The first season of the Greek Cypriot reality talent show The Voice of Greece premiered on January 10, 2014, on ANT1. Based on the reality singing competition The Voice of Holland, the series was created by Dutch television producer John de Mol. It is part of an international series.
The show is hosted by Giorgos Liagkas with Themis Georgantas serving as the backstage and social networking corresponding. The lead vocalist of the band Stavento, Michalis Kouinelis, Despina Vandi, Antonis Remos and Melina Aslanidou are the coaches of the season. The winner receives a record deal with Minos EMI.
Auditions, coaches and hosts The first trailer for the season came out on September 13, 2013, which officially opened the submissions for the auditions. The auditions started on September 30, 2013, and were held in Greece and Cyprus.
Several artists were rumored to be part of the judging panel once ANT1 announced the show. Anna Vissi and Vandi were the first to be rumored as they are two of the biggest singers in both Cyprus and Greece. After being a judge on Dancing on Ice, Elena Paparizou was in the running for the judging panel. On the running were also Marinella, Remos and Nikos Karvelas. Remos and Vandi were the first to be confirmed as coaches followed by Kouinelis from Stavento and Aslanidou. Teasers from each coach talking about the show were shown on January 5, 2014, just five days before the premiere.
Natalia Germanou was unofficially confirmed to be the host of the show. However, it was later revealed that she had a proposition for the judging panel which was later turned down by the broadcaster after it was decided that the judges will be only professional singers. A few days after the unofficial confirmation, Sakis Rouvas, who also hosted the Greek version of The X Factor, was rumored to be the host of the show. On December 5, 2013, the broadcaster revealed that Liagkas will be hosting the show with Georgantas being the V reporter.
Promotion The first trailer premiered in September 2013 announcing the season and explaining how to participate. Four short trailers were broadcast in early-December, teasing the show and its format. A few weeks before the premiere of the season, a trailer which featured the coaches going to the stage from backstage and a singer auditioning. All the four coaches hit their buttons, with Vandi and Remos being the first two followed by Kouinellis and Aslanidou the same time. The premiere date was announced on the second version of the same changed trailer. Along with that trailer four short trailers were shown with each coach talking about the show and their expectations.
The trailer for the battles was shown when the blind auditions where over, on February 24, 2014. It featured two singers going to the stage–ring, shooting each other with their microphones.
Teams Each coach of the season had, after the blind auditions, sixteen acts in his team. During the battles each coach lost half of his acts. During the live shows, the coaches were losing two (first and second live) or one act (third to fifth live) until the final live where each coach had one act. Color key
Coaches Top 64 artists Michalis Kouinelis Areti Kosmidou Yuri Melikov Panayiotis Vintzilaios Tasos Panagiotopoulos Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou Steven Anderito Aris Kambanos Violeta Christina Dagkalou Constantina Christopoulou Iordanis Karakasidis Panayiotis Koufogiannis Panos Patagiannis Constantina Zerva Antigoni Tsiplakidi Christina Miliou Elias Vlachakis Despina Vandi Maria Elena Kiriakou Katerina Lioliou Stelios Mayalios Dimitris Fournarakis Elpida Papakosma Nikos Mpaliakos Vasilis Axiotis Eleni Geragidi Maro Liapi Maria Egglezou Panagiotis Alafouzos Elena Stratigopoulou Stelios Karpathakis Pavlos Dounis Maria Vlachava Eva Kanata Antonis Remos Lefteris Kintatos Alex Economou Georgina Karachaliou Dimos Mpeke Natasa Veneti Fani Tselepi Evelina Nikoliza Dimitris Tiktopoulos Vera Boufi Dimitris Marmarinos Athina Georgopoulou Katerina Sousoula Souarez Aggelos Mpoutakidis Ioanna Tsagkari Kelly Protopappa Haris Mosaidis Melina Aslanidou Emily Charalambous Vasilis Chatzipartalis Anna Maria Bilida Ifigenia Atkinson Eirini Kalamaraki Irwan Easty Aggeliki Zika Mary Doutsi Marianna Rosalind MacKrell Giorgos Pappas Maria Mouratidou Mavrikios Mavrikiou Christina Makri Giorgos Gkekas Panos Togkaridis Nicki Pappa
Blind auditions The blind auditions took place in the Kapa Studios in Spata, Attica. Each coach had the length of the artists' performance to decide if they wanted that artist on their team. If two or more coaches have wanted the same artist, then the artist chose their coach. If only one wanted the artist, then the artist was defaulted in his team. Once the coaches picked their team, they pitted them against each other in the Battles.
