The sixth season of the Dutch reality singing competition The Voice of Holland premiered on 25 September 2015 on RTL 4. Martijn Krabbé, Wendy van Dijk, and Jamai Loman all returned, as did Marco Borsato and Ali B as coaches. However, the sixth season saw Trijntje Oosterhuis and Ilse DeLange replaced by Dutch singer-songwriters Anouk and Sanne Hans from the band Miss Montreal. This is the last season that Marco Borsato appeared as a coach on the show, as he announced on 13 November 2015 that he will not be returning for the next season. In his place, singer Waylon will serve as coach for Season 7. The season was won by Maan de Steenwinkel of Team Borsato, and this is Borsato's fourth time as winning coach.
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.
Naomi Sharon Webster later went on to sign to rapper Drake's record label OVO Sound.
Coaches Marco Borsato and Ali B have returned for season 6, while Anouk Teeuwe and Sanne Hans replace former judges Ilse DeLange and Trijntje Oosterhuis.
Teams Color key
Coaches Top 40 artists Anouk Jennie Lena Neda Boin Brandon Delagraentiss Sanne Mallant Dali Philippo Leonie Bos Tevin Raynor Naomi Sharon Webster Job Lentferink Ali B Brace Ivar Vermeulen Gaia Aikman Natacha Carvalho Melissa Meewisse Maylissa Row Racheal Botha Danjil Tuhumena Eva van der Donk Jefferson Fabiënne Mucuk Dion Cuiper Jasmine Karimova Sanne Hans Dave Vermeulen Ivan Peroti Daniël Kist Nikita Pellencau Elise de Koning Christie Middel Jasper van Aarst Arthur ter Voert Chris Link Fabiënne Lantinga Agnes Diawara Marco Borsato Maan de Steenwinkel Melissa Janssen Jared Grant Kelvin Muïs Tibisay Mercera Leonie Bos Sanne Mallant Natacha Carvalho Daniël Kist Babette van Vugt Tommie Christiaan
Blind auditions
Color key Coach hit his/her "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 "I WANT YOU" button
Episode 1 (September 25) Order Artist Age Song Coach's and contestant's choicesAnoukAli BSanneMarco 1 Dave Vermeulen 22 "Call Me the Breeze" — 2 Gaia Aikman 23 "I'm Your Baby Tonight" — — 3 Maan de Steenwinkel 18 "The Power of Love" 4 Christie Middel 21 "Think Twice" 5 Thijs Pot 17 "Can't Hold Us" / "Things We Lost in the Fire" — — — — 6 Leonie Bos 27 "Somebody to Love" — — 7 Racheal Botha 27 "My Love is Your Love" / "No Woman, No Cry" — — 8 Jasper van Aarst 21 "The Book of Love" — — — 9 Jolentha Zaat 25 "Hold My Hand" — — — — 10 Mylène de la Haye 56 "Nothing Ever Hurt Like You" — — — — 11 Jennie Lena 37 "Who's Lovin' You"
Episode 2 (October 2) Order Artist Age Song Coach's and contestant's choicesAnoukAli BSanneMarco 1 Melissa Janssen 18 "The House of the Rising Sun" — 2 Fiona Sarah Vredenduin 21 "Highway to Hell" — — — — 3 Brandon Delagraentiss 38 "Uptown Funk" 4 Daniël Kist 22 "Thinking Out Loud" — 5 Jasmine Karimova 17 "Habits (Stay High)" — — — 6 Job Lentferink 20 "You Make It Real" — — — 7 Nikita Pellencau 16 "Love Me Like You Do" — 8 Brigit Schouten 26 "I Knew You Were Trouble" — — — — 9 Ivar Vermeulen 40 "Wonderwall" — — 10 Melynda Milman 38 "I Still Cry" — — — — 11 Brace 28 "Flink Zijn"
Episode 3 (October 9) Order Artist Age Song Coach's and contestant's choicesAnoukAli BSanneMarco 1 Jared Grant 24 "Lately" — — 2 Naomi Sharon Webster 20 "A Natural Woman" — — 3 Aukje en Tyrone "No Air" — — — — 4 Tommie Christiaan 29 "It Will Rain" — 5 Maylissa Row 18 "Bang Bang" — — — 6 Gideon Luciana 18 "Hero" — — — — 7 Dion Cuiper 21 "Feeling Good" — — 8 Jefferson 27 "The Monster" / "Lose Yourself" — — — 9 Tibisay Mercera 25 "Give In to Me" — — — 10 Noëlle Visser 20 "Just Like a Pill" — — — — 11 Elise de Koning 21 "Hero"
Episode 4 (October 16) Order Artist Age Song Coach's and contestant's choicesAnoukAli BSanneMarco 1 Agnes Diawara 17 "J'me Tire" — — — 2 Vincent de Lusenet 34 "Chandelier" — — — — 3 Melissa Meewisse 17 "Thinking of You" — — — 4 Natacha Carvalho 19 "The Girl You Lost to Cocaine" 5 Chris Link 34 "Samen Zijn" / "Amy" — — 6 Alisha Ramcharan 19 "Burn" — — — — 7 Arthur ter Voert 36 "Sex on Fire" — — 8 Eva van der Donk 19 "The Edge of Glory" — — — 9 Omar Andrew 24 "How Come, How Long" — — — — 10 Dali Philippo 16 "De Zee" — 11 Neda Boin 25 "Yesterday"
