The Voice Kids is a Dutch television program produced by Talpa Productions and is broadcast on RTL 4. It is based on The Voice of Holland. Participation is only open to children between the ages of eight and fourteen.
The first season aired between 27 January and 23 March 2012. It was presented by Martijn Krabbé and Wendy van Dijk. The coaching was done by Angela Groothuizen, Marco Borsato, and Nick & Simon. The winner was Fabiënne Bergmans from Team Angela, marking Groothuizen's first and only win as a coach.
The Blind Auditions 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 ninety seconds) 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.
The Blind Auditions, Part 1 Key
OrderContestantSongCoach's and contestant's choicesMarcoNick & SimonAngela 1Robin, "The Climb" — — — 2Dave, "Geef mij je angst" 3Eline, "Get Here" — — 4Lieke, "Bottles" 5Annelotte, "Skinny Love" 6Rozemarijn, "Mercy" — — — 7Hadjer, "Halo" — — 8Wesley, "You Give Me Something" — — — 9Fabiënne, "The A Team" 10Zendé, "Here I Am"
The Blind Auditions, Part 2 OrderContestantSongCoach's and contestant's choicesMarcoNick & SimonAngela 1Channah, "Mercy" 2Mannus, "Price Tag" — — 3Zoë, "If I Ain't Got You" — 4Eva, "Empire State of Mind" — — — 5Donny, "True Colors" — 6Melissa, "Jar of Hearts" — 7Cheyenne, "Use Somebody" — — — 8Brittany, "Whataya Want from Me" — 9Emanuela, "La solitudine" — — — 10Brett, "Love You More" 11Amy, "Bleeding Love"
The Blind Auditions, Part 3 OrderContestantSongCoach's and contestant's choicesMarcoNick & SimonAngela 1Aisha, "Vlieg met me mee" — 2Phoebe, "Someone Like You" — — — 3Lennart, "The A Team" 4Chaima, "Valerie" — — 5Milo, "No Mercy" — 6Yahya, "Better in Time" — — — 7Caroline, "Use Somebody" — 8Amber, "Sunday Morning" — — — 9Elaine, "Paparazzi" — — 10Bram, "You Give Me Something" 11Romy, "Something in the water" — — 12Aïsha, "Listen"
The Blind Auditions, Part 4 OrderContestantSongCoach's and contestant's choicesMarcoNick & SimonAngela 1Lowieke, "A Night Like This" — 2Sebastiaan, "Pak maar m'n hand" — — — 3Louise, "Foolin" — 4Vajèn, "The Climb" 5Dewi, "Sweet Goodbyes" — — — 6Vinchenzo, "You Give Me Something" — — 7Gabbi, "Bubbly" — — 8Lois, "Underneath Your Clothes" — — 9Suze, "Whataya Want from Me" — — 10Ella, "Lullaby of Birdland" — — — 11Pim, "Love You More" 12Amy, "I Say A Little Prayer" — — 13Rosan, "Sunday Morning" — — 14Daya, "Beautiful" — —
The Blind Auditions, Part 5 OrderContestantSongCoach's and contestant's choicesMarcoNick & SimonAngela 1Maxime, "Valerie" — 2Tim, "Grenade" — — — 3Bente, "Lost" 4Noémi, "Born This Way" 5Jamie, "Take a Bow" — — — 6Maurits, "Use Somebody" 7Jessie, "I'm Yours" — — 8Raffie, "Here Without You" — — — 9Serena, "When You Say Nothing at All" — — 10Maxime, "Price Tag" 11Ruben, "Sterrenstof" 12Shalisa, "Bottles" — — 13Milou, "Nobody's Perfect" —
The Battles In the second stage, called the battle phase, coaches have three 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 individual "battles" into the Sing-Off stage.
Marco BorsatoNick & SimonAngela GroothuizenVocal Coach Yes-R Marcel Fisser Sven Figee Babette Labeij
– Battle Winner – Eliminated
Episode/Order Coach WinnerEliminated Song 1.1Nick & SimonMilouHadjerLois "Bills, Bills, Bills" 1.2DaveRubenSuze "Hou me vast" 1.3BenteChaimaDonny "Somebody that I used to know" 1.4PimMaximeZoë "Don't go breaking my heart" 1.5ChannahDayaRomy "Runaway Baby" 2.1Angela GroothuizenAmyAïshaMannus "Hush hush" 2.2BrettElaineMaxime "Broken Strings" 2.3FabiënneBrittanyRosan "Poker Face" 2.4LiekeAnnelotteJessie "Thinking of You" 2.5VinchenzoLennartLowieke "Paradise" 3.1Marco BorsatoMelissaAmyShalisa "Without You" 3.2BramMauritsMilo "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall" 3.3VajènElineSerena "Landslide" 3.4ZendéAishaGabbi "This Is Me" 3.5LouiseCarolineNoémi "Domino"
The Sing-Off Each coach brought his or her team after the "Battle" back to five acts, but there were only two candidates to the final. All five contestants will battle each other in "The Sing-Off", where they re-sung their audition song. The coaches then selected two of the five contestants to move to the live finals.
