From the moment Aret Kapetanovic stepped out on The Voice stage, the audience was already putty in her hands.

With her sultry looks, scarlet lipstick and daring dress, she commanded everybody’s attention – much how her mother Patti Boulaye did in the 1970s.

Aret, who was born Emma Komlosy, performed a sexy, slowed down version of Paloma Faith’s Upside Down but failed to win over the judges who could only hear her and not see her.

But that changed when the Will.I.Am, Jessie J, Tom Jones and Danny O’Donoghue spun their chairs around at the end of her song.

‘You’re a beautiful girl and you should sing beautiful songs,’ mused Tom.

Upon seeing her, Jessie J described her as ‘Jessica Rabbit in real life.’

The Nobody’s Perfect singer said: ‘I genuinely think out of everyone we’ve seen so far, I think you are the prime example of exactly what the show is about.

 

‘I didn’t expect to see you at all, how amazing you look, it didn’t go with what you sang… Can I borrow your dress?’

Aret was the first ever mixed-race winner of Miss Nigeria in 1995, when she stumbled upon the competition while on holiday with her mother, singer Patti Boulay.

 

 

 

Boulay had a successful singing career of her own and these days is a tireless AIDS campaigner.

Along with Aret, she and her husband Stephen Komlosy have one other child, Sebastian.

Today, Patti heads up a charity, Support For Africa, but a few decades ago had her own TV show and starred in West End shows such as Hair.

 

 

WATCH: Patti Boulaye performs Stop It I Like It

 

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