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Liz Davis is from Madison, Mississippi. She has a touch of southern twang when she talks.

She says she likes fishing. She likes riding four-wheelers for no reason.

“I might be a fireball,” the 25-year-old says.

On The Voice, you know what’s coming. A female country artist who’s likely to land on Team Blake.

Liz says she’s been trying to make it in country music in Nashville, but it’s very competitive. She’s wound up waiting tables and working retail.

But she’s also determined.

“I hope there’s something greater out there, and this is it,” she tells The Voice. “I don’t want to go back to Nashville having accomplished nothing on that stage.”

So she channels her inner fireball and launches into a sassy rendition of “Here for the Party.”

Her vocals and her take-no-prisoners approach get Christina and Adam to spin around in a heartbeat. But what about Blake?

It isn’t until the last second that his spins his chair, yet he winds up with Liz on his team.

What the show didn’t show: In 2009, Liz entered and won the MTV televised singing competition P Diddy Starmaker and became the first country artist signed to his Bad Boy Records. Liz later posted original songs named “Shack” and “Make Me a Liar” on her MySpace page. But the union never produced an album, and the songs are now gone. At one point, Liz tweeted about a deal with a country label. Again, no album. Her song choices on Starmaker included “Gunpowder and Lead” (made famous by Blake’s wife, Miranda Lambert), Madonna’s “Material Girl,” Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and “Here for the Party” … yep, the same tune she used for her Voice audition. If you check out video of some of those performances on YouTube, it’s pretty apparent why she did well. She shows tons of stage presence — love the over-the-shoulder glance at the end of “Before He Cheats” — and “Gunpowder and Lead” is a particularly fiery performance. Oh, and if the host in those videos looks familiar … sure enough, it’s former Idol contestant Kimberly Caldwell.

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Liz Davis singing “Here for the Party” on P Diddy Starmaker