ALL FOUR coaches were spellbound by Echuca's Drew Walker as she performed on the premier episode of The Voice on Sunday night.
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The 23-year-old sat behind a piano and performed Down Under by Men at Work and left the four coaches mesmorised.
Coaches Jessica Mauboy, Keith Urban, Rita Ora and Guy Sebastian all turned their chairs to see the artist from northern Victoria on stage.
Mr Urban gave Ms Walker a standing ovation and said he had never heard the song sung like that before.
You can watch Ms Walker's performance here:
"I loved it," he said.
"Thank you for doing what you did. Just breaking it down to let the lyric be felt in another way and bring another focus to the story, it was beautiful.
"For me, the most important thing is not just hearing what you did, I felt what you did and so did the audience."
Ms Mauboy agreed, saying Ms Walker nailed the classic "Australian anthem".
"It's an Australian iconic anthem and everyone in this room felt that dynamic, that power," she said.
"You definitely gave that song the level of power sister. I felt like it was you and you were telling us your story through this song in this whole other way."
Ms Ora said the Echuca artist was a "ready made machine".
"We're grateful to be able to watch a performance like that and I think your vulnerability is your biggest power," she said.
"I'm not comparing you to an onion, but you know how they have layers?
"That's what you're like, you have so many layers and I think you are just going to be so strong if you don't ignore that amazing, sensitive, vulnerable side."
Mr Sebastian said she nailed the audition.
"You showed what people can do in 90 seconds. That's how an audition should go," he said.
"Men at Work have such a up-tempo, triumphant pride, but to hear that pride still there in such a delicate version was really interesting for me."
After a short deliberation, Ms Walker chose to join Team Keith.
"I didn't expect four chairs, I just wanted one, any one," she said.
"You're all amazing."
She will now move on to battle rounds once blind auditions have concluded.
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