Episode 5 (October 23) Order Artist Age Song Coach's and contestant's choicesAnoukAli BSanneMarco 1 Sanne Mallant 30 "Who Wants to Live Forever" — — 2 Barry James Thomas 52 "A Change Is Gonna Come" — — — — 3 Fabiënne Lantinga 27 "Purple Rain" — — — 4 Babette van Vugt 21 "Mamma Knows Best" — 5 Tevin Raynor 21 "Take Me to Church" — — 6 Danjil Tuhumena 41 "Valerie" — — 7 Constantijn Schaap 23 "Not Over You" — — — — 8 Kelvin Muïs 25 "Wake Me Up" — — — 9 Fabiënne Mucuk 19 "The Book of Love" — — 10 Ivan Peroti 38 "Let's Stay Together"
Notes
After singing her blind audition song, contestant Fabiënne Mucuk was requested, by coach Ali B, to sing a second song. She sang "I'm Gonna Find Another You" by John Mayer.
The Battle Rounds The battle rounds determine which candidates from each team advance to the Knockout Rounds. Two contestants from within a team sing in a vocal battle against each other, and ultimately, in this season's case, 4 artists from Team Anouk, 6 artists from Team Ali B, and 5 artists from Teams Sanne and Borsato will advance. Continuing from season 4, each coach is allowed to steal one contestant from another coach's team. Continuing from Season 5, the studio audience can vote on contestants (through their own mobile phones). They can vote for that contestant (red vs. blue), thus helping influence the coach's decision on who moves on. Color key: Artist won the Battle and advanced to the Knockout Rounds Artist lost the Battle but was stolen by another coach and advanced to the Knockout Rounds Artist lost the Battle and was eliminated
Episode Coach Order Winner Song Loser 'Steal' result Anouk Sanne Marco Episode 6 Marco Borsato 1 Kelvin Muïs "Fire" Daniël Kist — — Ali B 2 Melissa Meewisse "Hold My Hand" Jasmine Karimova — rowspan="5" — Sanne Hans 3 Ivan Peroti "Hold Back the River" Agnes Diawara — — — Marco Borsato 4 Melissa Janssen "Love Runs Out" Natacha Carvalho — Ali B 5 Brace "Never Nooit Meer" Dion Cuiper — rowspan="2" — Anouk 6 Jennie Lena "Roar" Leonie Bos Episode 7 Sanne Hans 1 Elise de Koning "Titanium" Fabiënne Lantinga — rowspan="7" rowspan="7" rowspan="7" Anouk 2 Dali Philippo "Counting Stars" Job Lentferink Ali B 3 Racheal Botha "Ain't Nobody" Fabiënne Mucuk — Marco Borsato 4 Maan de Steenwinkel "The Voice Within" Sanne Mallant Sanne Hans 5 Nikita Pellencau "Love Me Again" Chris Link rowspan="3" Ali B 6 Gaia Aikman "See You Again" Jefferson Marco Borsato 7 Jared Grant "Treasure" Tommie Christiaan Episode 8 Sanne Hans 1 Dave Vermeulen "Run to You" Arthur ter Voert rowspan="7" rowspan="7" rowspan="7" rowspan="7" Ali B 2 Maylissa Row "Dangerous" Eva van der Donk Anouk 3 Neda Boin "When You Believe" Naomi Sharon Webster Marco Borsato 4 Tibisay Mercera "Survivor" Babette van Vugt Ali B 5 Ivar Vermeulen "Lean On" Danjil Tuhumena Sanne Hans 6 Christie Middel "FourFiveSeconds" Jasper van Aarst Anouk 7 Brandon Delagraentiss "Dancing in the Street" Tevin Raynor
The Knockouts New to this season is the introduction of the Knockout Round, which functions to replace the Clash Rounds of Season 5. During this round, coaches Sanne and Marco will advance three artists to the next stage of the competition, the Live Shows, while Anouk and Ali B will advance two and four artists, respectively. This is done to eliminate an equal number of artists across each team, ultimately sending twelve artists through to the Live Shows. In this round, in a format similar to The X Factor's Six-Seat Challenge, there will be three seats (two for Anouk and four for Ali B). After a contestant performs a song of his or her choice, he or she will sit in one of these seats; this will occur for the first three artists (two for Anouk, four for Ali B) performing on a team. However, after these first contestants perform, the fate of the fourth artist (third artist for Anouk and fifth artist for Ali B) will be decided based on whether his or her coach would like to switch out an artist already seated in favor of this performer. In the case of a switch-out, the artist that was switched out will be eliminated, and this performer will sit down. If the coach would instead like to keep the performers already seated and thus not give a seat to this performer, he or she will be immediately eliminated. After all artists have performed, those who end up seated will advance to the Live Shows.
