Karise competes in reality show

Umina resident Karise Higgins, 19, will appear on Channel Nine television show The Voice on Monday, April 16.

Karise completed an online audition for the reality TV show and was then selected for the blind auditions held in Fox Studios Sydney.

It is not yet known whether the blues singer will join Team Delta, Team Seal, Team Joel or Team Keith.

On The Voice, four superstar musician coaches begin to select teams of 12 based solely on an artist's voice.

Seal, Joel Madden, Delta Goodrem and Keith Urban are competing as coaches, each one hoping to discover, and nurture Australia's next great voice.

During the blind auditions, if a coach is impressed, they push a button to select the artist for their team of competitors.

They select 12 acts in total.

At this point, the coach's chair will swivel so that they can face the artists they have selected.

If more than one coach selects the artist, the power shifts to the artist who may choose which coach they want to work with throughout the competition.

An artist is eliminated when they have not been chosen by one of the coaches.

Once the teams are set, the battle is on.

Coaches will dedicate themselves to developing their singers, giving them advice, and sharing the secrets of their success.

During the battle rounds, the coaches will pit two of their own team members against each other to sing the same song together in front of a studio audience.

After the vocal face-off, the coach must choose which of his-her singers will advance.

At the end of the battle episodes, only the strongest members of each coach's roster remain and proceed to the live stage shows.

In this final performance phase of the competition, the top artists from each team will compete against each other during a live broadcast.

The television audience will vote to save their favourite talent, leaving the coach to decide live who they want to save and who will not move on.

In the end, each coach will have one star artist left ready to compete against the other teams' finalists to be named The Voice of Australia.

Tthe winner will receive the grand prize of a recording contract with Universal Music Australia and $100,000.

In an interview on A Current Affair on Thursday, April 12, Karise said she had a mixture of emotions.

"I'm a mixture of everything, cold feet yet excited and nervous, happy, sad, everything," she said.

Website, 13 Apr 2012

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