Nathan Amzi was recently seen competing on the current series of BBC1’s The Voice. He wowed the Kaiser Chiefs’ Ricky Wilson at his blind audition and went on to compete in the battle rounds, impressing the nation with an epic rendition of ‘The Power Of Love’ alongside Christina Marie, which was broadcast last weekend. Despite losing the battle, the performance has been described as the battle of the night with many bowled over by Nathan’s epic vocal talents.
Nathan was most recently in the original West End production of Rock Of Ages which premiered at the Shaftesbury Theatre before transferring to the Garrick. Prior to Rock Of Ages Nathan performed two seasons at Shakespeare's Globe in The Merry Wives of Windsor including touring to LA, New York and around the UK.
His other theatre credits include: Eddie/Dr Scott in The Rocky Horror Show (West End/Tour), Wolf in Hansel & Gretel (Theatre Royal Stratford), Roy Rustin in Alan Ayckbourn’s A Small Family Business (Watford Palace) and Miss Saigon (UK Tour). Nathan is also a respected producer (Amzi Entertainment), recently producing Scott Alan’s acclaimed concert at The IndigO2.
In part one of my interview with Nathan we discuss the huge response to his appearance on The Voice, the stereotype surrounding musical theatre performers on reality programmes and what was going through his head before, during and after that epic battle…
You have received such an overwhelming response following your time on The Voice, have you had a moment to take it all in yet?
No, it has been absolutely mental! On Saturday night I had something like 700 mentions on Twitter in one go – it crashes your phone [laughs]! Facebook went mental, but the thing that was nice for me was that the theatre audiences, who have stood by me through all the shows I’ve been in, were prolifically Tweeting – even WhatsOnStage said ‘@TheAmzi did the West End proud’, you wrote something and so did @WestEndProducer. It’s hard when you go on a show like The Voice because being in theatre can be a hindrance – people can think things like ‘if he was good in the West End he would still be there’.
