Music featured throughout Joy's school life through plays, assemblies local concerts, including in
Rochester Cathedral, singing at church at taking part in local talent competitions. She was a contestant in a "Star4Medway", a local talent competition promoted by the
Mayor of Medway. This led to the opportunity for Joy to sing one of her own songs opening on the main stage at the
Kent Music Festival at
Port Lympne in 2005, where acts included
Girls Aloud and
Lemar. Before starting out as a session singer, Joy performed as a member of the
ACM Gospel Choir in 2006 at the
Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM), a music academy located in
Guildford. Joy, Mark De-Lisser and other ACM students featured on the
BBC's talent-themed television show
Last Choir Standing in 2008. The ACM Gospel Choir reached the finals of the show. An article for Kentonline reported that Kirsten had "shared a stage with
Gary Barlow, supported
Girls Aloud and has sung in front of the Queen". She has also worked with
Producers. She was a member of the United Kingdom national jury in the
Eurovision Song Contest 2012. In 2012, the UK version of
The Voice was broadcast on
BBC television and Joy took part as a solo contestant. She succeeded in the 'blind audition' round in attracting the attention of
Jessie J and joined Jessie's team to compete against other teams for judges
Tom Jones,
Will.i.am and
Danny O'Donoghue. At the 'battle round' stages, Joy was eliminated in favour of contestant Toni Warne.
The Voice UK performances and results Music releases Kirsten released her debut EP
Written in the Sky in February 2013. It was produced by Ben Collier and Nari Man.
EP 'Written in the Sky', 2013 She attempted but failed to
represent Switzerland at the
Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "One Life". On 25 November 2014, it was revealed that Joy was not one of the nine acts selected by SRF to move on to the live auditions and was eliminated. ==Clean Bandit==