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"We&amp;#039;re only in the third week of blind auditions in the all-new season of The Voice and we&amp;#039;ve already discovered some incredible talent. During Monday night&amp;#039;s broadcast, coaches Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Blake Shelton and Cee Lo Green continued to round out their respective teams with some fantastic vocalists, a few of whom we were lucky enough to catch up with to hear more about their thoughts on the show and their hopes for the upcoming rounds. Terisa Griffin, Jordan Pruitt, Dez Durion, Suzanna Choffel and Diego Val spoke to reporters this week about their experiences so far...  Jordan, you&amp;#039;ve had a successful career as a Disney star since you were a child. How has that helped you thus far? &amp;quot;I think the main thing that I&amp;#039;ve learned is how to interact with my fans on a very personal level and I think just being their friend. Your fans want to feel like they now you not only as an artist but as a person and that&amp;#039;s what I&amp;#039;ve learned through all my years of touring.&amp;quot; Do you think Christina is the perfect fit for you as a coach? &amp;quot;Definitely! I grew up listening to Christina Aguilera. Her first album was the first CD I ever got, so she was a big influence growing up. I had her Barbie doll and &amp;#039;Genie in a Bottle&amp;#039; was my favourite video growing up. I was thrilled she turned her chair around for me. I think she&amp;#039;s going to be a great coach and I&amp;#039;ll learn so many things from her.&amp;quot; What made you want to go for The Voice over a show like X Factor, where your former tourmate Demi Lovato is currently a judge? &amp;quot;I really like The Voice, and I wanted to audition because I feel like they have such an awesome fanbase and obviously I have an amazing younger fanbase, but I want to reach a larger demographic and touch older people&amp;#039;s lives, too. That&amp;#039;s probably why I chose The Voice, but I love X Factor, as well, and Demi Lovato.&amp;quot;  Dez, you weren&amp;#039;t successful in getting through the auditions last year. How did you prepare for your second chance? &amp;quot;This season I really just wanted to focus on my voice, getting it stronger and a bigger range so that I could do more. Also, it&amp;#039;s just about finding a style that I could learn and the song choice, too. Pop music is totally different from the gospel I grew up on. I got with a vocal coach and a guitar and piano coach. I just wanted to become the best artist that I could be. It wasn&amp;#039;t just about coming back on the show but becoming a better artist in general, in life.&amp;quot;  How did you decide on your song choice this year? &amp;quot;Obviously I put a lot more thought into my song choice this year. The first season, actually, I was walking on my way to a football meeting and I got a call from a friend who was like, &amp;#039;Hey, I got you a Voice audition. Get on a flight at 6am tomorrow morning and come out&amp;#039;, so it was very spur of the moment and last minute. I wanted something this season that I could show off what I learned from the type of music I grew up listening to. I wanted to bring that soul energy and it was a perfect fit.&amp;quot;  Did you always intend to come back and audition again? &amp;quot;Right after I got cut? I have to admit, I was pretty down when it didn&amp;#039;t happen for me. I&amp;#039;m not one to make a decision right away, but I felt like I did a pretty good job so it was really hard for me last year. I definitely didn&amp;#039;t want to be knocked down and miss it twice. It took a lot of time for me to build up the courage and the desire to want to come back for season three, but you have to make the decision even if it&amp;#039;s scary or you think it could go really bad. I had to take the risk and I&amp;#039;m glad I did.&amp;quot;   Terisa - you really grilled the coaches and gave them a hard time, albeit playfully. Was that planned? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll be very honest - they told me before I went out that I could ask questions, so I asked questions. I didn&amp;#039;t quite know that my alter ego would surface and have so much fun, but unfortunately, she did! I figure at 42, I have nothing to lose. I have a great life already and I&amp;#039;ve been through a lot and my roommate, Suzanna, will tell you that even while I was there, I had a breast cancer scare. There was a lot emotionally going on with me, so it was important I made the right choice. If I never had the chance again, I needed to pick someone who wouldn&amp;#039;t give up on me quickly.&amp;quot;  You&amp;#039;ve had quite a bit of experience working with the soul legend Jerry Butler. Can you tell us a bit more about that? &amp;#039;He&amp;#039;s basically taught me practically everything I know with handling a crowd and how to get them to pay attention, how not to over-sing things when there&amp;#039;s a peak moment in the song. He&amp;#039;s just such an amazing person. I was living in my car when I met him. I got to Chicago and he saw me singing at a tribute and I kinda lucked out. Someone heard me and said if I went to sing there, I would get a gig. I never dreamt I would have had a gig with him. It&amp;#039;s been incredible. I couldn&amp;#039;t have asked for a better mentor or dedicated person.&amp;quot;  You&amp;#039;re on Team Blake - what do you hope to get out of your time with him? &amp;quot;I love writing music and I hope that Blake gets that even in your 40s, people buy adult music. That&amp;#039;s the sad part about the music industry - once you get to a certain age, they&amp;#039;re not marketing to adults anymore. I hope he gets that adults still have life with music. You can&amp;#039;t stop aging, so hopefully he&amp;#039;ll get that and love my voice enough to keep me moving forward.&amp;quot;   Suzanna, how would you describe your style? It seems pretty eclectic!&amp;quot; &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s the hardest question for me to answer. I kind of describe it as indie school pop - it&amp;#039;s kind of brought on by an influence of country, folk, jazz, hip hop, reggae and Brazilian. I&amp;#039;m too influenced by too many styles of music but it is what it is. That&amp;#039;s my mixture.&amp;quot; Diego, you talked a lot in your VT about spending time with young cancer patients after your own difficult childhood, medically speaking. Why is giving back so important? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not even about my time. For me, I want to give back. I spent so much time in the hospital when I was a kid and I remember feeling lonely and just... it sucked, man! It really sucked to be the kid that was sick and no-one would pay attention to you. I was the black sheep to my friends and no-one would look at me because of how I looked and what I had. To go back and spend time with the kids, it&amp;#039;s not even about me, I do it because I know they need it. &amp;quot;God gave me the gift to sing and perform and I&amp;#039;ve seen studies about what music can do for kids and how much it helps. I think it&amp;#039;s easier to perform in front of 20 million people on live TV than to do so in front of kids who have cancer. It&amp;#039;s so natural to just go and do that but it&amp;#039;s not something I can do every day. I try to do it at least once a month, and I try to go to different hospitals. It&amp;#039;s one of the hardest things I&amp;#039;ve done in my life, to be honest.&amp;quot;   What made you choose to sing Neon Trees? &amp;quot;Honestly, I don&amp;#039;t really sing any covers and that&amp;#039;s the only one I had in my head that I can right away perform. At the same time, I literally learned the song about a week before I picked it. My manager had me listen to it and I thought it was interesting. When I heard it, I thought it would be neater if I made it my own. I&amp;#039;m not used to singing covers so I had to transform it so I could feel comfortable with it.&amp;quot;  The Voice airs Monday and Tuesday nights on NBC "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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