The Voice – Norges beste stemme

The Voice – Norges beste stemme
Created by John de Mol
Roel van Velzen
Presented by Øyvind Mund
Maria Bodøgaard (V-Reporter)
Judges Yosef Wolde-Mariam (1, 3–)
Lene Marlin (4–)
Martin Danielle (4–)
Morten Harket (4–)
Former coaches
Sondre Lerche (1–3)
Hanne Sørvaag (1, 3)
Espen Lind (2–3)
Lene Nystrøm (2)
Tommy Tee (2)
Magne Furuholmen (1)
Country of origin Norway
Original language(s) Norwegian
No. of series 4
No. of episodes 64
Production
Producer(s) Talpa Media Group
Release
Original network TV2
Original release January 27, 2012 (2012-01-27) – present
External links
Website

The Voice – Norges beste stemme (Norwegian for The Voice – Norway's best Voice) is a Norwegian reality singing competition and local version of The Voice first broadcast as The Voice of Holland. It started on 27 January 2012 and the final aired on 25 May 2012 on TV2.

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. Martin Halla from "Team Magne" mentored by Magne Furuholmen won the competition.

Overview

Coaches and finalists

     Winning coach/contestant. Winners are in bold, eliminated contestants in small font.
     Runner-up coach/contestant. Final contestant first listed.
     2nd runner-up coach/contestant. Final contestant first listed.
Season Judges/coaches
Sondre Lerche Hanne Sørvaag Yosef Wolde-Mariam Magne Furuholmen
1
  • - Hege Øversveen
  • - Frid Nordheim
  • - Ole-Alexander Mæland
  • - Suzana Costa Johansen
  • - Elisabeth Kristensen
  • - Odd Einar Nordheim
  • - Silje Løvaas
  • - Omar Mohamed Ahmed
  • - Elisabeth Vatndal
  • - Leif Anders Wentzel
2 Sondre Lerche Tommy Tee Lene Nystrøm Espen Lind
3 Sondre Lerche Hanne Sørvaag Yosef Wolde-Mariam Espen Lind
4 Morten Harket Lene Marlin Yosef Wolde-Mariam Martin Danielle

Season summary

Colour key

Season Premiere Finale Winner Runner-up Other finalists Winning coach Presenter Coaches (order)
1 2 3 4
1 January 27, 2012 May 25, 2012 Martin Halla Aleksander W. Åsgården Magne Furuholmen Øyvind Mund Maria Bodøgaard Sondre Hanne Yosef Magne
Hege Øversveen
Odd Nordheim
2 August 30, 2013 December 13, 2013 Knut Marius Adrian Jørgensen Lene Nystrøm Tommy Lene Espen
Pål Rake
Tor Kvammen
3 March 6, 2015 June 5, 2015 Yvonne Nordvik Øyvind Boye Filip Bernard Espen Lind Espen Yosef Hanne Sondre
Nicoline Berg
4 August 21, 2017 December 9, 2017 Thomas Løseth Andrea Santiago Agnes Stock Lene Marlin Yosef Lene Martin Morten
Sebastian James

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.

Season 1 (2012)

The coaches for the debut seasons are singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche, pop star Hanne Sørvaag, Madcon member Yosef Wolde-Mariam and former A-ha member Magne Furuholmen. Øyvind Mund is hosting the programme while Maria Bodøgaard shares hosting duties as the social media correspondent.

Season 2 (2012)

Due to the success of the inaugural season, a second season was announced for 2013. Sondre Lerche is the only judge returning from the inaugural 2012. All other three judges from that season, namely Hanne Sørvaag, Yosef Wolde-Mariam and Magne Furuholmen are being replaced. The three new mentors, are singer and songwriter Espen Lind, singer and former Aqua member Lene Nystrøm and rapper and music producer Tommy Tee.

See also

References

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