Jacquie Lee and Melanie Martinez (TV) signed to Atlantic Records (Haley Related ish)

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I didn't even watch most of Season 3 of The Voice, although I was aware of Melanie's cover of Toxic (Which the couple on xFactor sang in their audition.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZv7pmDCeeU

The cool thing about this cover is that it was her audition For The Voice. The way The Voice works is that competitors rank songs that they want to sing from 1 to 100, and then they get assigned a song. It could be number 1 or it could be number 99. So either Melanie got quite lucky, or she made up this cover (which has gone viral since) during the boot camp they do pre auditions. (To get people ready for the blind auditions.)

She also does a fantastic cover of Seven Nation Army.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOS1MiSkpdw

She certainly doesn't have the best voice in the world. But she's got a creative vision, is obviously a very good song writer..and her voice has a lot of appeal too it. To me, Melanie is what all those White Guys With Guitars wish they were. So I've certainly become a fan of hers after the show. I'm not sure if there is anyone else that applies too. Haha.

Jacquie, I think has an identity of what she wants to be, but this EP doesn't exactly showcase it as much. She's mentioned plenty of times that Adele, Amy Winehouse, Ed Sheeran, Christina Aguilera..etc..are all musical influences of hers. And they are all R&B/blues singers. I think her EP is strong song wise, but not quite the music she wants to create. The article said she sounds like early Christina. Which could be how her musical direction evolves. Where Christina was more pop/dance music in her first album, and grew into her own with Stripped and Back to Basics.