Color key – Contestant was eliminated, either immediately (indicated by a "—" in the "Switched with" column) or switched with another contestant – Contestant was not switched out and advanced to the Live Shows
+ Artists' performances Episode Coach Order Artist Song Result Switched with Episode 9 Tibisay Mercera "You Oughta Know" Eliminated rowspan="3" Jared Grant "Cry Me a River" Advanced Leonie Bos "Just Like a Pill" Eliminated Melissa Janssen "Sweet Dreams" / "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" Advanced Leonie Bos Kelvin Muïs "Human Nature" Eliminated Tibisay Mercera Maan de Steenwinkel "Holy Grail" Advanced Kelvin Muïs Elise de Koning "Break Free" Eliminated rowspan="3" Daniël Kist "Liefs uit Londen" Advanced Christie Middel "Sober" Eliminated Ivan Peroti"Nothing Compares 2 U" Advanced Christie Middel Nikita Pellencau "Till It Hurts" / "Shotgun" Eliminated Elise de Koning Dave Vermeulen "Born to Be Wild" Advanced Nikita Pellencau Episode 10 Gaia Aikman "Love Never Felt So Good" Advanced rowspan="4" Racheal Botha "Wavin' Flag" Eliminated Ivar Vermeulen "Someone Like You" Advanced Maylissa Row "Tell Me 'Bout It" Eliminated Brace "Mag Ik Dan Bij Jou" Advanced Racheal Botha Natacha Carvalho "Let Her Go" Advanced Maylissa Row Melissa Meewisse "Don't Worry" Eliminated — Neda Boin "Love Me Harder" Advanced rowspan="2" Sanne Mallant "Time to Say Goodbye" Eliminated Dali Philippo "Teenage Dream" Eliminated — Jennie Lena "All by Myself" Advanced Sanne Mallant Brandon Delagraentiss "Respect" Eliminated —
Live Shows The final phase of the competition, the Live Shows, started on December 4, 2015. Unlike previous seasons, in which an equal number of contestants on each team were eliminated every week, results will apply to the contestants regardless of their teams.
Color key: Artist was saved by the public's votes Artist was eliminated
Week 1: Top 12 (December 4) Order Coach Artist Song Result 1 Sanne Hans Dave Vermeulen "Sex Bomb" Public's vote 2 Ali B Natacha Carvalho "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off" Eliminated 3 Marco Borsato Maan de Steenwinkel "Warrior" Public's vote 4 Ali B Brace "Parijs" Public's vote 5Gaia Aikman "Runnin' (Lose It All)" Eliminated 6 Sanne Hans Daniël Kist "Señorita" Public's vote 7 Anouk Neda Boin "Beneath Your Beautiful" Public's vote 8 Ali B Ivar Vermeulen "Sugar" Public's vote 9 Anouk Jennie Lena "I'll Be There" Public's vote 10 Marco Borsato Melissa Janssen "Ain't No Other Man" Public's vote 11 Sanne Hans Ivan Peroti "Hello" Public's vote 12 Marco Borsato Jared Grant "I Got You (I Feel Good)" Public's vote
+ Non-competition performances Order Performer Song 1 Jess Glynne and Team Anouk (Jennie Lena, Neda Boin) "Rather Be" / "Don't Be So Hard on Yourself" / "Hold My Hand" 2 Jess Glynne "Take Me Home"
Week 2: Top 10 (December 11) This week, the one artist with the lowest number of public votes will be eliminated, leaving nine artists to compete the following week.