The Voice singer Findlay Webb was just three days old when he had open-heart surgery. Born with the rare heart condition tricuspid atresia, Findlay needed to have two more open-heart surgeries as a young child.
Findlay and his twin brother Kyle were very close growing up – and still are. But when it came to sport, Findlay couldn’t play with Kyle and all the other kids because of his heart condition.
“I had very, very limited energy because of my heart,” Findlay explains to TV WEEK. “I always felt just a bit different.”
But while Kyle had sport, Findlay had music.
“Kyle used to play footy a lot as a kid, so I would always attend his games and go to his training,” Findlay remembers. “I obviously just had to sit there and watch. But we made it work out because I would drag him along to any gig that I had. So we were always there for each other, for sure.”
Even as a child, Findlay knew that music was his thing.
“It was always going to be my life. It was nice knowing that that was something that I had that my friends didn’t.”
Now 23, Findlay teaches music in his home town of Bathurst, New South Wales, and regularly plays gigs, including one in front of 15,000 people at the Tamworth Country Music Festival. He’s watched The Voice since he was a kid, and always wanted to go on it, but only got up the courage after seeing some friends audition, including one friend who did well last year, Cait Jamieson.
“I just thought it was awesome that she did it,” he says, “so I figured I’d give that a go as well.”
Findlay says walking out on at stage at the blind auditions, to sing for judges Richard Marx, Melanie C, Ronan Keating and Kate Miller-Heidke, with his family, including Kyle, watching from the sidelines, was “absolutely terrifying”.
“But it is something I’ll never forget,” he adds. “And it was by far the coolest thing I’ve ever done. It was so cool.”
Catch The Voice on Monday and Tuesday at 7.30pm on Channel Seven or on 7plus.
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