Best of Week 2 | The Voice Australia 2026 [4K]

I need you to tell me, baby, a song, a tune that I do, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do, I Thank you. Congratulations. That was a performance. Thank you very much Thank you amazing What's your name? And where are you from? My name is Taylor Beatle Williams. I'm 37. I'm from Maricville in Sydney Tell me about the background how long you've been singing. I want to know everything Wow I've been performing and writing and and that for for many years and it runs in my family. My dad is a Kiwi music legend This is Mark Williams, he's the frontman of dragon Dragon Iconic. Yeah It's been it's been a real pleasure to be Sort of following in his footsteps and and arrive here and kind of make this my own my own journey now It's lovely to meet you Taylor and when that song started I was like half excited and elated and half petrified It's such an incredible song it's become an instant classic Ray an Extraordinary artist. I mean you owned that, you know, once we turned Physically you were in you are on it. I would love you to be on my team It will be an absolute pleasure and honor to work with you through the show. Thank you Taylor how are you? Hello. Welcome to the voice. Thank you. This stage is your comfort zone. You have a confidence You're comfortable. You have the talent you have the ability you can perform and I would absolutely be honored to have someone like you on my team, so Thank you Taylor that was so amazing and I want to echo what Mel said Which is taking on a song that's that difficult to sing Was a brave choice the more the song went on the more confident you sounded that's a great testament to your experience You're exactly where you should be right now right now Thank you I'm season record producer and songwriter for a lot of different people I would love to use that Experience to take someone like you to the next level and I think I would be a really really great coach for you And I would love you to come to team Richard. Thank you very much. Thank you You are a Marvel, you're a little firecracker just an energy ball that came on that stage and delivered that song which is Technically so difficult and so precise but you did it with ease I mean, you're a natural singer you you've got chops. I think it was the perfect song to choose I and I love Ray In fact, my artist last year sang a ray song for the semifinal and she actually went on to win the entire show really Okay, I'm so confident I can take you with me again all the way to the top Then to be artist number one on team Kate I can't lose this where are the Queen's companions Desperation is a terrible thing My oh my chop-chop the Queen the Queen I just thought you might like to Experience wearing the crown. Are you joking? It can't say no to Kate now can she or she can the drama Well Taylor Taylor, I really hope she picks you now Taylor this is what you're gonna have to deal with every day. Yeah It's not gonna be about you. It's gonna be a bad. Yeah, you need someone who's going to cater to your needs Yeah to your town Taylor Please pick me pick me here. Oh, no. I don't know who she's gonna pick now. First of all, this is insane Thank you very much all of you for turning your chair, I am Each and every one of you. Thank you so so much If I have to which I do need to choose a team It might just have to be team Kate God you can call This woman's It's hard I know you have a little life in you. Yeah, I know you have a lot of strength We never did Make it go Confident young Incredible performer. My name is Charlotte June. I'm from Adelaide CBD and I'm 22 years old Hi Charlotte. How are you? The voice What's happening well you belong here whoever you go with I'm excited that you're on the show truly because You're magnificent. Your voice is outstanding You have a voice it needs to be heard. You are incredibly special Charlotte Thank you. Thank you. That's insane It's so rare that we have these moments everyone in this room our heartbeat synced in that moment Like we were just so locked in with every single word you were singing and to me that was that was like a finalist performance, you know, it was It was breathtaking Beautiful and you got the four chair turns that you thoroughly deserve Everyone's brilliant. I would love to have you. Thank you, Melanie Wow, we have not had a moment like that on the voice this year. Oh my god Thank you so much song. That's I mean, it's one of my favorite And Just to hear Kate Bush on this stage and you made it your own. I'm just so moved. I'm on the edge of tears Thank you so much. Thank you so much What made you choose that song, um, that song is super special to me My mom was diagnosed with dementia about two years ago, and I look after her and Kate Bush is one of her Favorites, it's one of her go-to songs. So I thought I'd sing it dedicated to mom. So having her on the side is like So you you care for your mom? Yeah, I look after her. How old did you say you were 22 22? Wow, that's so much to take on at that age. I think you're Amazing. My stepmother had early onset Alzheimer's and I I know I know the pain of it and I think you're absolutely remarkable for standing on this stage and singing that song for