Background and assets... We review the finalists of "The Voice"

• The finale of season 11 of

  The Voice

  will be broadcast on Saturday May 21, 2022, live, from 9:10 p.m.

• Loris, Vike, Caroline Costa, Nour and Mister Mat are the five finalists.

• 20 Minutes

  retraces their respective careers and their most significant performances.

Who will succeed Marghe?

Answer, Saturday evening, on TF1, during the outcome of season 11 of

.

This final will have an unprecedented profile since it is five and not four coaches who will hope to see their talent win: Nolwenn Leroy will be alongside Amel Bent, Vianney, Florent Pagny and Marc Lavoine and could well see his protege triumph.

Enough to spice up an evening which already promises to offer a high level with the presence, among others, of Angèle, Bigflo and Oli, Slimane, Christophe Willem and Mika… While waiting for the opening of the votes,

traces the background and strengths of the five finalists.

Nolwenn's team: Loris, despite the obstacles

He is in the final… although no one turned on him during the blind auditions.

But Nolwenn Leroy, this season's “hidden” coach, fished out the 18-year-old Swiss who brilliantly passed the following stages: battles, cross battles and super cross battles… before losing in the semi-finals.

But, there again, his "good fairy" Nolwenn was around and gave him the qualifying ticket for this Saturday.

Loris, very comfortable in the rap register, seriously took up singing less than ten months ago, gradually realizing that he had potential to develop.

Marc Lavoine, who was his coach for a few stages, suggested that he bet on his sensitivity.

His favorite performance:

By covering

de Stromae at cross battles, Loris demonstrated his ability to appropriate a song - here by letting out his rage as an outlet - while respecting the author's intention and original performer.

A mission all the more successful as the title in question was fresh – it was released three weeks before the shooting.

Amel Bent's team: Vike

He too could have left the adventure much earlier if the rules had not authorized each coach to save one of his talents eliminated in the cross battles.

Having failed to seduce the majority of the public on his version of

, Vike was thus drafted by Amel Bent, determined to support this talent at the antipodes of his musical universe.

The 26-year-old from Versailles is like a fish in water in rock.

His velvety voice, his handsome face, and the fact that he has a very clear vision of the music he wants to make and share, make him one of the most mature finalists to settle in the musical landscape.

His performance that we preferred:

His duet with Nabilla on

, at the battles, may not have been to everyone's taste, but we were seduced by this stripped down version where their two voices come together intermingled on the modest notes of an electric guitar.

More melancholic than desperate, their interpretation brought up to date this classic of the French-speaking repertoire, the subtleties of which we thought we knew by heart.

Marc Lavoine's team: Caroline Costa, the voice singer

To say that she is the star of this final is not to insult her four acolytes.

Caroline Costa is 25 years old but already has a nice CV behind her.

Revealed in 2008 in

on M6, she joined the troupe of the musical

a few years later .

She had ended up putting her musical career on hold, the time to pamper.

In recent months, the desire to return to her first love tormented her, which is why she wanted to “test her legitimacy” in

.

The artist remains modest and keeps saying that she is in the process of relearning everything.

Her favorite performance:

At the super cross battles, Sonia sublimely covered

by Whitney Houston with surprising intensity for her 16th birthday.

We thought the case was closed and that we would find it in the next round.

And then Caroline Costa arrived, perfectly mastering Beyoncé's

, which she delivered like a walk in the park reminding us that she is this season's “voice” singer.

Florent Pagny's team: Nour, the prodigy

In the telecrochet of TF1, she is at home.

In 2019, Nour participated in

and his journey had stopped at the battles.

Barely three years later and barely less "kid" - she turned 16 in December - here she is in the adult version.

The youngest of the season is not only there to make an appearance: during the cross battles and super cross battles, she imposed herself against the outstanding talents of Ofé and Gautier.

And with the manner: it received respectively 65.2% and 72.7% of the votes of the public.

His performance that we preferred:

By interpreting

at cross battles, Nour proved that his youth was not an obstacle to interpret songs which, on paper, ask to have a little bottle to best embody the intentions.

Vianney team: Mister Mat, the strength of experience

Let's be clear: we are delighted to see a talent over 40 years old – he is 43 – in the final of

.

Regularly, a candidate or a candidate in the prime of life manages to make a nice stretch in the telecrochet of TF1 but remain exceptions.

Moreover, when Mister Mat qualified for the final live meeting, during the semi-finals, against Pauline, 18, and Louise, 21 (one of our darlings) the coaches did not not hide their surprise.

The Isérois does not owe his place to the number of springs on his counter: he is an accomplished singer and musician, who was first a member of the group Mountain Men before releasing a first solo album in 2020, earning him, in particular, a passing through

.

His performance that we preferred:

By resuming

, in the semi-finals, Mister Mat knew how to touch the public.

Thanks to the sensitivity that infuses under his airs of a hatted colossus.

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