Vocea României

Vocea României
Genre	Talent show
Created by	John de Mol Roel van Velzen
Directed by	Peter Majesky Melanie Triebel[1] Bogdan Măciucă Loredana Petcu Greta Dan Eugen Dinu Daniel Eftimie Lavinia Boureci Daniel Iancu
Presented by	Pavel Bartoș Lili Sandu (backstage, 6-) Roxana Ionescu (1) Nicoleta Luciu (2-3) Vlad Roșca (backstage, 1-3) Oana Tache (backstage, 4-5)
Judges	Tudor Chirilă(4-) Loredana Smiley Marius Moga Horia Brenciu (1-3)
Country of origin	Romania
Original language(s)	Romanian
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	87
Production
Executive producer(s)	Robert Lionte
Producer(s)	Mona Segall
Location(s)	Studiourile Media Pro, Buftea (1-4) Studiourile Kentauros, Ștefăneștii de Jos (5-)
Release
Original network	Pro TV
Picture format	16:9
Original release	September 27, 2011 (2011-09-27) – present
External links
Website

Vocea României (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈvot͡ʃe̯a romɨˈni.ej]; English: The Voice of Romania) is a Romanian reality singing competition broadcast on PRO TV. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, the concept of the series is to find new singing talent contested by aspiring singers, age 16 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by television viewers voting by telephone and he is entitled to a €100.000 prize and a record deal with Universal Records for winning the competition. There have been five winners of the show to date: Ștefan Stan, Julie Mayaya, Mihai Chițu, Tiberiu Albu and Cristina Bălan

The Voice of Romania began airing on September 27, 2011, as a spring TV season program. The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances. Each coach guides their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. The original coaching panel consisted of Smiley, Horia Brenciu, Loredana Groza and Marius Moga. In season four, Brenciu was replaced with Vama lead member Tudor Chirilă.

Format

One of the important premises of the show is the quality of the singing talent. Four coaches, themselves popular performing artists, train the talents in their group and occasionally perform with them. Talents are selected in blind auditions, where the coaches cannot see, but only hear the auditioner.

The series consists of four phases:

• Blind audition
• Battle round
• Knockout stage
• Live performance shows

Blind audition

Four judges/coaches, all famous musicians, will choose teams of 12, 14 or 16 contestants each through a four-episode-long blind audition process. Each judge has the length of the auditionee's performance to decide if he or she wants that singer on his or her team; if two or more judges want the same singer then the singer gets to choose which coach they want to work with.

Battle round

Each team of singers is mentored and developed by its respective coach. In the second stage, called the battle phase, coaches have two of their team members battle against each other directly by singing the same song together, with the coach choosing which team member to advance from each of six individual "battles". In the first three seasons, at the end of the battle phase, there is a sing-off between two contestants of each coach, singing their audition songs. The coach chooses which one of them will join the other artists into the first live round. Within that first live round, the surviving acts from each team again compete head-to-head, with a combination of public and jury vote deciding who advances onto the next round. A new element was added in season three; coaches were given two "steals", allowing each coach to select two individuals who were eliminated during a battle round by another coach.

Knockout stage

The third stage of the competition is the 'Knockout stage'. It was first introduced in the sixth series (2016). The four coaches will enter this stage with nine team members each; eight winners of the battle phase, and two stolen members. Artists perform a 'killer song' of their choosing and the coaches each pick three members of their team to go through to the live shows, creating a final 12 for the public vote.

Live performance shows

The final stage, 'Live shows', is where the artists perform in front of the coaches and an audience, broadcast live. Each coach will have four artists in their team to begin with and the artists will go head-to-head in the competition to win the public votes. These will determine which artist advances to the final eight. The remaining three artists' future in the show will be determined by the coaches, choosing who will progress.

The final eight artists will compete in a live broadcast. However, the coaches will have a 50/50 say with the audience and the public in deciding which artists move on to the 'final four' phase. In the latter, each coach will have one member who will continue. In season four, the proportion was changed to 40/60. Season five changed the system completely and introduced "crossed duels": each of the eight contestants battles one from another team. The winner qualifies for the final. This opens the possibility of coaches ending up with 0, 1 or 2 contestants in the final.

The final (the winner round) will be decided upon by the public vote.

