It takes a lot in life to be truly successful.
Although you definitely need some natural ability that will set you apart from the crowd, there’s a huge amount of practice that goes into honing our skills as well—and a good amount of luck, too!
Still, even if you have all of these things, sometimes success will still elude you, or you’ll face setbacks. The final ingredient may just be the willingness to continue, no matter how many times you get stopped or pushed back from your goals.
As you’ll see in the video below, that was definitely the case for young Lara Dabbagh on The Voice Australia.
For those who don’t know, Dabbagh is a 16-year-old girl from New South Wales who wants to be a singer.
As it turns out, she had auditioned for The Voice before and didn’t succeed in turning anybody’s chair around. Still, she auditioned when her musical idol and judge, Kelly Rowland, had already had a full team and was unable to include her.
Because Dabbagh was so inspired by Rowland growing up, she told her so after the show and got a big hug.
As a result, the connection between them lived on beyond that audition and Rowland even tweeted about Dabbagh’s audition!
Seeing that tweet, Dabbagh was inspired once again to give it her all once again—and to go back on the show to audition the next year.
Sure enough, Dabbagh went back on the show and brought her whole family with her to support her. As she steps out on the blind audition stage once again, it’s clear that Dabbagh is a little nervous.
In the silence, she takes a deep breath and steadies herself. After that, she starts into her rendition of “Scars To Your Beautiful” by Alessia Cara.
As soon as her beautiful voice rings out, Rowland’s head cocks a little bit like she recognizes her.
Even if she didn’t get on the show the year before, it’s clear Dabbagh has plenty of talent!
Her voice is beautiful and the song she chose is definitely a difficult one! Throughout the song, her voice moves smoothly and soars in the powerful parts.
She even twists her voice around to give the song her own distinctive delivery. Before long, one of the judges hits his buzzer!
Dabbagh’s voice is still soaring, but she’s still waiting for her idol Rowland to turn around.
As Dabbagh finished up her song, Rowland still doesn’t quite turn around in time.
Once it’s revealed who was singing, Rowland nearly falls out of her chair! Still, it’s judge Boy George who addresses the elephant in the room: “You were here before!” For her part, Rowland is beside herself for not hitting the button faster!
She even tells Dabbagh herself that she feels absolutely terrible that she can’t bring Dabbagh onto her team. “I’m really, really gutted,” she says. “I hope that somewhere along the way I’ll get you in some sort of battle, in some sort of knockout, in some sort of something!”
As Rowland says at the end: “I’m not going to mess up again!”
Regardless, Dabbagh finally gets her placement on the show that she always wanted!
Though Dabbagh’s story didn’t work out with a perfect happy ending yet, she did make it on—and there’s still time to work with her idol! Regardless, her tenacity and determination show us perfectly that if you want something bad enough, you have to just keep going for it until you finally get it.
Congratulations to Lara on making it on the show! Check out the full clip below:
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