Karise wins TV talent show
Woy Woy singer Karise Eden has won the grand final of The Voice, televised on Monday, June 18.
In the grand final, Darren Percival was voted into second place, Rachael Leahcar in third place and Sarah De Bono in fourth.
Karise, 19, made it through 10 weeks of competition to be voted by the public the winner of the first Australian season of the talent show.
Australia first met Karise when she wowed the coaches with her powerful Blind Audition song, It's A Man's World.
All four coaches, Seal, Joel Madden, Delta Goodrem and Keith Urban, turned around for her within the first few bars of the song.
After impassioned pleas from each of the coaches Karise chose to join Team Seal.
Moving into the Battle Rounds, Karise was paired against young West Australian mother Paula Parore in a battle of the powerhouse voices, singing Amy Winehouse's Back to Black.
Seal chose Karise as the winner of that battle and she joined the final six artists from Team Seal to move through to the Live Shows.
Throughout the Live Shows, Karise wowed audiences with her performances of Rebecca Ferguson's Nothing's Real But Love, Fleetwood Mac's Landslide, a top four performance with Seal of his smash hit Kiss From A Rose, and Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
In the grand final, she added a duet with Seal of Jimmy Cliff's Many Rivers To Cross, and a group performance of The Chain by Fleetwood Mac with all the finalists who made it through to the live shows.
Throughout the series Karise enjoyed multiple successes on iTunes.
All of her Live Show performances hit number one on iTunes downloads.
Her original song performance from the Grand Finale, I Was Your Girl, and her cover of Stay With Me Baby both reached number one after being released.
Karise's coach, Seal, said: "It has been the greatest honour to work with this incredible young woman, and I am so proud to be a small part of the beginning of what I know will be a long and spectacular career."
Karise said: "I am just so overwhelmed."
"If you had asked me a year ago if this is where I would be right now I would not have imagined it.
"To work with an amazing artist like Seal has been a dream come true.
"I have learnt so much that I will take through with me for the rest of my career."
Karise has won a recording contract, $100,000 and a car.
Karise performed her debut single, You Won't Let Me, for the first time after her win was announced.
The single, penned specifically for Karise, is now available on iTunes and has been launched to the Australian media.
Karise Eden's debut album, My Journey, will be released on Tuesday, June 26.
It is a collection of the songs she performed on the show, the winner's single, as well as newly recorded tracks
To celebrate the release of her debut album and to meet her fans, Karise will feature in shopping centres nationally.
She will perform and sign copies of her new album, as well as T-shirts and posters.
Media Release, 19 Jun 2012
Channel Nine