Host and Coaches

Host

Pavel Bartoș has hosted the series since the inaugural season.^[2] Roxana Ionescu^[3] was co-host in season one but she was replaced by singer and actress Nicoleta Luciu.^[4][5] Vlad Roșca serve as the original "backstage, online and social media correspondent".^[6] In seasons four and five, Roșca was replaced by Oana Tache.^[7] Tache was replaced by Lili Sandu, starting with season six.^[8]

Judges

In August 2011 pop singer and actress Loredana, R'n'B musician and composer Marius Moga, singer and TV host Horia Brenciu and former Simplu member Smiley were confirmed coaches for the Voice of Romania. In season four, Brenciu was replaced with Vama lead member, Tudor Chirilă.^[9]

Timeline of coaches

Coach	Seasons
	1	2	3	4	5	6
Horia Brenciu
Loredana Groza
Marius Moga
Smiley
Tudor Chirilă
Hosts
Pavel Bartoș
Roxana Ionescu
Nicoleta Luciu
Vlad Roșca
Oana Tache

Series overview

Color key

Season	Premiere	Finale	Winner	Runner-up	Third Place	Fourth Place	Winning coach	Presenter	Coaches (order) [10][11]
									1	2	3	4
One	September 27, 2011	December 26, 2011	Ștefan Stan	Dragoș Chircu	Iuliana Pușchilă	Cristian Sanda	Smiley	Pavel Bartoș (main) Roxana Ionescu (co-host) Vlad Roșca (backstage)	Horia	Loredana	Smiley	Moga
Two	September 25, 2012	December 26, 2012	Julie Mayaya	Imre Vízi	Cristi Nistor	Tibi Scobiola	Horia Brenciu	Pavel Bartoș (main) Nicoleta Luciu (co-host) Vlad Roșca (backstage)
Three	September 28, 2013	December 26, 2013	Mihai Chițu	Sânziana Niculae	Adrian Nour	Marius Marin
Four	September 16, 2014	December 19, 2014	Tiberiu Albu	Anda Dimitriu	Maria Hojda	Aliona Munteanu	Tudor Chirilă	Pavel Bartoș (main) Oana Tache (backstage)	Tudor
Five	September 18, 2015	December 18, 2015	Cristina Bălan	Tomi Weissbuch	Tobi Ibitoye	Michel Kotcha
Six	September 9, 2016	2016

Season synopses

Names in bold type indicate the winner of the season.

Season 1

The first season of The Voice of Romania premiered on September 27, 2011.^[12] and concluded on 26 December. The Judges were pop singer and actress Loredana Groza, R'n'B musician and composer Marius Moga, singer and TV host Horia Brenciu and former Simplu member Smiley. Pavel Bartoș with Roxana Ionescu and Vlad Roșca respectively appeared as the hosts and social media correspondent. Contestant auditions were held in Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Brașov and Bucharest during April and May.

Each coach was allowed to advance five contestants to the live shows:

Four contestants were advanced to the final round. Stan was announced as the winner of the season, while Chircu was declared the runner-up. Third and fourth places were a draw between Pușchilă and Sanda. Stan won by 37,67% of the votes.

Season 2

The Voice of Romania returned to Pro TV for a second season which began on September 25, 2012. All four coaches are returning for season two, while Co-presenter Roxana Ionescu was replaced with singer and actress Nicoleta Luciu.^[13] The second season ended on December 26, 2011. Contestant auditions were held in Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Brașov and Bucharest during 4–29 June.

Each coach was allowed to advance six contestants to the live shows:

Four contestants were advanced to the final round. Mayaya was announced as the winner of the season, while Vízi, Nistor, and Scobiola placed second, third, and fourth, respectively.^[14]

Season 3

The third season of Vocea României premiered on September 28, 2013,^[15] and concluded on December 26. All personnel returned from the previous season. A new element was added in season three; coaches were given two "steals", allowing each coach to select two individuals who were eliminated during a battle round by another coach. Contestant auditions were held in Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Brașov and Bucharest during April and May.

Each coach was allowed to advance eight contestants to the live shows:

Four contestants were advanced to the final round. Chițu was announced as the winner of the season, while Niculae, Nour, and Marin placed second, third, and fourth, respectively.

Season 4

The fourth season of Vocea României premiered on September 16, 2014, and concluded on December 19. In this season, Brenciu was replaced with Vama lead member, Tudor Chirilă and Roșca was replaced by Oana Tache. Contestant auditions were held in Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Brașov and Bucharest during June and July.

