Voice exit just the start: Viva

The Voice's Viva Lale has recorded a song that she wrote about tragically losing her cousins in a house fire.

SHE may be the hard luck story of The Voice, but Viva Lale sees her exit from the show's blind auditions as "the beginning not the end."

Inspired to enter the Channel 9 series after losing six members of her family in Australia's worst house fire the 26-year-old is now planning to record an emotional song she penned in honour of the tragedy.

Lale's teenage cousins, Lini Paul and Jeremiah, were among 11 people who perished in the Slacks Creek blaze in August, 2011.

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The young music lovers had urged their talented cousin to audition for the first season of The Voice, but the grief-stricken songbird instead channelled her loss into a heartbreaking tribute song, God's Got You.

Viva Lale  who tried out at the blind auditions for The Voice Australia says her exit from the show is the beginning not the end. Picture: Dew Annette

The lyrics chart the horrifying night Lale and her family were telephoned with the news of the blaze at the new home her relatives had only recently moved to after living across the road from her in the Queensland town of Goodna.

In an exclusive acoustic performance of the track for News Limited, Lale sings: "that morning our lives had changed, I still remember the calls that were made, the chill and emptiness that came, like a hollow cave deep down and so far away."

"I just want to bring back a day, at least an hour or even a second of happiness and love that we shared, even though it hurts so bad, and our memories are all we have, I know God's got you."

Lale said writing the song marked "the start of my healing journey" and gave her the confidence to carry her cousins' memory with her as she tried out for the show this year.

Viva Lale singing Beyonce's Ave Maria, a song she performed at her cousins' funeral after they lost their lives in a tragic house fire.

"They passed away two months before auditions started for The Voice and at that time I wasn't ready. But this year I knew I had to do it...they gave me an extra boost."

Dedicating her blind audition performance of Mariah Carey's One Sweet Day to those lost in the house fire tragedy, Lale won a chance on the show singing the Beyonce song she sang at her cousins funeral.

As emotional and nervous as Lale was, she said she felt at peace on the TV stage - even if she didn't turn the coaches' chair.

"As soon as I hit that stage I wanted to cry, tears of happiness that I made it. That was my ultimate goal and I feel in myself that they were with me," she said.

Relatives of The Voice Australia contestant Viva Lale .. Paul Lini and Viva. Picture: Channel 9

Building on her Voice moment, Lale has booked regular Sunday sessions at Brisbane's Southbank and is available for corporate performances, via her agent, Shadow Management.

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