The world’s biggest singing competition, The Voice 2022, is returning to Channel Seven and 7plus.
The newest season kicks off 7.00 pm Monday, 18 April, with coaches Keith Urban, Rita Ora, Guy Sebastian and Jessica Mauboy reclaiming their iconic spinning red chairs.
Hosted by Sonia Kruger, The Voice 2022 will see 60 aspiring artists step onto the coveted The Voice stage.
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The series begins with the Blind Auditions as artists hope to turn the superstar coaches’ iconic red chairs. This season, the stakes are even higher with the coaches’ teams capped at 12 artists.
If the artist gets more than one chair turn, the coaches must pitch to the artist with the artist deciding which team to join. In a world-first, this season introduces the coveted Battle Pass, allowing coaches to fast-track artists straight through to the hotly contested Battle Rounds.
Also new this season is The Callbacks: a tough new round for the coaches as they must decide who they will take through to the next round from their chosen 12 artists. Each coach will review their team during a deliberation to decide which artist goes straight through to The Battles, which artists will be grouped to perform in The Callbacks and which artists will go straight home. Teams will go from 12 to six artists.
The Voice 2022 contestant: Lou P Scarlett
After The Callbacks are complete, each artist must prove their star power again to their coach against their fellow artists in the iconic Battle Rounds. In the Battle Rounds, each coach pairs their six artists into three groups of two.
The Grand Final will see the top-four artists take to the stage with their coach for a show-stopping duet. At the end of the Grand Final, Australia will decide which of the four finalists will be crowned The Voice of 2022.
Keith Urban said, “What gets me the most is when I feel something; when there’s a truth in their voice that speaks to me beyond the sound of just their vocal and I’m able to feel it deeply.”
Last year’s winning coach, Guy Sebastian, is searching for that one-in-a-million voice. “Special voices are rare, and it is worth fighting for as a coach when you hear it,” he said.
Jessica Mauboy said she is listening to tone and connection with the song when an artist steps on The Voice stage.
“I want them to make me jump out of my chair and turn it to learn more about them as an artist.”
The Voice is an ITV Studios Australia production for the Seven Network.
The Voice premieres 7.00pm Monday, 18 April on Channel 7 and 7plus and continues 7.30pm Tuesday and Wednesday.
Top image: The Voice 2022 contestant, Faith Sosene