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15-year-old ‘X Factor’ contestant nails Christina Aguilera’s most difficult song

Whoa.

 

Audra Schroeder

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Posted on Oct 17, 2016   Updated on May 25, 2021, 7:07 pm CDT

If you’re going to do a Christina Aguilera song on The X Factor, you better have the peaks and valleys down. Fifteen-year-old Natalie Ong delivered

The X Factor Australia contestant auditioned with Aguilera’s “The Voice Within,” a song that’s been covered many times, though not always well. 

The judges, which included Adam Lambert and Iggy Azalea, were floored; Lambert noted the song’s difficulty and said she “nailed like 99.9 percent of it,” but that she has to work to make it her own. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMXnRWTOcWo

H/T Mashable

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*First Published: Oct 17, 2016, 12:03 pm CDT