With her bags heavier than $ 100,000, The Voice winner Bella Taylor Smith revealed her plans for that cash prize.
Voice winner Bella Taylor Smith pocketed maybe $ 100,000 richer after being crowned winner, but she won’t be leaving her job anytime soon.
Taylor Smith, 23, defeated fellow G-Nation finalists, Arlo Smith and Mick Harrington last night, to win the public vote. For her efforts, she received $ 100,000 in prize money and a recording deal with EMI.
She revealed on Sunrise what she was going to do with her bounty.
“Pay a few bills and hopefully plan a vacation when everything opens again,” she told Sunrise presenters David Koch and Natalie Barr. “Hopefully I’ll fix my life a little. It will be huge for me, this part of it. “
Since the final was recorded by The Voice months earlier – the production shot four separate versions in which each of the finalists won – Taylor Smith wasn’t actually on stage when she learned she’d won.
“I was shocked and excited, I think I could still be in shock.
“I had my partner and sister with me and we’d pop party poppers, drink champagne, and hang out with the family.
“I really never thought I would do something like this and I tried it and it went really well.”
Despite a busy few months in the spotlight, including a tour as a support act for mentor Guy Sebastian, Taylor Smith said she will keep her job as a singing teacher.
“I love teaching, I will continue to teach.”
She also said that she can’t wait to go into the studio and put out music that “represents me as an artist” and signals that she’ll be writing her own songs rather than putting out covers.
And on welcoming words to Sebastian, who had a rough week after withdrawing support for a music industry-run vaccination campaign, Taylor Smith had only nice things to say about her mentor.
She described the moment when they sang together on stage as “magical”.
“We talked last night and he’s just the best. He really invested in me and my career and he’s the most beautiful coach and mentor, I couldn’t be any more lucky. “
Channel 7 had a successful audience with its first season of The Voice after poaching Channel 9’s long-running reality contest series.