your mother Thank you All of these coaches are incredible. But come on, let's face it. You belong on my team. I Haven't felt this strongly about an artist yet. I Tell you how much I want you. You're a true artist. Thank you. And I'm here for you now and into the future Thank you Charlotte I feel like I was privileged to hear that that was a privilege to hear something triggered something in me Because I love that song and I love Kate Bush, but like Kate said you made that your own so Hang on so I lost my mom a Few years ago. She was my best friend Shit, sorry. I Lost my mom a few years ago she was my best friend and a great mom and I took care of her for years my wife and I took care of her and At the end in the last month of her life. I We knew it was really near the end and She told me like right up to this point she'd even said to me the words We did it kid. She gave me that gift, you know to say there's no regrets there's no unfinished business, but she said to me you need to go sing for those people and I Knowing that now that's what you're doing because there's so much healing in what we do But I also know that you're healing yourself at the same time so how lucky are we to have that that was just Very unexpected and I'm very emotional and I can't pitch but you're you're really brilliant. You're really good She's got a hard decision to make here I Didn't think I'd be in a position where I had options to be honest I also thought I was very specific on a particular person But hearing you all pitch is like amazing I'm gonna have to go with my gut and what I Okay, the coach I'm gonna go with today is Kate Sublime Incredible they say the holy waters worn down It's Tom's lost his feet The colors will fade Eventually, so if that time is running out Day after day Make the mundane have masterpiece Take a look at you. You're taking me out Beautiful I want you laying me down Till I'm dead and buried. I'm on me on the edge of your knife Staying drunk on your vine The angels up in the clouds Jealous, no, we found Hello What's your name, my name is Sam, I'm 27 and I'm nervous my legs are shaking They're going hey, why they'll calm down a bit Well, Sam, welcome to the voice 2026 mom. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Wow. Holy moly for chair turn Well deserved mind-blowing Tell us about yourself. Um, yeah, so I'm a dad as you can probably see and I'm a teacher So I run my own little music studio. So you teach music. Yeah, what age? I have a five-year-old and then I have 85 year old student So I love my students to pieces, but I just want more of them I want to show everyone why I love music and how to understand it And I feel like if I can teach people to understand music the way that I do They'll love music the way I do and I think that's awesome. Yeah on your mom He's really sweet. All right. Okay. So you're a music teacher talk me through the performance. How do you think it went? Oh, man I got notes Give me some notes. I Think I needed to hit some more notes. But yeah, I think I fell into it and and the chorus I think glad I'm glad you say that because I look that first verse we could hear the nerves you could hear it clear eyes You weren't getting there and I thought I'll know but when you got to that chorus Sam every one of us We all turned at the same time pretty much. It was quite Magical man, I'm on it. Thank you guys so much and I can I Hear what you have I can definitely help you get to your maximum because I know what you can achieve You can go all the way to the final man, but you gotta be on team Ronan You gotta burn you just so persuasive. My only real disagreement with anything Ronan just said is You got me from note one, even though I could hear some nerves. I could hear you immediately Fight the nerves off you got me to do this and That's what it's all about. My favorite moment was your face when you looked up and you saw that we all turned for you It was just pure joy, but it was also like I got this and you play piano We play piano we're both boy singers I am the absolutely perfect coach for you Come to team Richard Hey Sam What you said about your love of music that makes so much sense after hearing that performance I think it's so authentic I loved that human elements of hearing those nerves and then the discipline that it took For you because you were you were so up here and then all of a sudden you were just in it and we were with you From beginning to end and that is thank you so much. It really is Great work together. I think you have a great home on team. Melanie. See, thank you so much. I Just want to say I come from a family of teachers My parents are teachers all my grandparents were teachers and you know Everyone's had that one teacher that changes your life And I I have this strong suspicion that you are that teacher for these kids. I went to school with teachers Sincere yeah, I Also want to echo Richard's comments about Ronan being so wrong about the start of the song because I and yes We could hear the nerves. We could hear you breathing into the mic before you started And I was like, oh, okay, you know strap in but then as soon as you started it was this Amazing leaning in moment you sang to us and gently drew us in I think