Ronan Keating has admitted he feels he lost his “dignity a little bit” when pitching for artists to join his team on The Voice Australia.
The 39-year-old revealed it took a couple of days to figure out how to trump his fellow coaches – The Maddens, Jessie J and Delta Goodrem – during the blind auditions to fill his team.
“In the first day or two I never realised how much I had to pitch and I kept losing and I’m thinking, what the f*** am I doing wrong here,” Keating told AAP.
Pitching: Ronan opened up about pitching for his The Voice Australia team
“So I had to reassess my pitch and I went in harder and you lose your dignity a little bit which is kind of weird. You’re selling your soul almost.”
Replacing Ricky Martin on the series, the Dubliner admitted he never had any plans to join a rival reality show after quitting the Australian X Factor in 2015.
However, the Breathe singer revealed his wife Storm Uechtritz had some influence on his decision after she received an email from Voice producers.
“It [working on The Voice] wasn’t intended at all. I had decided not to do that anymore, so after five great years, I walked away,” Keating said.
Support: Ronan revealed that Storm gave him the nudge to do The Voice Australia | MICHAEL CHESTER
“Towards the end of last year my wife got an email from producers, because she had worked on the show, asking if I would be interested.
“It never dawned on me that I would do it…time frame worked and everything fell into place and I gave it a go.”
Speaking about the difference between the two shows, the Boyzone star admitted that he has to spend more time moulding the acts into performers rather than training their voice.
“When I was on the other show you were doing everything … now I am just trying to turn them into performers,” he said.
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“In a way, I’m not saying it’s easier, but it’s different. These are the best voices in the country … but yet a lot of them aren’t performers.”
Meanwhile, Ronan insisted he doesn’t have strategy to get his team unlike the other coaches.
“At the beginning I was watching what the other coaches were doing and pressing [their big red buzzers during the blind auditions] for, but in the end I went with my ear and when I liked what I heard, I turned,” he said.
“I didn’t have any strategy.”
