Monday night at Queanbeyan’s Tourist Hotel was rowdy, with 60 cheering “Quangers” – including the Mayor and Deputy Mayor – watching local singer Jerikye Williams audition on The Voice.

It was a proud hometown watch party for the Queanbeyan High School graduate, who strutted his stuff on national TV singing ‘Johnny B. Goode’ by Chuck Berry.

His “blind audition” turned two chairs.

Jerikye did Queanbeyan proud (2620!), wearing a custom-made multicoloured suit, slick ‘50s hairdo and grabbing the attention of celebrity judges Ronan Keating and Kate Miller-Heidke.

The quietly spoken 24-year-old also wore a guitar strap decorated with Indigenous art to reflect his Wiradjuri heritage.

You may have seen Jerikye around town because he sports a distinctive Elvis quiff hairdo, and DJs at Civic’s 88mph bar (plus the occasional Elvis tribute act).

It’s safe to say that performing on national telly and doing an impromptu jam with megastar Richard Marx was a career highlight.

“I grew up with all the ‘80s stuff and ‘90s and as a DJ I played [Richard Marx’s] music all the time,” Jerikye said.

“Ronan Keating was on stage too, but he didn’t know the words but that was okay.”

In the wings stood his proud mum and uncle, who Jerikkye said “were more excited than I was at the end of it”.

There were no nerves on the night, despite the live 400-strong studio audience and a national TV audience of 1.65 million.

“All I know is that I didn’t have any nerves on stage, but I had a lot of nerves waiting to go on stage,” he said. “What was making me more nervous was just the waiting and the anticipation to get on stage and rock out. Once I did get on stage, I was totally fine. “

Shout out to Jerikye’s high school music teacher, Brent Budden, and local government councillor, Bill Waterhouse, a musician from Majors Creek.

“Bill Waterhouse and I clicked just like that,” he said. “He loves all the music that I do and I kind of credit him a little bit for my first live performance.”

Jerikye is hard to miss with his signature 1950s Elvis-like pompadour.

“So as far as the hair goes, regardless if I’m doing Elvis or not, that’s how I do it all the time,” he said. “Even doing shows with my band, we don’t particularly do a lot of Elvis songs but I’m definitely a ‘50s kid at heart.”

Filming of The Voice has already wrapped and the next round is the knockouts – but Jerikye is sworn to secrecy.

“AII I can honestly say it’s probably one of the best things I’ve done and I’ve made a lot of good friends out of it,” he said.

“The people that have been on the show were just awesome to be around. Producers were awesome. Coaches were awesome. It was just one of the most welcoming, grooviest, coolest experiences.”

The Voice Australia airs on Channel 7 at 7:30pm on Monday and Tuesday nights.