The blind auditions episodes were aired on Fridays since January 10, 2014 until February 21, 2014 with the last blind audition being aired on Sunday, February 23, 2014.
Color key Coach hit his/her "ΣΕ ΘΕΛΩ (I want you)" button Artist defaulted to this coach's team Artist elected to join this coach's team Artist eliminated with no coach pressing his or her "ΣΕ ΘΕΛΩ (I want you)" button
Episode 1 (January 10) The first blind audition episode was broadcast on January 10, 2014.
Group performance: The Voice of Greece coaches – Medley of "Me Mia Agalia Tragoudia", "Den Eho Diefthinsi", "Iparhi Zoi", "Ine Stigmes", "Pidao Ta Kimata"
Order Artist Age Hometown Song Coach's and contestant's choices Michalis Despina Antonis Melina 1 Katerina Lioliou 19 Thessaloniki, Macedonia "Dream On" 2 Lefteris Kindatos 32 Athens, Attica "Feggari Mou Chlomo" — 3 Manos Takkos 22 Athens, Attica "S'Agapo (Ah Peristeri Mou)" — — — — 4 Anna Maria Bilida 25 Tripoli, Peloponnese "To Metrima" — 5 Alex Economou 25 Paphos, Cyprus "Make You Feel My Love" 6 Katerina Ktisti 19 Athens, Attica "Poses Hiliades Kalokairia" — — — — 7 Panagiotis Koufogiannis 26 Nicosia, Cyprus "This Love" — — — 8 Stelios Mayalios 30 Oxya, Thessaly "How You Remind Me" 9 Nikos Nikolaidis 31 Aspropyrgos, Attica "Tesseris" — — — — 10 Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou 28 Athens, Attica "Love the Way You Lie" — — —
Episode 2 (January 17) The second blind audition episode was broadcast on January 17, 2014.
Order Artist Age Hometown Song Coach's and contestant's choices Michalis Despina Antonis Melina 1 Panayiotis Vintzilaios 26 Naxos, South Aegean "Billie Jean" 2 Elena Stratigopoulou 24 Kalamata, Peloponnese "Whole Lotta Love" 3 Dimos Beke 40 Ammochostos, Cyprus "Rolling in the Deep" 4 Stamatina Kanta 29 Athens, Attica "Young and Beautiful" — — — — 5 Dimitris Fournarakis 21 Athens, Attica "Ola S'agapane" — — — 6 Irwan Easty 29 Athens, Attica "Somebody Told Me" — — 7 Marianna Tsala 24 Chalcis, Euboea "Getting Away with It" — — — — 8 Emily Charalambous 16 Paralimni, Cyprus "Anthropoi Monaxoi" 9 Nicki Pappa 31 Athens, Attica "Na M'afiseis Isixi Thelo" — — — 10 Georgia Dimou 34 Athens, Attica "Apenanti" — — — — 11 Aris Kambanos 23 Athens, Attica "Poios na Sigkrithei Mazi Sou" — — —
Episode 3 (January 24) The third blind audition episode was broadcast on January 24, 2014.
Order Artist Age Hometown Song Coach's and contestant's choices Michalis Despina Antonis Melina 1 Aggelos Mpoutakidis 23 Alexandreia, Imathia "Pou Na'sai" 2 Natasa Veneti 22 Athens, Attica "Nobody's Wife" — 3 Christos Santikai 19 Athens, Attica "An Eisai Ena Asteri" — — — — 4 Vasilis Axiotis 34 Arta, Epirus "The Show Must Go On" 5 Yuri Melikov 16 Ammochostos, Cyprus "Delilah" — — — 6 Eirini Kalamaraki 21 Athens, Attica "Me Ta Matia Kleista" — 7 Pavlos Dounis 26 Thessaloniki, Macedonia "Feggaria Xartina" — — 8 Giorgos Giakoumakis 29 Heraklion, Crete "Den Se Xreiazomai" — — — — 9 Maria Elena Kiriakou 29 Larnaca, Cyprus "Because of You" 10 Ioanna Poliviou 28 Larnaca, Cyprus "Distixos" — — — — 11 Fani Tselepi 22 Volos, Thessaly "To Lathos"
Episode 4 (January 31) The fourth blind audition episode was broadcast on January 31, 2014.