– Chosen as Finalist – Eliminated
Sing Off # Coach Contestant Song 1 Nick & SimonBente"Lost" Channah "Mercy" Dave "Geef mij je angst"Milou"Nobody's Perfect"Pim"Love You More" 2 Angela GroothuizenAmy"Bleeding Love"Brett"Love You More" Fabiënne "The A Team" Lieke "Bottles"Vinchenzo"You Give Me Something" 3 Marco BorsatoBram"You Give Me Something"Louise"Foolin" Melissa "Jar of Hearts" Vajèn "The Climb"Zendé"Here I Am"
Live
Teams Winner Runner-up Third place Finalist Team Marco Nick & Simon Angela Vajèn van den Bosch Dave Dekker Fabiënne Bergmans Melissa Meewisse Channah van Wingerden Lieke van 't Veer
Show
Competition Performances
Sequence Coach Finalist Type Song Result1Angela GroothuizenLiekeSolo"Take a Bow"Eliminated2Marco BorsatoMelissa & Vajèn(with Marco Borsato)Trio"Voorbij"3Nick & SimonChannahSolo"Rolling in the Deep"Eliminated4Marco BorsatoVajènSolo"Because of You"Safe5Angela GroothuizenFabiënne & Lieke(with Angela Groothuizen)Trio"Yoü and I"6Nick & SimonDaveSolo"Laat me"Safe7Marco BorsatoMelissaSolo"I will always love you"Eliminated8Nick & SimonChannah & Dave(with Nick & Simon)Quartet"Holiday in Spain"9Angela GroothuizenFabiënneSolo"Something's Got a Hold on Me"Safe
Non-Competition performance Performers Song All 6 Finalists "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)"
Celebrity performance Performer NummerBen Saunders"Heart strings (This is love)"
Results Selecting the three finalists was based on two aspects, voting by the three coaches and televoting by viewers at home. Both the coaches and the public each had up to one-hundred points to give to their favorite finalist.
Finalist Coach Points from coach Points from public Total ResultMelissaMarco Borsato 30 38.4 68.4 EliminatedVajènMarco Borsato 70 61.6 131.6 FinalistChannahNick & Simon 35 36.1 71.1 EliminatedDaveNick & Simon 65 63.9 128.9 FinalistFabiënneAngela Groothuizen 56 74.6 130.6 FinalistLiekeAngela Groothuizen 44 25.4 69.4 Eliminated
Finale Channah, Lieke, and Melissa were immediately eliminated. Then were the finalists Dave, Fabiënne, and Vajèn.
Sequence Finalist Song Result 1 Vajèn "Show Me Heaven" Runner-Up 2 Dave "Toen ik je zag" Third Place 3 Fabiënne "What you're made of" WINNER
Viewing Figures Episode Date Viewers Place Kdh. Madl. Source Blind Audition 1 27 January 2012 2,797,000 1 18.2% 34.8% Topscore The Voice Kids; dramatische val Moordvrouw, Mediacourant, zaterdag 28 januari 2012 Blind Audition 2 3 February 2012 3,053,000 1 19.9% 35.2% The Voice Kids van 2,6 naar 2,9 miljoen kijkers, Mediacourant, zaterdag 4 februari 2012 Blind Audition 3 10 February 2012 2,766,000 1 18.0% 34.2% Moordvrouw populairder dan Flikken Maastricht, Mediacourant, zaterdag 11 februari 2012 Blind Audition 4 17 February 2012 2,855,000 1 18.6% 35.0% Van Nieuwkerk bezorgt College Tour kijkcijferrecord, Mediacourant, zaterdag 18 februari 2012 Blind Audition 5 24 February 2012 2,584,000 1 16.9% 33.3% Minst bekeken The Voice Kids tot nu toe, Mediacourant, zaterdag 25 februari 2012 The Battle 1 2 March 2012 2,688,000 1 17.5% 33.5% Battles The Voice Kids van start met 2,5 miljoen kijkers, Mediacourant, zaterdag 3 maart 2012 The Battle 2 9 March 2012 2,546,000 1 18.6% 32.3% The Voice Kids steevast winnaar vrijdagavond, Mediacourant, zaterdag 10 maart 2012 The Battle 3 16 March 2012 2,504,000 1 16.3% 31.8% Voorlaatste The Voice Kids goed voor 2,3 miljoen kijkers, Mediacourant, zaterdag 17 maart 2012 Finale 23 March 2012 2,786,000 1 18.2% 37.3% The Voice Kids-finale goed voor 2,8 miljoen kijkers, Mediacourant, zaterdag 24 maart 2012
Discography
Albums
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Songs
|align="left"|A-Team||27-01-2012||-|||||| by Fabiënne Bergmans /Nr. 13 in the Single Top 100 |- |align="left"|The climb||17-02-2012||-|||||| by Vajèn van den Bosch /Nr. 10 in the Single Top 100 |- |align="left"|Jar of hearts||03-02-2012||-|||||| by Melissa Meewisse /Nr. 48 in the Single Top 100 |- |align="left"|Geef mij je angst||27-01-2012||-|||||| by Dave Dekker /Nr. 95 in the Single Top 100 |- |align="left"|A moment like this||23-03-2012||-|||||| by Melissa Meewisse /Nr. 75 in the Single Top 100 |- |align="left"|Show me heaven||23-03-2012||-|||||| by Vajèn van den Bosch /Nr. 26 in the Single Top 100 |- |align="left"|Toen ik je zag||23-03-2012||-|||||| by Dave Dekker /Nr. 24 in the Single Top 100 |- |align="left"|What you're made of||23-03-2012||07-04-2012||38||2|| by Fabiënne Bergmans /Nr. 5 in the Single Top 100
Trivia All episodes of The Voice Kids were recorded in studio 1 in Aalsmeer. Early November 2011: the auditions had closed because there were already 17,000 applications. Before the start of The Voice Kids on 25 January 2012, there was a press conference of the coaches. The interviewers were 24 students from different schools, so that a report could be written to their school.Persconferentie speciaal voor schoolkranten, website The Voice Kids
International adaptations
References