The Voice Australia 2025 has kicked off with the Blind Auditions, which have so far seen some highly talented contestants assigned to the coaches’ teams.
The premise of The Voice Australia 2025 is that the superstar coaches Melanie C, Ronan Keating, Richard Marx, and Kate Miller-Heidke blindly listen to contestants perform and then slam their buzzers when they hear something they like
Like last year, each coach has an ultimate block, which allows them to block all of their fellow coaches and ensure the contestant joins their team. The Voice 2025 coaches also received a block, which allowed them to block just one judge.
Find out which artists have made it through The Voice Blind Auditions
Team Richard
Richard Marx joined The Voice this season and he’s a force to be reckoned with, snapping up contestants left, right and centre. The Grammy-winning artist and producer boasts 14 number one hits and has worked with huge international artists, including Madonna, Celine Dion, Cher, Barbra Streisand, Keith Urban, and John Farnham.
Bell Parnell, 21, Sydney NSW
Bell is a fiance student and a secret singer. She’s only really sung behind doors before this — and The Voice was her first time performing in front of an audience.
Chair turns: Three (Richard, Ronan and Kate)
Team: Richard
Jakamo Sharpe, 25, Melbourne, VIC
Jakamo is a primary school teacher. He came wearing good-luck bracelets made by his students.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Richard
Bianka Jakovljevic, 16, Sydney, NSW
Bianca is a Year 11 student and the youngest artist on this season.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Richard
Hailey J, 19, Melbourne, VIC
Hailey comes from a musical family. Her mum and dad have a show together. She’s a background vocalist for her mum.
Chair turns: Two (Richard and Kate)
Team: Richard
Thr3pm, Perth, WA
Thr3pm is a Boyband from WA.
Chair turns: One (Richard)
Team: Richard
Rose Carleo, 54, Blue Mountains, NSW
According to Rose’s website, she’s an “insightful, award-winning songwriter”.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Richard
Cait Jamieson, 19, Bouldercombe, QLD
Cait’s dad was a songwriter, guitar player and singer. She lost her dad and is doing this for him.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Richard
Ally Friendship, 38, Sydney, NSW
Ally is a rock singer and mortician. She has a sixth sense and the ability to talk to the dead.
Chair turns: Two (Kate and Richard)
Team: Richard
Joseph Vuicakau, 35, Western Sydney, NSW
Joseph grew up in Fijian culture and music is a big part of his life. He teaches traditional dancing, where he met his wife.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Richard (Richard blocked Kate)
Ethan Calway, 26, Warragul, VIC
Ethan plays guitar and regularly performs in a local pub with his three brothers. Carpenter by profession
Chair turns: Four
Team: Richard (Richard used his Ultimate Block to block all other Coaches)
Team Kate
Kate Miller-Heidke returns this season of The Voice after making her debut as a coach last year, and is the only Aussie on the panel! The classically trained singer-turned-songwriter is a major threat with a successful music career that spans pop, opera, and musical theatre.
Jayd Luna, 25, Sydney NSW
Jayd is a lifeguard at a water park and was praised by Kate and Ronan for her rendition of ‘As The World Caves In’ by Matt Maltese.
Chair turns: Two (Kate and Ronan)
Team: Kate
Cecily De Gooyer, 17, Inverloch, VIC
Cecily is a classically trained singer, and Kate is her idol, so she went into the Blinds hoping she would turn the chair for her.
Chair turns: Two (Kate and Ronan)
Team: Kate
Marie Brunelli, 17, Melbourne VIC
Marie captivated the coaches with her amazing voice, sharing that singing was important to her because it helped her get through the years of high school bullying.
Chair turns: Two (Kate and Ronan)
Team: Kate (Last artist on Team Kate)
Euan Hart, 25, Sydney, NSW
Euan’s moving cover of ‘Dreams’ by Fleetwood Mac saw him choose to be on Team Kate after she said she was “totally transfixed” by the performance, with Ronan saying he already looks like a star.
Chair turns: Two (Ronan and Kate)
Team: Kate
Charlie O’Derry, 17, Port Macquarie, NSW
Charlie is a Year 12 student who works part-time in a local Thai restaurant to help support his family.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Kate
Amber Scates, 25, Melbourne, VIC
Amber is a performing artist and a singing aerialist.
Chair turns: Two (Kate Miller-Heidke and Melanie C)
Team: Kate
Brenton Kneen, 33, Cooroibah, QLD
Brenton quit his job four years ago to make music and follow his heart. He taught himself to sing like he talks (in true-blue Aussie accent).
Chair turns: Four
Team: Kate
James Van Cooper, 28, Sydney, NSW
Jamie’s mum had a touring Spice Girl Trivia show. He’s a high school dropout.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Kate (Kate used her Ultimate Block)
Sienna Langenheim, 19, Sydney, NSW
Sienna is an old soul and likes music genres from before her time, such as blues, rock and pop.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Kate
Justin Rynne, 27, NSW
He’s a DJ and loves his job, but thinks it’s time to stop playing someone else’s music and create his own.
Chair turns: One (Kate)
Team: Kate
Team Ronan
Irish singer Ronan Keating is no stranger to The Voice Australia, first appearing on the show as a coach in 2016. Now he’s back, and ready to emerge victorious.
Saralyn Matla, 35, Paterson, NSW
The country singer and mum of two took a bold risk, choosing to perform Ronan’s hit song ‘If Tomorrow Never Comes’, with Ronan calling it a “gorgeous” performance.
