'The Voice' is not just a singing competition. It really comes down to how you come off as a person and how you connect with America with your story, and being relatable to people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
I just wanted to keep consistent and keep true to America and not seem contrived. I didn't want to seem contrived at all with any song choice that might be a detriment to my journey on 'The Voice.'
In our country, singers are known as the voice of actors.
You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.
In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.
When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.
A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.
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