Ocean Grove teenager one step closer to singing dream after turning a chair on The Voice

An Ocean Grove teenager was in hospital with tonsillitis just days before her first appearance on a popular singing TV show.

Ocean Grove's Cookie Robinson turned a chair during The Voice blind auditions and will progress to the battle rounds. Picture: Channel 7

An Ocean Grove teenager who was in hospital with tonsillitis four days before her blind audition on The Voice was able to turn the chair of the judge whose song she sang.

Cookie Robinson, who was 16 at time of filming the 2024 season of the television show, sang LeAnn Rimes’ Can’t Fight the Moonlight.

Rimes turned her chair and Cookie is now on her team heading into the battle round.

Cookie said she had been singing for as long as she could remember.

Her rendition of Set Fire to the Rain by Adele on TikTok has 14.8 million views and more than two million likes

She said ever since her social media “blew up” she had been trying to break into the industry and applying for singing shows.

@iamcookierobinson

adele is bae #setfiretotherain

♬ set fire to the rain cover - Cookie Robinson

Cookie said she was overcome with nerves heading into her audition.

“I was in hospital four days before my blind audition with tonsillitis so I was super nervous because I wasn’t trusting my voice to do the right thing as I was really sick,” she said.

“I was drinking lots of honey and lemon tea and I was on some prescribed medication to help me get through the day because it's a long day.

“I was over the moon to know I was going to continue my journey on the Voice.

“If I won, I don’t even know what I would do, I would be so overwhelmed with happiness.”

Cookie said she loves soul, RnB and pop music, and has written and released some songs of her own.

“The dream is to be selling out stadiums,” she said.

The Voice is on Channel 7 on Sundays at 7pm.

Originally published as Ocean Grove teenager one step closer to singing dream after turning a chair on The Voice