The Voice Senior () is a Russian singing competition television series broadcast on Channel One. Based on the original The Voice Senior, it has aired one season and aims to find currently unsigned singing talent (solo or duets, professional and amateur) contested by aspiring singers, age 60 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner will be determined by television viewers voting by telephone, SMS text, and The Voice App. The winners of the five seasons have been: Lidia Muzaleva, Leonid Sergienko, Dina Yudina, Mikhail Serebryakov and Raisa Dmitrenko.
The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. The original panel featured Leonid Agutin (season 1), Pelageya (seasons 1―2), Lev Leshchenko (seasons 1―3), and Valery Meladze (season 1). The panel for the upcoming fifth season features Elena Vaenga (season 3, 5―), Valeriy Syutkin (season 5―), Igor Kornelyuk (season 5―), and Alexander Malinin (season 5―). Other coaches from previous seasons include Valeriya (season 2), Mikhail Boyarsky (season 2), Tamara Gverdtsiteli (season 3), Garik Sukachov (season 3), Stas Namin (season 4), Laima Vaikule (season 4), Valery Leontiev (season 4), and Oleg Gazmanov (season 4).
The Voice Senior began airing on September 14, 2018, as an autumn TV season programme. In 2022, Channel One renewed the series through its fifth series that premiered on autumn 2022.
Conception An adaptation of the Dutch show The Voice Senior, Channel One announced the show under the name Голос. 60+ (The Voice. 60+).
In each season, the winner receives ₽1,000,000.
Selection process and format Blind auditions Each season begins with the "Blind auditions," where coaches form their team of artists (4 artists in season 1-2, 5 artists since season 3) whom they mentor through the remainder of the season. The coaches' chairs are faced towards the audience during artists' performances; those interested in an artist press their button, which turns their chair towards the artist and illuminates the bottom of the chair to read "Я выбираю тебя" ("I Want You"). At the conclusion of the performance, an artist either defaults to the only coach who turned around or selects his or her coach if more than one coach expresses interest. Knockouts The Knockouts are similar to the Sing-offs in The Voice Kids. In the "Knockout Rounds," four (or five) artists within a team sing individual performances in succession. At the conclusion of the performances, coach would decide which two of four (or five) artists get to advance to the Final. Final In the final live performance phase of the competition, artists perform in live show, where public voting narrows to a final group of four artists and eventually declares a winner. Addition
In each season along with determining the winner, television viewers vote for the Best coach (but in season 2 the public didn't determinate the Best coach) using The Voice App and HbbTV option in their TV sets.
Coaches and presenter Coaches timeline Coach Seasons 1 2 3 4 5 Leonid Agutin colspan=4 Pelageya colspan=3 Lev Leshchenko colspan=2 Valery Meladze colspan=4 Valeriya colspan=3 Mikhail Boyarsky colspan=3 Tamara Gverdtsiteli colspan=2 colspan=2 Elena Vaenga colspan=2 Garik Sukachov colspan=2 colspan=2 Stas Namin colspan=3 Laima Vaikule colspan=3 Valery Leontiev colspan=3 Oleg Gazmanov colspan=3 Valeriy Syutkin colspan=4 Alexander Malinin colspan=4 Igor Kornelyuk colspan=4
Presenter Presenters Seasons 1 2 3 4 5 Dmitry Nagiev colspan=4 Larisa Guzeeva colspan=4
Series overview
Team Leonid Agutin Team Pelageya Team Lev Leshchenko Team Valery Meladze Team Valeriya Team Mikhail Boyarsky
Team Tamara Gverdtsiteli Team Elena Vaenga Team Garik Sukachov Team Stas Namin Team Laima Vaikule
Team Valery Leontiev Team Oleg Gazmanov Team Valery Syutkin Team Alexander Malinin Team Igor Kornelyuk
Season Premiere Final Winner Runner-up Third place Winning coach Presenter Coaches (chair's order) 1 2 3 4 1 September 14, 2018 October 5, 2018 Lidiya Muzaleva Evgeny Strugalsky Nikolay Arutyunov† Sergey Manukyan Pelageya Dmitry Nagiev Leonid Pelageya Lev Valery M. 2 September 13, 2019 October 4, 2019 Leonid Sergienko Yury Shivrin Vladimir Gritsyk Elena Gurilyova Lev Valeriya Mikhail 3 September 4, 2020 October 2, 2020 Dina Yudina Pyotr Tarenkov Irina Anikina Tatyana Shupenya Tamara Gverdtsiteli Tamara Elena Garik 4 September 3, 2021 October 1, 2021 Mikhail Serebryakov† Evgeny Solomin Andrey Mikhaylov Pyotr Urbanovichus Oleg Gazmanov Stas Laima Valery L. Oleg 5 September 4, 2022 October 2, 2022 Raisa Dmitrenko Viktor Zorin Svetlana Ivanova Alexander Rozhnikov Elena Vaenga Larisa Guzeeva Valery S. Alexander Elena Igor
Coaches' results
+ Coaches' results Coach Winner Runner-up Third place Pelageya 2 times (1–2) — — Elena Vaenga Once (5) — Once (3) Tamara Gverdtsiteli Once (3) — — Oleg Gazmanov Once (4) — — Lev Leshchenko — 3 times (1–3) — Laima Vaikule — Once (4) — Igor Kornelyuk — Once (5) — Leonid Agutin — — Once (1) Valery Meladze — — Once (1) Valeriya — — Once (2) Mikhail Boyarsky — — Once (2) Garik Sukachov — — Once (3) Stas Namin — — Once (4) Valery Leontiev — — Once (4) Valeriy Syutkin — — Once (5) Alexander Malinin — — Once (5)
Best coach Season Best coach First place % Second place % Third place % Fourth place % 1 Pelageya 38% Leonid Agutin 31% Valery Meladze 16% Lev Leshchenko 15% 2 colspan=9 3 Lev Leshchenko 31% Elena Vaenga 25% Garik Sukachov Tamara Gverdtsiteli 22% colspan=2 4 Oleg Gazmanov 52% Stas Namin 21% Valery Leontiev 17% Laima Vaikule 10% 5 Valeriy Syutkin 31% Elena Vaenga 30% Igor Kornelyuk 26% Alexander Malinin 13%
Reception
Seasons average: Ratings The first season premiered on September 14, 2018 with a 5.6 rating in the 18–49 demographic. For its average season rating, the show was in the Top 5 at a 5.45 ranking.
The second season premiered on September 13, 2019 with a 4.8 in the 18–49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by .8 rating scores.
The third season will premiere on September 4, 2020 with a 4.9 in the 18–49 demographic. It was up from last season's premiere by .1 rating scores. Each Russian network television season starts in late August and ends in late May. Season Timeslot (UTC+3) # Ep. Premiered Ended TV season Viewers(ratings) Date Premiere viewers(ratings) Date Final viewers(ratings) 1 Friday 9:30 pm 4September 14, 2018 5.6October 5, 2018 5.1 2018–2019 5.45 2September 13, 2019 4.8October 4, 2019 4.9 2019–2020 4.88 3 5September 4, 2020 4.9October 2, 2020 4.2 2020–2021 4.56
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