Channel One announced the names of the mentors for the upcoming eighth season of the Voice show. They became Sergey Shnurov, Polina Gagarina, Konstantin Meladze and Valery Syutkin, who for the first time will take a place among the judges of the television project.
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The main producer of music and entertainment programs on Channel One, Yuri Aksyuta, explained that, according to tradition, performers who represent various trends in music and have reached great heights in their field are invited to “coach”.
“Konstantin Shotaevich filigree creates domestic pop music, Sergey Shnurov is all the colors of rock and roll, Polina Gagarina is certainly our pop diva, and Valery Syutkin treats rock and roll and jazz in a unique way” - said the producer.
“This is a completely new paint in the Voice, he has his own view on music and he can teach a lot. I associate great expectations with him, ”Aksyuta added.
By the way, as their "ideal mentors", in addition to the jury of previous seasons, casting participants called pop stars of different directions - from Ivan Dorn to Philip Kirkorov and Alla Pugacheva. The main qualities of a trainer, according to one of the performers, should be "love for his artist, a big heart and big ears."
The first and second stages of the casting ended on July 5th. At first, out of several thousand applications from all over Russia, the commission selected 700 for closed competitive selection, after which among them 120 performers were identified who would appear on the stage during “blind auditions”. Both residents of megacities and small villages from the most remote corners of Russia will come to Moscow to participate in the show. Also, foreign performers will take part in the new season: representatives of Armenia, Belarus, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Iran, Ukraine and Estonia, according to a press release from Channel One.
Filming of the eighth season of “Voices” will begin on August 27, and new releases will be released in the fall of 2019. The permanent leader of the project remains Dmitry Nagiyev.
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Mentors' chairs from the last season of the project were kept by Konstantin Meladze and Sergey Shnurov. Together with them, participants of the seventh season were trained by singer Ani Lorak and rapper Basta. Then the winner of the TV show was Peter Zakharov from the Meladze team. In his final number, he sang the song “Stay” - Russian adaptation of the hit song Je suis malade Serge Lama, widely known in the performance of the famous representative of the French chanson Dalida and Lara Fabian. Meanwhile, Sergey Shnurov became the best mentor of the seventh season according to the results of the audience voting.
The vocal television project Voice is an adaptation of the Dutch show The Voice, which aired for the first time in 2010. The first season of the Russian television show was broadcast in 2012. The jury chairs were occupied by musicians Alexander Gradsky, Leonid Agutin, Pelageya and Dima Bilan. The winner of the project was the ward of Gradsky - a performer from the Republic of Tatarstan Dina Garipova. A year later, in 2013, she represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest, where she took fifth place.
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The composition of the jury for the first three seasons has not changed. Starting from the fourth season of the show, castling took place among the mentors - instead of Pelagia, Agutin and Bilan, the project involved singers Polina Gagarina and Grigory Leps, as well as rapper Basta. In the fifth season, Bilan returned to the show, and in the sixth season, the initial composition of the mentors again appeared in the jury chair.
Participants, finalists and winners of the competition are determined in several stages: blind auditions, fights, knockouts, quarter- and semi-finals and, finally, the final. The television project “opened” for the Russian audience such artists as Nargiz Zakirova, Elmira Kalimullina, Margarita Pozoyan, Mariam Merabova, Gela Guralia and Alexander Bon. “Voice” is a laureate of the “Russian National Music Award” in the nomination “The Best Musical Television Show”.
In 2014, Channel One launched a similar vocal project for children aged 7 to 14 years - “Voice. Children". Last fall, the project “Voice. 60+ ”for older contestants. Children's and “age” project formats are distinguished by reduced competition time.