It is of a folk style and is sung at a very high pitch accompanied by traditional Irish percussion, woodwind and string instruments.

[3] The Eurovision Song Contest 1996 featured a pre-qualifying round in which audio tapes of each nation's entrant were sent to juries in all of the other twenty-nine nations competing: from these tapes, each jury deemed ten songs worthy of competing in the contest and the resultant tally allowed only twenty-two of the prospective entrants to advance to the Eurovision final to compete with the Norwegian entrant already pre-selected: "I evighet" by Elisabeth Andreassen had already qualified for the final after Norway won the previous contest with "Nocturne" by Secret Garden.

Quinn performed "The Voice" seventeenth on the evening, following Belgium's "Liefde is een kaartspel" by Lisa del Bo and preceding Finland's "Niin kaunis on taivas" by Jasmine.

"The Voice" was awarded the maximum douze points by seven countries: Turkey, Switzerland, Estonia, Slovenia, Netherlands, Poland and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

On 4 May 1996, fourteen days before the Eurovision Song Contest, Mark Roland from Melody Maker reviewed the single, writing, "They've gone for the authentic Irish folky sound with fiddles, whistles and bodhrans, she has a voice of spun glass and I'm sure she'll win".