If you caught the premiere of The Voice last week, chances are you were just as moved by Javier Colon’s rendition of Cyndi Lauper’s chart-topping ballad “Time After Time” as we were. The guitar-strumming family man hit up the Today Show this morning to discuss his former record deal and what motivated him to audition for NBC’s new singing competition. Watch below.
Colon, who went simply by his first name when he was previously signed to Capitol Records, released two albums (both of which are on iTunes) — Javier (2003) and Left Of Center (2006).
“I had gotten dropped from my record label,” Colon told Al Roker on Today. “I needed to do something. There was a five-year period where I was struggling, trying to find a new home, a new label and nobody really wanted to take a chance on me.”
Watch Javier discuss why he needed to take another shot at music stardom.
All four coaches — Cee Lo Green, Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton and Adam Levine — turned their chairs around and duked it out over Colon on last Tuesday’s episode of The Voice. In the end, it was Maroon 5 frontman Levine who won out and nabbed the 34-year-old for his team.
Below is his blind audition on the show from last week. Do you think Javier has a chance at winning The Voice?
Oh yeah. I sure do. His was the voice of this show for me :))
I saw the clip of him singing “Time After Time” for The Voice promo and made it a point to watch the show, I love his voice. What’s crazy is that I have his 2003 cd but just realized that he is the same Javier, I really enjoyed that cd!