Watch 15-year-old former Top Chef Jr. contestant's 'captivating' performance on The Voice

Olivia Eden is trading in her apron for a microphone.

Any longtime fan of The Voice knows that deciding to sing one of the coaches' songs during Blind Auditions is a big risk. Olivia Eden surely knew the risk when she decided to audition for season 24 with Niall Horan's "This Town," but went for it anyway.

Despite a little confusion as to where to stand after her audition, the 15-year-old isn't new to reality TV. Before she started singing at gigs with her dad, she had a passion for cooking — "At seven, I could chop a carrot 12 different ways," she says — a passion that landed her a spot on Top Chef Junior season 2 at just 10 years old (she also competed on Chopped Jr. season 6). On Top Chef Jr., she cooked her way to seventh place out of 24 contestants, but that passion simmered (pun intended!) to make way for music. Having a second successful career at just 15 must be a record or something, but here Olivia is, impressing two superstar coaches with her vocals enough to earn a place on The Voice — one of them is Reba McEntire, and yes, the other is the man behind her song choice, Niall Horan.

Olivia Eden
Olivia Eden on 'The Voice' and 'Top Chef Jr.'. NBC; Universal Kids

Niall says that it's easy "to be hard on people who sing your song because you know it inside out," but that also means he was able to appreciate Olivia's creativity in how she changed it. It's that creativity, along with her "captivating" voice, that left Niall no choice but to push his button. He tells the teen that he was impressed with how she was able to show off so many different sides to her voice within the song "like, more than I do, and I wrote the thing." Reba, too, is "flabbergasted" at her "vocal ease." She thinks Olivia had so much "poise" on stage for someone so young. Even John Legend, who didn't turn his chair, thinks the singer has some real "charm" to her voice that will "serve [her] really well on the show." And Gwen Stefani tells her that with the little yodel she has in her voice, she's "gonna go far."

All of that being said, Olivia doesn't really need to think about who she's going to select as her coach, and all four of them see it coming. Olivia Eden is Team Niall, of course. It's a great example of a happy ending to the "risk-it-all-and-sing-a-coach's-song" story — we love a risk that pays off in the end.

The Voice airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.

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