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Daria Jazmin and Darius Scott prepare for their battle round on The Voice. (NBC Photo)

Darius Scott says he had to come out of his “shell” a little to survive the battle round on The Voice.

Singing for Team Pharrell, Darius was pitted against Daria Jazmin, who has performed for years as part of a R&B/pop group called The Jazmin Sisters.

Darius, 23, of Dallas, Texas, and Daria were asked to sing Bill Withers’ “Lean on Me” in a battle we didn’t get to see on TV because it was part of a montage package.

But Darius talked about how it went during a conference call with the media earlier this week.

“While the song really only has three or four chords, it’s how to sing it and share it that me and Daria had the most fun figuring out.

“I think Daria’s a consummate performer,” he added. “I’m pretty shy, so I don’t’ have the same confidence level that Daria has. And that was one of the critiques that you guys didn’t get to see, that Pharrell really wanted me to dig in and connect more to the song.

“For me it wasn’t that I had trouble connecting with the song. It was a little more I was a little shy about it all.”

Finally, Darius said he decided to rely on his experience.

“I’ve been singing that song for so long,” he said, “that I just had to remember that it’s just like any other time I sing a song. And that’s the way I approached it. You hear in the record (that) I kind of sang pretty true to the melody except for toward the end of the song when the band was wrapping up. And I just decided in that moment to have fun with it.”

His strategy paid off. Pharrell chose Darius to advance to the knockout round for Team Pharrell. Daria was eliminated when none of the other coaches stole her for their team.

To learn more about Darius and his pre-Voice gospel album, head here. To learn more about Daria and the pre-Voice music she’s released with her real-life sisters, head here.

For more of the stories behind the battles on The Voice, head here.

Daria Jazmin and Darius Scott await the outcome of their battle round on The Voice. (NBC Photo)

Darius Scott during the battle round on The Voice. (NBC Photo)