“I've done a lot of castings in my life, I think I started when I was 16 and I was never selected. »
Eleen
is one of the hundred talents selected by the ITV Studios France teams to participate in the blind auditions for season 13 of
“The Voice”
.
After failed castings for “X Factor”, “France has incredible talent” or even “New Star”, her new attempt in “The Voice” was the right one.
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“She sings in Beyoncé’s original key, I challenge you to find someone who knows how to do that
,” Bruno Berberes told us about Eleen during the final auditions of “The Voice” in October last at Hocco Studios in Vitry-sur-Seine.
That day, the members of the jury like the casting director of the TF1 musical competition were captivated by the cover of
Listen
by the 28-year-old artist.
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“We saw your performance but we didn’t see your heart”
Zazie
But a month later, the same performance left the coaches of “The Voice” unmoved during the blind auditions.
“You have enormous talent and a voice but why did you sing Beyoncé?
»
Mika
tried to understand
.
“Because I feel like people are trying to put me into boxes and not let me express myself
,” Eleen replied.
“This song put you in a box and it becomes very difficult to show who you are
,” said the Lebanese singer.
“Very few people can sing this song like that. You have these qualities. Aim for what your heart wants to say. We saw your performance, well done for that, but we didn’t see your heart
,” added
Zazie
.
“You have extraordinary abilities but it’s you who interests us, not just the abilities,”
Vianney
told him
.
“So that we don't look back on her, the level is really very high,”
Bigflo
finally realized
.
“They will regret not having buzzed”
Fortunately, behind the scenes,
Camille Lellouche
used her power of drafting to allow Eleen to continue the adventure via the parallel competition of “The Voice Comeback”.
“She sang Beyoncé in the original key, there was not a single wrong note, it’s incredible
,” reacted the fifth coach of the season to the person concerned.
“Letting you go like that is impossible.
They will regret not having buzzed.
»
“That reassured me, I’m not crazy. I was convinced that I had put my guts into it, and no one felt it
,” Eleen confided to our colleagues at
Télé-Loisirs
.
“When they told me there was no emotion, I respected it but, deep down, I didn't agree.
When I heard back from
Camille Lellouche
, these were the nicest things anyone could say to me.
I touched someone and it's 10,000 times stronger than hearing that I sing well.
»