The Voice of Bulgaria

The Voice of Bulgaria
Genre	Reality television
Created by	John de Mol Roel van Velzen
Presented by	Marten Roberto (1–3) Victoria Terziyska (1, 3) Yana Marinova (2) Pavell (4–) Venci Venc' (4–)
Judges	Mariana Popova (1) Kiril Marichkov (1) Ivana (1) Miroslav Kostadinov (1–3) Preslava (2) Yordan Karadjov (2) Victoria Terziyska (2) Atanas Penev (3) Desi Slava (3) Orlin Goranov (3) Kamelia (4–) Ivan Lechev (4–) Poli Genova (4–) Vladimir Ampov (4–)
Country of origin	Bulgaria
Original language(s)	Bulgarian
No. of series	5
No. of episodes	124
Production
Producer(s)	Talpa Media Group
Production location(s)	Seven-Eight Productions (1-3) MediaPro Entertainment (2-3) bTV Studio (4-)
Release
Original network	bTV
Picture format	16:9
Original release	July 18, 2011 – present
External links
Website

The Voice of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Гласът на България, transcribed as Glasat na Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian reality singing competition and local version of The Voice of Holland. Its first season was held in the summer of 2011 on bTV. 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.

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 four acts from each team again compete head-to-head, with public votes determining one of two acts from each team that will advance to the final eight, while the coach chooses which of the remaining three acts comprises the other performer remaining on the team.

In the final phase, the remaining contestants (Final 24) 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.

Coaches

Series overview

Colour key

See also

• The Voice (TV series)

References

External links

• Glasat na Bulgaria Official website