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The Woods-Fine version of Tedder’s song, Ain’t Easy, had the mentors swooning over the power of Fine’s voice.

“My whole mantra for my entire career, especially at the Big Machine Group, is finding true artists with an individual voice,” said Borchetta in an interview the morning after the show aired. “That’s the drug I’m addicted to. As soon as I hear Jamie sing, I literally forget where I am. It’s like an out-of-body experience.And then I look at two of my trusted colleagues, Ryan and Jennifer, and they’re having the same type of experience. You don’t question that type of thing. We had really strong artists on the show, but this is magical. What Elijah and Jamie do together is the epitome of a duo. They’re the best version of themselves when they are together.”

Fine, who’s 24, is the singer-songwriter with that goosebump-inducing voice, a sound so remarkable it prompted Borchetta describe her as a “street Adele,” while Woods is the 23-year-old musical mastermind who handles the instrumentation, arrangements, production and co-writing.

They’ve been making music together as Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine for almost four years, starting a few days after Woods first heard Fine’s voice on a friend’s smartphone.

“I freaked out,” says Woods of his first impression of Fine’s singing. “I was like, ‘Why don’t I know her, and when can I have her?’ I dragged her into the studio that Saturday and we started writing in a way that I had never written with anyone else. We formed an instant connection, which was really strange for me. There’s usually a boundary between producers and vocalists that sometimes you can’t get through, but with Jamie and I it was completely cohesive.”