Order Artist Age Hometown Song Coach's and contestant's choices Michalis Despina Antonis Melina 1 Mavrikios Mavrikiou 23 Lemesos, Cyprus "Poso S'agapo" — 2 Constantina Christopoulou 23 Athens, Attica "Back to Black" — — — 3 Georgina Karachaliou 33 Athens, Attica "Whole Lotta Love" 4 Panagiota Kapsali 21 Athens, Attica "Fuckin' Perfect" — — — — 5 Eleni Geragidi 21 Athens, Attica "Addicted to love" — — — 6 Valia Dimou 20 Thessaloniki, Macedonia "Trava Skandali" — — — — 7 Steven Anderito 18 Athens, Attica "Price Tag" 8 Elias Vlachakis 26 Sparta, Laconia "This Love" — — — 9 Violeta Christina Dagkalou 19 Volos, Thessaly "Makria Mou Na Figeis" — — — 10 Andreas Prekas 41 Athens, Attica "Na Ksanartheis" — — — — 11 Panos Togkaridis 34 Piraeus, Attica "Cheimonanthos" — —
Episode 5 (February 7) The fifth blind audition episode was broadcast on February 7, 2014.
Order Artist Age Hometown Song Coach's and contestant's choices Michalis Despina Antonis Melina 1 Evelina Nikoliza 25 Athens, Attica "Someone like You" — 2 Dimitris Marmarinos 23 Piraeus, Attica "Long Train Runnin'" — — 3 Eva Kanata 31 Alexandroupoli, Thrace "To S'agapo Mporei" — — — 4 Maria Arni 21 Chalkidiki "Zilia Mou" — — — — 5 Maria Egglezou 31 Karditsa, Thessaly "Na M'agapas" 6 Marianna Rosalind MacKrell 23 Athens, Attica "Born This Way" — — — 7 Elpida Papakosma 20 Thessaloniki, Macedonia "What's Up?" — — — 8 Vasilis Chatzipartalis 35 Athens, Attica "Sinnefa tou Gialou" — 9 Christina Miliou 26 Athens, Attica "Ta Leme (Bastardo)" — — 10 Giannis Mitilinaios 26 Athens, Attica "Ennoeitai" — — — — 11 Aggeliki Zika 42 Athens, Attica "Stereotipa"
Episode 6 (February 14) The sixth blind audition episode was broadcast on February 14, 2014.
Order Artist Age Hometown Song Coach's and contestant's choices Michalis Despina Antonis Melina 1 Antigoni Tsiplakidi 43 Athens, Attica "Respect" 2 Haris Mosaidis 25 Kilkis, Macedonia "Apologize" — — 3 Nikos Mpaliakos 26 Paphos, Cyprus "Impossible" — — — 4 Maro Liapi 24 Argos, Peloponnese "Me Ta Matia Kleista" — — — 5 Panagiotis Alafouzos 28 Chalcis, Euboea "Prigkipessa" — — — 6 Ioanna Pepeta 21 Mykonos, Cyclades "Taxidi Sti Vrohi" — — — — 7 Mary Doutsi 28 Naousa, Imathia "I Agapi Argi" — — 8 Alexandra Varsami 24 Athens, Attica "Kiss from a Rose" — — — — 9 Constantina Zerva 20 Kalamata, Peloponnese "Dinata" — — — 10 Nina Koumi 23 Athens, Attica "Tis Diskoles Stigmes" — — — — 11 Katerina Sousoula Souarez 21 Athens, Attica "Kookoobadi" — —12 Maria Mouratidou 21 Kavala, Macedonia "The Greatest Love of All" — — —
Episode 7 (February 21) The seventh blind audition episode was broadcast on February 21, 2014.
Order Artist Age Hometown Song Coach's and contestant's choices Michalis Despina Antonis Melina 1 Kelly Protopappa 27 Athens, Attica "Ta Leme (Bastardo)" 2 Ifigenia Atkinson 26 Athens, Attica "Set Fire to the Rain — — 3 Tasos Panagiotopoulos 23 Kavala, Macedonia "Trouble" 4 Vera Boufi 25 Athens, Attica "Oi Filoi Mou Xaramata" — — — 5 Giorgos Pappas 37 Preveza, Epirus "Kalokairia Kai Xeimones" — — 6 Anna Makridis 25 Lemesos, Cyprus "Steppin' Stone" — — — — 7 Athina Georgopoulou 32 Athens, Attica "Fotia Sta Savatovrada" — — — 8 Stathoula Kapakli 31 Chalcis, Euboea "Venzinadiko" — — — — 9 Christina Makri 20 Agrinio, Aetolia-Acarnania "To Metrima" — 10 Michalis Karagounis 21 Thessaloniki, Macedonia "Emeina Edo" — — — — 11 Stelios Karpathakis 47 Athens, Attica "You Give Love a Bad Name" — — —
Episode 8 (February 23) The eighth and last blind audition episode was broadcast on February 23, 2014.