The Voice coach Ricky Martin and team mentor
Jessica Mauboy. Picture: Channel 9 Source:
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Holly Byrnes, The Daily Telegraph, reports
Pop diva and new Voice mentor Jessica Mauboy
claims contestants on Channel 9's top-rating series are given better support
and industry head start compared with her TV talent show experience on
Australian Idol.
Helping to guide Team Ricky's hopefuls through the battle rounds, the
ARIA winner and 2006 Idol runner-up said the kind of "nurturing support"
given to contestants on The Voice was "what I needed and never got
on Idol."
The Sony artist, who has
forged an international career as both an actress (in The Sapphires) and
singer/songwriter since her reality show beginnings, said as a shy teenager from
Darwin she would have relished the "personal contact" artists on The Voice enjoy with their
coaches and mentors.
"Being a nurturing support, the back bone, really seeing eye-to-eye
with the artists (on The Voice), it's what I needed and never got on Idol.
The judges never personally came and said 'that (performance) was really great.
We never had a mentor and so that made it even harder. I was standing there
(during Voice mentoring sessions) saying 'they are so lucky.' That personal
contact and advice. It was magical. It was a moment of real love of music and
being on the same level as everyone in the room."
Her comments were echoed by Team Delta singer Mitchell Steele who placed
in the top 24 on Idol in 2008, but revealed after he was voted off that show he
"never heard a word from them ever again."
The Queensland-born singer, who was eliminated in his battle with
Bondi's Ben Goldstein, was full of praise for his Voice experience despite his
disappointment.
Steele tweeted his thanks to his coach Delta Goodrem after his loss was
televised last night, writing: "@TheVoiceAU thank you so much for the
opportunity! You're the best @DeltaGoodrem thank you!!!"
After she responded with "you're amazing," he replied:
"What a beautiful experience, Gooo @bennyg992 (Goldstein)!!!!!"
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