12-Year-Old Songwriter Sounded Way Beyond Her Years With A Kate Bush Cover - The Voice.
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At just 12, Brooke Layla was already filling notebooks with songs of her own when she stepped onto The Voice stage. Her distinctive take on Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” showed a voice the coaches called instantly recognizable and ultimately led her to choose will.i.am as her coach.
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My name is Brooke Laila. I'm 12.
I live in Milton Keynes with my mum, my dad and my brother.
Brooke has just always loved singing.
When I was four or five I would just make up two lines that would rhyme
and I just sing the same thing over and over
until my mum would just go, Brooke, just be quiet.
Do you do any hobbies?
I like to write songs.
I write kind of what I'm thinking about and things that's happening in my life.
I'm still kind of experimenting because
I've grown up with listening to such different tastes of music.
The song that I'm singing today is quite quirky.
It's an old song. It's not the kind of song where you'd expect a 12-year-old to be singing.
She's so tiny and to do such a big thing is just incredible.
We're so proud of her.
I hope the coaches will be impressed by my voice.
I'm here today and I'm gonna give it all I've got.
Hello, my name is Brooke Layla.
Your voice is so good.
Thank you.
Your voice has that sort of thing where it's instantly recognisable,
where it's like, oh, that's Brooke Layla.
That's amazing.
Thank you.
Do you write songs, Brooke Layla?
Yeah, I write songs all the time. I have notepads full of songs.
You don't need much help singing.
You need probably the confidence to be able to write for other singers.
That's how I got to be a songwriter.
I wanted to write songs for other people.
And it's hard writing for yourself.
But when you write for other people, then you'll say, you know what?
I think I'm gonna keep this one.
And then you have a good hit, right?
That's how it usually works.
I'll tell you what, look at me as a sat-nav.
A what?
So what's a sat-nav?
Satellite navigation.
Oh, satellite navigation.
Oh, yeah, yeah, sat-nav.
And basically, I will try and guide you wherever you want to go,
or I'll help you get to that place.
In five metres, turn left.
At the end of the road, sing louder.
This is a hard decision for you to make.
I'm so happy that we all turned, because I really wanted him.
Danny didn't stand a chance.