will.i.am calls Sir Tom Jones "golden ears" on 'The Voice'.
Sir Tom Jones
The 'Sex Bomb' hitmaker will return to the ITV show on Saturday (05.01.19) alongside fellow coaches will, Jennifer Hudson and Olly Murs for the seventh series of the singing competition, and the 78-year-old singer is hoping to taste similar success to last year after his act, Ruti Olajugbagbe, triumphed.
Speaking about his nickname on 'This Morning', Tom said: "will always talks about it, he calls me golden ears.
"I've had success. I won the first 'Voice', I won the first and then the last one was Ruti and she's a tremendous singer, she writes her own songs. Really, really good songs."
The Welsh coach admitted that one of the aspects he really listens out for in the blind auditions is singers giving a song their "own interpretation".
Tom added: "When they take a song, especially when you know the song, when you know the original recording of it, you want to hear something different from that singer to that song, not to copy it and that's what I listen for, for individuality.
"Realism, they need to sound like they mean it, that they live the song, that they act it out, it's almost like an actor taking on a role that somebody else has done, like a Shakespearean role for instance.
"It's been done many times but you give it your own interpretation so if you can do that when you sing then it sounds different."
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