Alfie Arcuri
Quick Facts
Biography
Alfie Arcuri is an Australian singer-songwriter best known for winning the fifth series of The Voice Australia in 2016. He signed with Universal Music Australia. His debut studio album Zenith was released in July 2016 and peaked at number 5 on the ARIA Charts.
Early life
Arcuri was born to an Italian family and grew up in Camden, New South Wales. He is a qualified architect and told his family he was gay in 2013, when he was 24 years old.
Career
2016: The Voice and Zenith
In 2016 Arcuri took part in the fifth season of The Voice Australia, where he joined Delta Goodrem's team, and was the first auditionee. He made it through to the Grand Finale and on the 10th of July, he was announced as the winner.
denotes winner.
The Voice performances and results (2016) | |||
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Episode | Song | Result | |
Audition | "Scars" | Through to Battle rounds | |
Battle Rounds | "Drag Me Down" | Through to Super Battle rounds | |
Super Battle rounds | "Red" | Through to live shows | |
Live show 1 | "Pillowtalk" | Saved by public | |
Live show 2 | "Lay Me Down" | Saved by public | |
Live show 3 | "I Can't Make You Love Me" | Saved by public | |
Semi Final | "All of Me" | Saved | |
Grand Final | "Catapult" | Winner | |
"Beneath Your Beautiful" (with Delta Goodrem) | |||
"Cruel" |
Arcuri released his debut single "Cruel" immediately after. The song peaked at number 89 selling 1, 458 in its first week, becoming the show's worst perform winners single to date. Arcuri's debut album Zenith was released on 29 July 2016 and peaked at number 5 on the ARIA Charts. In November, Arcuri talked about "Cruel" and its lack of success to River 949: “I love the song and it sounds so good acoustically. But I sort of had a feeling it wasn't going to do too well because I guess people on the show connected with me for certain songs and I was a ballad guy, and then I come out with this song which is a bit different. People would have connected more with a ballad but that's what I'm doing now anyway, I'm coming out with that. And that was the right way it was meant to happen.” Arcuri commenced his first national tour across Australia in November 2016.
In May 2017, Arcuri released "If They Only Knew". It's a song Arcuri co-wrote saying “When you feel heartbreak for the very first time, it’s the most extreme emotion, other than being in love. I can’t explain how it makes me feel that I’ve written it and hopefully people will connect to it the way I have.”
Discography
Studio albums
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications |
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AUS | |||
Zenith |
| 5 |
Singles
Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
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AUS | |||||
"Cruel" | 2016 | 89 | Zenith | ||
"If They Only Knew" | 2017 | 96 | TBA | ||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. |