The Voice

The Voice is a Russian singing competition television series broadcast on Channel One. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, it has aired eight seasons and aims to find currently unsigned singing talent (solo or duets, professional and amateur) contested by aspiring singers, age 17 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by television viewers voting by telephone, SMS text, and The Voice App. The winners of the eleven seasons have been: Dina Garipova, Sergey Volchkov, Alexandra Vorobyova, Hieromonk Fotiy, Darya Antonyuk, Selim Alakhyarov, Petr Zakharov, Asker Berbekov, Yana Gabbasova, Alexander Volkodav and Viktoria Solomakhina. 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 Dima Bilan (seasons 1–3, 5–6, 10), Pelageya (seasons 1–3, 6, 10), Alexander Gradsky (seasons 1–4, 6, 10), and Leonid Agutin (seasons 1–3, 5–6, 10). The panel for the most recent season eleventh season featured Basta (seasons 4, 7, 9, 11–), Polina Gagarina (seasons 4–5, 8–9, 11–), Vladimir Presnyakov (season 11–), and Anton Belyaev (season 11–). Other coaches from previous seasons include Grigory Leps (seasons 4–5), Ani Lorak (season 7), Konstantin Meladze (seasons 7–8), Sergey Shnurov (seasons 7–9), and Valeriy Syutkin (seasons 8 and 9). The Voice began airing on October 5, 2012, as an autumn-winter TV season program. The show proved to be a hit for Channel One. In February 2023, Channel One renewed the series through its eleventh season that premiered on March 3, 2023.