you've got so much raw talent and musicality and I would absolutely love to work with you on team Kate Thank you. Thank you. That'd be amazing Sam, you know, they've sugarcoated it down the end here. They they said it was perfect Oh, the first verse was great what he said, right? No, but you you guys said you guys said Ronan's wrong and and that's fine You've got your own you guys have got your opinion. We only said that cuz you were no They want they want to pull you into their team and then later it'll be a nightmare, right? But what you want what you want is honesty what I'll always be with you is honest I've what I'm worried about is that Ronan doesn't truly understand. What's so great about you. Oh, no. No, I Got what's great? Just don't throw the baby out with the bathwater is what I'm saying with Ronan Don't listen to him all the time Look, I've managed Different bands created bands like Westlife and Kodaline and I know what it takes. I Was in the studio last week with Ed Sheeran. We've wrote a new song together. Oh, I've got ideas. Thank you I know what I know what you need. I'm not sure these guys do so Choices yourself Sam Sam. Yeah, that was that was listen. Hey, yeah. Hang on. Hang on What you just witnessed was backtracking what you just witnessed was panic when he talks and talks and talks and talks and talks That's a tell, you know, you're supposed to be on my team Gosh, they're really fighting hard for this coming to Team Richard Sam come to Team Richard Just just do it. Just put them out of their misery. Just do it I honestly think you guys are all perfect and as much as I want to be in every one of your teams I think I think Yeah, I think Like one of my my one of my all-time favorite artists said life is like the roller coaster Very strong voice very strong voice Oh Amazing Wow Very deserved very very deserved for chair turn Wow Wow First and foremost, welcome to the voice. You're in I Actually really did not think anyone would well, yeah, it was really hard to hold that note cuz I'm freaking out That was an incredible way to end that performance Yeah, you were holding your head head back like that in case anyone watching at home doesn't know that is so hard to do Cuz you're basically cutting off like your larynx from your lungs and it's an impressive feat It's like it should be an Olympics for that. That was so bad Tell us your name My name is Tika sit niche. I'm 35. That was so impressive like and really fun and you got everybody fired up That's one of my favorite rock songs. I think even Steve Perry would be sitting here going damn Oh, yeah, and he's one of the greatest but I will say that, you know Even though I know that I'm known as this a balladeer stuff, but I started at rock radio My first hit in America was number one on the rock charts. It's called don't mean nothing And so I am the perfect coach for you Tika I'm the perfect coach for you Thank You Tika Congratulations. It's so amazing to have you here Obviously your voice drew me to turn around and then I loved your physicality Yeah, there was just so much confidence within that. I love all genres of music I've had my rock era and I would love to work with you. I think we could do some great stuff on team Melanie soon How are you? I'm freaking out You're all saying I'm like Don't be Steve Perry possibly one of the greatest male singers of all time I mean what a voice and you took that on and you gave it your own personality and it was incredible You're something special Tika. So please come to team Ronan. Come on What strikes me is that you are this like? absolute all-powerful Goddess when you performed it and now when you speak you're like this and all of us step into a different persona When we're on stage, right, you're like the best most fierce version of yourself But where does all that confidence come from? Um, I always say I have an alter ego when I go on stage I do struggle with a lot of self-belief always a voice in the back of my head going. No, you're not good enough So when I'm on stage, I leave that side back there because I love this We all have that little voice in our heads, right? Yeah, and that little voice says you're a fraud and one day you are gonna find out you're not good enough But you're an absolute rock star. That performance was golden. That is one of the most energized Ecstatic performances we've seen on this stage and the audience reaction speaks for itself. I would so Love to have you on team Kate Take a one more thing one more thing I want to say imposter syndrome is a real thing if you work with me One of the things we're gonna work on is that and beyond your singing? Because you have to have at least a certain amount of I belong here because you belong here All right. Well, you have a decision to make now Tico. Oh, wow For all of you I'm gonna go Richard Congratulations, you're so great. Great choice. That was the right choice. Yeah, we're gonna kill it. We're gonna kill it. Yeah Congratulations It's all the same Seems Okay to work with that He's got control Please or I'll give it to him the crowd What's your name, how old are you tell us your backstory? My name is Jack. I'm 29. I'm from Sydney, Australia But originally I'm from Liverpool And unfortunately, so