MICHELLE CHAMUEL
Michelle Chamuel had enjoyed success as a singer in the rock group Ella Riot, and as the artist known as The Reverb Junkie, but she shot to a whole different level of fame on season four of The Voice, with impressive covers of Katy Perry´s “I Kissed a Girl” and Pink´s “Raise Your Glass.” And though she didn´t win the top spot, she did come in second, was praised by Taylor Swift and found a fantastic mentor in Usher. “I went to the show looking for a teacher and it turned out Usher was looking for a student,” she says. “I was craving the challenges and rewards of being part of a top musical community and I found that on The Voice.” In February, she released the album Face the Fire, featuring themes of “universal love-love lost and love found” and “authenticity, coming to terms with being yourself, facing reality and being as true to yourself as possible,” as she explained to Billboard. Chamuel says she loves music because it is “one of the great unifiers. You can have old people, gay people, old gay people, differently abled people, people of all colors and sizes and backgrounds, and they can all be connected through music. … I´ve been drawn to it (like a panda to bamboo) since before I could speak.”
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