He found his biological family thanks to “The Voice”

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Friday, 9 march 2018 21:32

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Friday, 9 march 2018 21:38

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Michael Marois has perhaps not crossed the stage of the hearings to the blind during his “The Voice”, but it is yet out the winner of the experience finding his biological family through the program.

Adopted at the age of eight months by Quebecers, the young man is entrusted to Denis Lévesque about the reunion unexpected.

“It is unsettling. It’s a lot of emotions at the same time,” he explained.

It is the ex-wife of Juan Antonio Mendoza, the uncle’s biological Michael and his twin sister, who has had a genuine enlightenment by watching the story detailing the childhood of the young man during the program broadcast on TVA.

“She called me and she said to me ‘Tony, your twins are passed to The Voice,” says Mr. Mendoza.

“Mononcle Tony” has known Michael for the childhood, but was lost sight of around the age of 15 years due to a combination of circumstances : the loss of an address book, Facebook that did not exist, or even a confusion as to given names and family names of the loved ones of Michael.

“It made me something big […] I shook my uncle and I told him ‘we got lost once, but we don’t lose twice'”, says Michael about this emotional reunion.

“All the times I thought I had been forgotten, or all the times where I wondered if they still believed in me […] It was reciprocal,” says the young man, big smile.

His father is still alive
Thanks to social media, the adoptive family and biological Michael therefore took contact to reconstruct his family tree, which has been adopted in Cabarete, in the dominican Republic.

Through the process, he even found that he had a brother living in New Jersey and a half-sister.

He even learned that his father was still alive. Michael now hopes to meet with him.

“The first thing I’m going to say is ‘thank you'”, he explains

“I don’t want to force a relationship”

“This is my blood, but it remains unknown. I don’t want to force a relationship, but I’m going to make the effort”, says Michael about this possible reunion.

According to him, his adoptive family has responded well to the situation.

“She is so happy we found it,” says Michael about his adoptive mother, he describes as a reincarnation of Mother Teresa.

“I am Québécois pure laine, but there were missing pieces to the puzzle,” he concludes.

Michael Marois now hopes that her story will encourage adopted children to welcome the opportunities to reconnect with this part of themselves…if they feel ready for it of course.