Each coach was allowed to advance eight contestants to the live shows:

Four contestants were advanced to the final round. Albu was announced as the winner of the season, while Dimitriu, Hojda, and Moon placed second, third, and fourth, respectively.

Season 5

The fifth season of Vocea României premiered on September 18, 2015. All personnel returned from the previous season. Contestant auditions were held in Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Brașov and Bucharest during May and June.

Each coach was allowed to advance eight contestants to the live shows:

The season finale aired on December 18, 2015. Team Tudor and Team Moga had one finalist each, while Team Smiley had two. Both semi-finalists in Team Loredana had been eliminated. Cristina Bălan, best known as the lead vocalist of the bands Impact and ABCD and mentored by Tudor Chirilă, was declared winner of the season. It was Chirilă's second consecutive victory as a coach.

Season 6

The sixth season of Vocea României premiered on September 9, 2016. All personnel returned from the previous season. Contestant auditions were held in Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Brașov and Bucharest during March and April.

Each coach was allowed to advance three contestants to the live shows:

Ratings

Season 3 premiered on Tuesday September 28, 2013 scoring 2.182 million viewers.

Series	Episodes	Series premiere	Series premiere viewing figures	Series finale	Series finale viewing figures
1	15	September 27, 2011	1.07	December 26, 2011	1.48[16][17]
2	15	September 25, 2012	1.70 [18]	December 26, 2012	1.83 [19]
3	14	September 28, 2013	2.18[20]	December 26, 2013	1.79[21]
4	15	September 16, 2014	1.91[22]	December 19, 2014	1,66[23]
5	15	September 18, 2015	1.57[24]	December 18, 2015	1.53[25]
6		September 9, 2016	1.60[26]

Music

The Voice of Romania Album

Vocea României
Compilation album by The Voice of Romania All Stars
Released	000000002014-12-18-0000December 18, 2014
Genre	fado hip hop jazz pop R&B rock soul
Language	english italian portuguese romanian
Label	Universal Music România

The Voice of Romania album is the first compilation album by the finalists from the first three seasons. It was released digitally in December 18, 2014.^[27]

No.	Title	Contestant	Artist
01.	"În lipsa mea"	Liviu Teodorescu	Smiley și Uzzi
02.	"Jump"	Silviu Pașca	Kris Kross
03.	"Ride It"	Muneer al-Obeidli	Jay Sean
04.	"Something's Got a Hold on Me"	Julie Mayaya	Etta James
05.	"Somewhere Over the Rainbow"	Imre Vízi	Judy Garland Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
06.	"Caruso"	Mihai Chițu	Lucio Dalla
07.	"I Want to Know What Love Is"	Anthony Icuagu	Foreigner
08.	"Kiss from a Rose"	Sebastian Muntean	Seal
09.	"Oameni"	Cristian Sanda	Aurelian Andreescu
10.	"Are You Gonna Be My Girl"	Loredana Căvășdan	Jet
11.	"Crazy"	Robert Patai	Gnarls Barkley
12.	"I Want to Break Free"	Cătălin Dobre	Queen
13.	"Killing Me Softly"	Sânziana Niculae	Lori Lieberman Fugees
14.	"Loucura"	Adrian Nour	Mariza
15.	"Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"	Angelo Simonică	The Temptations
16.	"I'm like a Bird"	Oana Brutaru	Nelly Furtado
17.	"Unchained Melody"	Dragoș Chircu	Todd Duncan The Righteous Brothers
18.	"Spune-mi"	Iuliana Pușchilă	Monica Anghel
19.	"Rhythm of My Heart"	Marius Marin	Rod Stewart
20.	"Valerie"	Aminda	The Zutons Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse
21.	"Cerul"	David Bryan	Proconsul

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result	Source
2011	TVmania Awards	Best Talent Show	Vocea României	Won	[28]
2012	TVmania Awards	Best Talent Show	Vocea României	Won	[29]
2013	TVmania Awards	Best Talent Show	Vocea României	Won	[30]
2014	TVmania Awards	Best Talent Show	Vocea României	Won	[31]
2016	TVmania Awards	Best Talent Show	Vocea României	Won	[32]

See also

• The Voice (TV series)
• List of Romanian television series

References

External links

• Official website