But will Usher and Shakira love her?

The great granddaughter of a legendary Bermudian piano teacher is to appear on hit US TV talent show The Voice, the Bermuda Sun can reveal.

Sasha Allen has been picked to appear in the televised audition for the show, with the chance to be coached by superstars Shakira or Usher, as well as Maroon 5’s Adam Levine or country star Blake Shelton.

Ms Allen, from New York, is in the first stages of the show, which starts on Monday, and which involves televised auditions in front of the judging panel.

Broadway

But she’s no stranger to the stage — she was part of the cast in the 2010 Broadway revival of the cult musical Hair, which transferred to London’s West End in 2010 for a successful run.

She began her career, just out of high school, appearing in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Whistle Down the Wind, then decided to concentrate on a singing career.

She has worked with Christine Aguilera and English singer-songwriter Leona Lewis, herself catapulted to fame after winning UK talent show The X Factor in 2006.

But Ms Allen has music in the blood — she is the great-granddaughter of Agatha Henderson, a noted piano teacher and performer who died in 1975, and grand-daughter of Betrea Henderson-Jones, who left the island in the 1960s to study music at the New York College of Music, now part of New York University, and eventually settled in the city.

And she has paid tribute to her Bermudian roots in previous interviews — although she is not allowed to speak to the media in advance of the opening rounds of The Voice.

Ms Henderson-Jones married an American professional drummer, adding even more to Ms Allen’s musical ancestry.

Ms Henderson was taught in New York by Dr Frank Damrosch, who also founded the city’s world-renowned performing arts  centre, the Julliard School.

The NBC version of The Voice is modelled on the lines of the European original, created by production firm Endemol, which launched the Big Brother franchise.

The winner of the show gets a recording contract and the chance to make it big in the music world.