The Voice UK winner reveals plan to ‘make history’ as first chart-topping success story

The Voice UK victor Ava has said she is striving to ‘make history’ by chasing chart-topping success.

Last period the 20-year-old canine groomer from Bristol was announced arsenic the victor of the ITV world singing competition.

After turning the chairs of each 4 judges during her Blind Audition with a rendition of Damn Your Eyes by Etta James, she chose to articulation the squad of McFly’s Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones.

Making it done the Callback stage, Ava went connected to execute The Long and Winding Road by The Beatles successful the last arsenic good arsenic a duet of Hoobastank’s The Reason with her coaches.

After a tense decision to the series, she past announced arsenic the winner, taking location £50,000 and a travel to Florida.

Since her triumph was announced, some of Ava’s covers person been released, with The Beatles’ opus reaching the fig 3 presumption connected The Big Top 40 Chart.

The merchandise of the azygous with her coaches is besides a archetypal for The Voice UK.

Reflecting connected her occurrence to date, Ava said she was moving towards becoming the astir palmy victor of the amusement since it started successful 2012.  

‘I deliberation the past enactment of The Voice that everybody knows about, I deliberation it would beryllium an perfectly unthinkable accomplishment if I could marque past and alteration that and I strive to beryllium the 1 to alteration that and I anticipation I tin be,’ she told Metro.

‘If I tin bash this the close mode and enactment existent to myself, I deliberation I tin support the radical who link to my euphony astir me.

‘I’m not retired determination looking to beryllium the adjacent apical thing, I conscionable privation to find my radical successful this satellite that get wherever I americium coming from and if that means a batch of people, past get maine up there,’ she added.

Speaking astir her tendency to ‘make herself and fans proud’, Ava said she would beryllium thrilled with immoderate happens on the way.

‘I volition ever beryllium grateful, but I americium striving for implicit axenic and utter transportation with the world. Music is specified a cosmopolitan connection I deliberation I tin usage it to enactment a spot of bid retired into the world,’ she added.

Since being announced arsenic the winner, Ava said she’s faced ‘a premix of emotions’.

‘It’s been astonishing but besides overwhelming. I deliberation having specified a passionateness for singing, I ever had it successful the backmost of my caput wondering if I could amusement people…it’s been brainsick to spot them reciprocating. It’s been astonishing and my beingness has changed, and I americium present focusing connected euphony much which is simply a imagination of mine, truthful I americium precise blessed astir that,’ she explained.

With nary vocal grooming down her, Ava had ne'er considered signing up to the amusement earlier being contacted by a shaper inviting her to audition.

‘It wasn’t truly thing that ever crossed my mind. If you cognize me, I don’t truly similar being the centre of attention. Whenever I ticker these programmes, I ne'er ever saw myself having the assurance to get up there,’ she said.

‘But 1 time I was astatine the canine groomers, and I received the connection from idiosyncratic saying they had seen videos I’d posted online and I thought “all I’m ever doing is this 9-5, wherefore not springiness it a go?”. I ever accidental nary but this clip I thought I wanted to effort and bash thing I could person a spell at.’

The determination intelligibly paid off, with Ava flooded with enactment from viewers passim her clip connected the series.

The occurrence she recovered connected the amusement besides near her with monolithic assurance boost she ne'er thought possible.

‘I’m sitting successful my caput close present wondering what I americium susceptible of, due to the fact that I knew I could deed a fewer notes, but I had nary thought I had the assurance to basal connected a signifier and truly bash that and instrumentality to it and propulsion myself retired of my comfortableness zone,’ she said.

‘Now I’ve learnt things astir myself I didn’t cognize I’m conscionable going to support going and instrumentality the opportunities coming my mode and spot wherever I acceptable successful this world. I cognize determination is simply a spot for me, I conscionable request to fig retired wherever it is.

‘Winning the prize and going done the process and healing things astir myself I didn’t realise I needed to, it’s each beingness changing.’

In the adjacent fewer weeks and months Ava plans to grounds immoderate of her ain euphony and would besides emotion to merchandise much covers of the songs she performed connected The Voice.

But it’s getting retired and gathering her fans she doesn’t privation to miss retired on.

‘Hopefully I tin get immoderate unrecorded shows due to the fact that that’s wherever I emotion to be. I emotion the energy, the earthy absorption from radical and being connected with everyone,’ she said.

After being announced arsenic the victor of The Voice UK 2024, Ava said connected the amusement she was ‘speechless’ but felt ‘honoured’.

The Voice is streaming connected ITVX.

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