Chair turns: One (Ronan)
Team: Ronan
Cle Morgan, 44, Melbourne VIC
Cle left Ronan in tears after she opened up about losing her wife of 13 years only two years ago. Bonding with Ronan after he opened up about losing his brother two years ago, Cle decided to go with Ronan.
Chair turns: Two (Kate and Ronan)
Team: Ronan
Tiffney Reynolds, 34, Kadina SA
Tiffney is a bank teller with a country music background.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Ronan
Olivia Coe Fox, 21, Sydney NSW
In a Voice first, Olivia, a Wiradjuri woman, sang ‘I am Australian’, incorporating the Yawuru language (spoken in the Kimberley region of Western Australia), wowing the audience and coaches, with Ronan, Kate and many in the audience tearing up.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Ronan (Ronan blocked Kate)
Ellaphon Ta, 27, Auckland, NZ
Ellaphon is a youth worker who said that music was the saviour to his troubled childhood. The new dad wowed the coaches with a performance of hit song ‘The Middle’ by Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey, with Richard saying, “You are on the list of one of the greatest voices I’ve ever heard.”
Chair turns: Four
Team: Ronan
Milly Monk, 24, Sunshine Coast, QLD
Milly is a tarot card reader. She did her reading after applying for The Voice, and the cards told her that this is the journey she should be on.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Ronan
Mitchell Dormer, 33, Brisbane, QLD
Mitchell plays piano at a piano bar in Byron Bay. On one of his days off, Melanie C went to the bar one day and performed impromptu and he missed meeting her. After his audition, Melanie suggests that they relive the moment Mitchell missed. She invites Kate on stage to sing along Wannabe, while Mitchell plays the piano.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Ronan
Chris Cobb, 35, Sunshine Coast, QLD
Chris has a special connection Ronan; Ronan’s wife Storm and Chris’ wife are cousins. Ronan introduces Chris to everyone. The coaches are stunned when Ronan’s reveals the connection.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Ronan
Hunter Black, 21, Sydney, NSW
Hunter started as a lifeguard at age 5, as a nipper. He grew up playing piano.
Chair turns: Two (Kate and Ronan)
Team: Ronan
Alyssa Delpopolo, 19, Sydney, NSW
Kate picked her from the audience to audition after hearing her sing. She Blind Auditioned for the coaches.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Ronan (Ronan used his Ultimate Block to block all three Coaches)
Team Melanie C
Who doesn’t love a Spice Girl! Melanie C aka Sporty Spice has taken to the big red chair this season and she may have started slow recruitment-wise but she’s catching up to the other coaches and looks like a force to be reckoned with.
Meg Drummond, 43, Sydney NSW
Meg comes from a musical family. When they were very young, she had a band with her brothers and at 17, they were about to be signed to a record label, but she fell pregnant and her life changed course.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Melanie C
Cherie Sandoval, 35, Gold Coast, QLD
Professional Brazilian Samba dancer Cherie energised the crowd with her take on Ricky Martin’s ‘Livin’ La Vida Loca’, with Kate calling her a “born performer”.
Chair turns: Three (Richard, Kate and Melanie)
Team: Melanie C
Gemma Hollingsworth, 19, Melbourne, VIC
Gemma grew up playing sports. She wanted to be a professional AFL player but her dream was cut short due to a knee injury. Melanie tells her she tore her ACL too and that she has a new knee.
Chair turns: Three (Melanie C, Ronan and Kate)
Team: Melanie C (Melanie uses her Block on Kate)
Cassie Henderson, 26, Christchurch, NZ
Cassie got her first guitar when she was eight years old. When she was 14, she auditioned for another singing competition and experienced quite a bit of backlash online and it shook her confidence. She stepped away from music for a really long time after that.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Melanie C
XAZ, 20, Melbourne, VIC
By day he is Xavier, the IT guy, and by night he’s XAZ, the rap god. His ultimate dream is to be the first Australian rap mogul. He wants to put Australian rap on the map. He started singing at 10 and at 13, released his first song.
Chair turns: Three (Melanie C, Ronan and Richard)
Team: Melanie C
Callan James, 25, New Zealand
Callan is 25 and from New Zealand.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Melanie C
Boriss Bendrups, 18, Castlemaine, VIC
Boriss is a drummer and has recently started singing. It’s his first time singing on a stage.
Chair turns: Two (Kate and Melanie C)
Team: Melanie C
Matthias Gault, 21, Perth, WA
Matthias has been playing musical instruments since he was four. Inspired by his jazz violinist grandfather. He’s a frontman of a band called The Kickons. He plays Piano. Melanie plays a video from Coldplay’s Chris Martin who encourages Matthias to join Team Melanie C. Then Richard shows him a text he got from Chris that morning wishing him luck for The Voice Australia, showing that he has a connection with Chris as well.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Melanie C
Lilli Vitagliano, 22, Adelaide SA
Melanie got on the stage to sing the song with Lilli. and joined her for a rendition of Say You’ll Be There by the Spice Girls.
Chair turns: Two (Melanie and Ronan)
Team: Melanie C
Sharon-Rose Rateni, 19, Melbourne, VIC
Sharon-Rose is adopted and her biological mother is from Zimbabwe, who came to Australia to study and fell pregnant. Her parents adopted her when she was five months old. She grew up in a very big Italian family.
Chair turns: One (Melanie C)
Team: Melanie C
The Voice Australia continues 7:30pm, Monday and Tuesday on Channel Seven and 7plus.
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