really.

I lost my mum when I was 19, and it was a tough time to get through.

I experienced quite a lot of addiction and homelessness,

but even at my real, kind of, low times, when I didn't

feel like I had anything inside, there was always the desire to

just get on the street around Leeds and start singing and performing.

# I know that things can really get rough... #

Music was the thing that I felt healed me the most.

I guess it's that spiritual lubricant. If I'm in a good

mood, it makes me in a better mood, if I'm in a bad mood, it, kind of,

allows me to be in that bad mood and give me permission to be who I am.

I've been through some hard times in the past,

but that is just what it is, that's the past and what I do is,

I put all of that experience into my music today and focus on the future.

Music is the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

You spend so long, kind of, struggling and thinking,

"Man, I'm just going to give up," you know?

So to have the opportunity of having a real shot at a career in music,

it means the world to me.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# I have climbed the highest mountains

# I have run all through the fields

# Only to be with you

# Only to be with you

# And I still haven't found what I'm looking for

# Oh, and I still haven't found, no, no

# What I'm looking for

CHEERING

# Can't take my eyes off of you

# Can't take my eyes off of you

# Can't take my eyes off of you

# And I still haven't found what I'm looking for

# Oh, and I still haven't found, no, no

# What I'm looking for. #

CHEERING

You know what, I've been waiting for someone to come on

and sing a U2 song with a bit of meaning, a bit of passion,

a bit of something different. Every hair on my arm was standing up there.

-Bless you.

-And that's the sense of magic, man, thank you. Thank you!

-Thank you.

-Thank you so much.

-Hi.

-Hi.

-What's your name?

-Nadeem.

-Nadeem?

-Yeah.

-And how old are you, Nadeem?

-I'm 34.

-That was great.

-Thank you.

-Um... Lovely.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

And there are moments in this competition where the competition

and the competitive side of me comes out and I'm like,

"I'm going to push my button and I'm going to fight and pitch against Danny,"

and then there's other times when you go...you know what?

You were singing I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For,

and I think you have now.

Oh!

Thank you.

No, I think you guys are a perfect match

and I'm really happy that you guys are going to be working together.

Come on, do you not understand how hard it is to play guitar

-and sing that flawlessly?

-It is really hard.

It's really, really hard. So again, I commend it.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE I commend you.

-Thank you.

-How long have you been playing?

-I've been playing since I was, like, 16 years old,

I've been playing semi-professionally all my life,

-just trying to get some kind of success going, really.

-Get a break.

-Year, I started off as a busker, that was my...

-Me, too!

Then I got into soul music and things started changing, and so...

-Yeah, but I'm just trying to make a living out of this now.

-Yeah.

-Because I love it, it's all I do. It's all I do.

-I think...

I think I can speak for the rest of the UK in saying

that you can probably give up the busking, mate!

THEY LAUGH

Genuinely, I'm going to text all the lads in U2, and just tell them

-to check it out, because that was really, really special.

-Wow, thank you.

That means a lot, man, thank you.

Welcome to Team Dan!

CHEERING

# I just found what I'm looking for... #

Yes!

CHEERING

Ohhh!

CHEERING

-That's a corker!

-Yeah!

-That's a corker.

-Yeah.

-I'm still standing up!

I've been through a lot, you know, in the last God knows how many years,

but it's been a journey getting here, you know?

-And one that wasn't too easy.

-No, I bet.

-I'm glad to just be here.

# It's been a long time coming... #

That was so good.

That was so, so good.

-He was good, he was really good.

-Did you see me? I was like, "If you turn, I will kill you."

-Yeah.

-DANNY LAUGHS

I've been waiting for Nadeem to come along, you know?

You know, the rest of them have been great singers,

they've got a great vibe I can possibly coach, but he was magic, magic.

Aged just 16,

Nick Dixon is one of the youngest acts at the blind auditions.

I started singing when I was five.

I was that this campsite, and there was this competition,

my parents were like, "go on, son, get into it."

I won, so that really got me off to, "Oh, my God, I can actually do this."

It's all he wants to do, be a singer.

-It means everything to him, doesn't it?

-It's the world.

When I was younger, I struggled quite a lot with confidence,

but with the support of my parents, I've got my confidence up quite a bit.

I do quite a lot of stuff with Red Dreams as well,

which is a charity that boosts your confidence.

I just love the fact that you've just found who you are,

and I'm just so proud of who you are now.

You know, I think it's brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

-End of!

-THEY LAUGH

When I get up on stage, it's more enjoyable

and exciting than nerve wracking. I really wish I could be out on the Wembley stage.

If I was to win this show, it would mean the absolute world to me.

And I'd be able to thank my parents, for pushing me all the way.

And I'm not going to get up there and just think,

"Oh, here I am," I'm going to think, "this is it, I'm going for it."

# When I look into your eyes

# It's like watching the night sky

# Or a beautiful sunrise

# There's so much they hold

# And I won't give up on us

# Even if the skies get rough

# I'm giving you all my love

# I'm still looking up

-Come on!

-Come on! Push it!

-# Cos even the stars they burn

# And some even fall to the earth

# We've got a lot to learn

# But God knows we're worth it

-# No, I won't give up

-Oh, my goodness!

I'm going to go out there and push the button for you.

# On us

# Even if the skies get worse

# I'm giving you all my love

# I'm still looking up

# Still looking up. #

CHEERING

-Oh!

-Come on! Oh...

Oh, well done, Nick.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Hello!

-Hey.

-What's your name?

-Nick Dixon.

-Nick Dixon? How old are you?

-16.

-Whoa!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

For 16, I think you sing great. You know, you have a great...

Thank you. Thank you very much.

So, you're 16.

That's really young.

It is tough, because your voice is going to change.

In two or three years, it's going to mature,

and I think it's natural you're going to grow into something that

I feel like would have made me press my button straight away.

At 16, you haven't quite found yourself yet,

but I think you have a big career in front of you,

and good luck to you and God bless you.

Thank you very much.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

You will get older,

but I don't think you're going to...

-DEEP VOICE:

-..start singing all deep and stuff.

LAUGHTER

-It's really not going to change that much.

-Oh, I don't know.

LAUGHTER

But come back next year...

-DEEP VOICE:

-..and, hopefully, you ain't all deep and stuff.

LAUGHTER

-APPLAUSE

-Thank you.

You know, I really should have turned around.

I think on any other show, I think you would have walked it

and gone straight on, you know, and it's stripping of, like...

-The rest of the UK are probably going, "Youse idiots."

-Cos we can't see you, we don't know...

..and you genuinely have a really, really, really great, great voice.

Pitch-wise, you were great, tone-wise you were great, and knowing that you're 16, as well,

I wish I could just turn back time and redo it, you know?

Thank you.

I really, really do.

-But there's always next year. Come back. Please.

-Absolutely.

-Love to hear you again.

-Keep doing it.

Please come back next year and do that.

Thank you.