The Voice: la plus belle voix

The Voice France
Created by	John de Mol Roel van Velzen
Presented by	Nikos Aliagas Karine Ferri (Season 2 - Backstage) Virginie de Clausade (Season 1 - Backstage)
Judges	Florent Pagny Jenifer Mika (2014-) Zazie (2015-) Louis Bertignac (2012-13) Garou (2012-14, 16-)
Country of origin	France
Original language(s)	French
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	62
Production
Executive producer(s)	Thierry Lachkar John de Mol
Producer(s)	Shine France Talpa
Location(s)	Studio Lendit 3 & 4
Running time	ca. 2 hours
Release
Original network	TF1
Original release	February 25, 2012 (2012-02-25) – present
External links
Website

The Voice: la plus belle voix (French: The Voice: the Most Beautiful Voice) is a reality singing competition on TF1. It is France's version of The Voice format created by John de Mol and launched in the Netherlands as The Voice of Holland. The first episode was aired on February 25, 2012. It is the second time that the format is produced in the French language after The Voice Belgique.

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 auditioning contestant.

The first season was won by Stéphan Rizon, a contestant of the coach Florent Pagny.
The second season was won by Yoann Fréget, a contestant of the coach Garou
The third season was won by Kendji Girac, a contestant of the coach Mika.
The fourth season was won by Lilian Renaud, a contestant of the coach Zazie.

Overview

Coaches and Finalists

•      Winner
•      Runner-up
•      Third place
•      Fourth place

Winners are in bold, finalists in finale listed first, stolen artists are in italicized font, and eliminated artists are in small font.

Format

The series consists of three phases: a blind audition, a battle phase, and live performance shows. Four judges/coaches, all noteworthy recording artists, choose teams of contestants through a blind audition process. Each judge has the length of the auditioner's performance (about one minute) to decide if he or she wants that singer on his or her team; if two or more judges want the same singer (as happens frequently), the singer has the final choice of coach.

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 four individual "battles" 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. In the final phase, the remaining contestants (top 8) compete against each other in live broadcasts. The television audience and the coaches have equal say 50/50 in deciding who moves on to the final 4 phase. With one team member remaining for each coach, the (final 4) contestants compete against each other in the finale with the outcome decided solely by public vote.

Development, production and marketing

In late 2011 French production company Shine France bought the format and the large national television chains, including TF1 and M6, expressed interest. TF1 eventually won the contract and the format was aired in 2012 as a replacement to the long running Star Academy series.^[1]

Ratings

See also

• The Voice (TV series)

References

External links

• The Voice: la plus belle voix Official website

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