Great Neck Native Wins Spot on 'The Voice'

Jack Gregori, a 37-year old originally hailing from Great Neck, got through Tuesday’s blind audition on NBC’s “The Voice.”

Seconds into Gregori’s rendition of “Ring of Fire,” the tune popularized by Johnny Cash, Adam Levine, a judge on the reality show, selected the contestant.

“I love this guy,” a smiling Levine said.

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Gregori, who now calls Washington, DC, home, said the audition experience validated his musical aspirations.

Gregori had run a 40-employee firm that generated millions of dollars in gross revenues a year, he told Carson Daly, who hosts the reality show. But after the market crash, Gregori found himself near bankruptcy.

“What i realized was that having all that money was not necessarily the key to being happy,” said Gregori, who still works in law, but now devotes most of his time toward building a career in music.

Winning The Voice, he said, would mean saying goodbye to hauling his music equipment from gig to gig.

“Nothing’s better than playing music,” he said.

In addition to Levine, the show’s three judges include Christina Aguilera, Pharrell Williams and Blake Shelton.

Image: Jack Gregori on “The Voice”/YouTube

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