I don't know how this is. How do they all get in here? That's terrible You know, what's so funny is before you started singing because we often get lots of support Of course from family and friends, but they were just a little bit noisier And I thought we just heard a little accent didn't we so when she's got more liver puddling What's happening Mel And Brilliant rock performance. I mean energy great love the gravel in your voice turned round It was wonderful to see great physicality as well. And so Bon Jovi big fan huge fan huge fan of a big rock old rock 70s stuff and You know like a lot of the stuff like these scarves Steven Tyler Aerosmith ever pants Jim Morrison boots a little bit Bon Jovi and the shirts is from Zara. So No, this is a thing about Liverpool we have a huge musical heritage don't we it's in our blood It's in our bones and we're very very proud as a city growing up mom was a singer and you know family for the show ponies and singers, so It was bound to happen. So did did you when we sitting in Liverpool as well? Yeah Yeah, they were a bit of a ripoff of the Spice Girls. Oh That's brilliant. And so obviously I turned I think we have a kinship We've got lots to talk about and I've got lots to talk about with your mom. I'd love you, but obviously Kate would too I'm a bit Concerned about this whole liver puddling and thing. Well, if Kate pulls out the crown again, I'll block her myself It's not ideal for me. But look I thought that was spectacular Rocking out in my chair, you've got such a powerful voice, you know I think that's why I turned because it was like just this v8 engine full of rock and uh, I was wondering You know that gravel in your voice that Mel was talking about. Do you have control over that? Can you choose to put that in or not? Yeah, it's a song I can only do a few times, you know Yeah, and then I have to be wheeled out afterwards That's what I I actually heard a bit of that and I thought well if I had the privilege of being his coach Which I'm hopeful that I will get I would encourage you to maybe ease off a little bit on the gravel maybe 30% less Okay. Thank you. I'll take that off. Look. It was such a powerful performance You're obviously a born singer and I'd love to have you on my team and you know, you're in Australia now Okay, we're not it. We're not in Liverpool now. So maybe I think you need an Australian coach Well, it's up to you now Jack you got to choose Yes Come on, give it to Mel Making us wait. I love the way he's thinking about it My Liverpool home That's a great choice found corner first and never when It's all but one it's too low for him He has a beautiful time Me I think you might get a turn here This Way you from my name's lay money. Oh, I'm 23. I'm from Melbourne. Your name's Liam O'Neill. Yes It must be Irish. Yeah somewhere along the lines and you're Irish. I'm Irish. I mean deal done, right? What's not to love tell tell me about yourself why are you here today? Um, I've kind of always really sung a little bit but I'm actually a plumber by trade Very handy, especially on tour buses And then yeah currently also been traveling around Australia for the last 12 months to play music or just to see the country No, just to say the country mainly so cool I think you're great. You've got you got a great tone in your voice. There was flickers of Brilliant moments. I heard the nerves. I think the the key is too low for you. You need guidance You need a great coach and I do believe Liam O'Neill from Ireland I am the right coach. So you come to team Ronan, please. Thank you very much. Come on over here Liam welcome to the voice who inspired you who are your favorite artists? I mean the idols always been Keith Urban, I guess Oh, yeah. Yeah, he's the man. I think you know interestingly I've written three huge hits with Keith Urban Seriously, you know as soon as you got into your more comfortable range with the natural part of your voice You sold me and I thought oh now I can hear all the different kind of things I could do with this guy and all the different kinds of songs you could sing and I would love you to be on my Team. Awesome. Thank you very much. I Really really enjoyed that. I love the character in your voice It's such a distinct unique kind of tone and it doesn't sound fake doesn't sound like you're putting it on It sounds like you do you write songs as well? I try. I love it I was never good at English. So writing songs was always a challenge. So there's so many different ways of writing lyrics They don't have to even make sense and you don't even necessarily have to write lyrics He's right music true when I wrote better life with Keith Urban. All I had was the beginning of that chorus I'm going someday, baby You know Right, he goes you and I are gonna be the ones I love that and I went, okay cool So you and I are gonna be the ones yeah who do what and he went no No, no, you and I are gonna be the ones and I went who what? No Richard, it's just that yeah, and then I went Oh Number one song You never know All right, Liam floors open. It's all yours. You got two coaches the big decision The coach I'm gonna choose I'll have to go with Richard Your ancestors will be disgusted with you We'll have fun I promise