The Voice Kids (Dutch TV series)

The Voice Kids
Genre	Reality television
Created by	John de Mol
Developed by	Talpa Content
Presented by	Martijn Krabbé Wendy van Dijk
Starring
Judges	Marco Borsato Ilse DeLange Ali B Angela Groothuizen Nick & Simon
Voices of	Martijn Krabbé
Country of origin	Netherlands
Original language	Netherlands
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	54
Production
Producer	Talpa Productions
Production locations	Studio 1, Aalsmeer (seasons 1) Studio 24,Hilversum (seasons 2-)
Running time	120 minutes (inc. adverts)
Original release
Network	RTL4
Release	January 27, 2012 (2012-01-27) – Present

The Voice Kids was a Dutch television program produced by Talpa Productions and is broadcast on RTL 4. It is based on The Voice of Holland. Participation is only open to children between the ages of six and fourteen years.

Format

The show consists of four phases: production audition, Blind Audition, The Battles and the final. The production auditions are not televised and only the good singers are selected. Like in Idols, Popstars, and The X Factor, they then audition for the judges, but in The Voice Kids, they do a blind audition, which is similar to the theater rounds in the previously mentioned talent shows. During the blind auditions, the coaches choose singers based on musicality and voice. Each candidate will have the opportunity to sing a song of their choice for about a minute. If one of the coaches decides to place the artist in his or her team, he or she must press the "I Want You" button. When two or more coaches want the same artist in his or her team, the artist may choose which coach he or she wants to go with.

When all the teams are full, the artists go to the next round with their coaches. These are "The Battles". Each coach groups three singers together to battle against each other together to sing a song chosen by the coach. The coach can only choose one singer from each battle. Whoever it is, decides the "Dream Team" in addition to the coach consists of one person. The act that goes directly go to the "Sing Off". Each team will have five acts in the Sing Off. All artists must sing the song from their audition. In each team, only two acts should be chosen to go to the finals.

After the Sing Offs, there are six finalists (seasons 1-6; eight in season 7). They sing in consultation with their coach. The audience at home can then vote on which act to go home. The coaches decide together with the audience at home that act is eliminated; they each have half of the votes. In the second season was only which act was eliminated at home by the public.

In the final stage, there is still one finalist per team. The winner will be named using televoting by the public at home to "The Voice Kids".

The judges / coaches Marco Borsato, Nick & Simon and Angela Groothuizen published in 2011. VanVelzen could not participate in the jury because he would be during the shooting father. Angela Groothuizen was appointed by John de Mol to also participate in the jury during the second season.

On April 17, 2015 said Nick & Simon at RTL Late Night quit familiar with The Voice Kids, because they have many other projects which receive priority.

For the first time in the show's history, The Voice Kids will have its fourth coach. Douwe Bob will serve as the fourth coach on the seventh season.

Coaches

• Coaches gallery
• 
  Angela Groothuizen (2012–2015)
• 
  Nick & Simon (2012–2015)
• 
  Marco Borsato (2012–)
• 
  Ilse DeLange (2016–)
• 
  Ali B (2016–)

Coaches and hosts

Coaches	Seasons
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Marco Borsato
Angela Groothuizen
Nick & Simon
Ali B
Ilse DeLange
Douwe Bob

Hosts	Seasons
	1	2	3	4	5	6
Martijn Krabbé
Wendy van Dijk

Coaches and finalists

•   Winner
•   Runner-up
•   Third place

Winners are in bold, eliminated artists in smaller font. Final contestants listed first.

Season	Coaches and their finalists
1	Marco Borsato	Nick & Simon	Angela Groothuizen
	Vajèn van den Bosch Melissa Meewisse	Dave Dekker Channah van Wingerden	Fabiënne Bergmans Lieke van 't Veer
2
	Laura van Kaam Jesse Pardon	Irene Dings Joep Reijnen	Jurre Otto Silvana Plaisier
3
	Ayoub Maach Demi van Wijngaarden	Isabel Provoost Katrina Malabanan	Stephanie Habets Nieloefaar Bahadori
4
	Robin Buijs Redouan Badaou	Lucas van Roekel Robine Koerts	Joy Schulte Numidia el Morabet
5	Marco Borsato	Ali B	Ilse DeLange
	Selenay Dagdelen Bodine Hilhorst	Imani Al Ebate Alexander Leenheers	Esmée Schreurs Jaco Oskam
6
	Merle Velthuis Noa Groenen	Iris Verhoek Anna Grigorian	Thijs Overpelt Raya Rajjab

Season summary

  Team Borsato

  Team Ali B

  Team Angela

  Team Ilse

  Team Nick & Simon

  Team Douwe

Season	First aired	Last aired	Winner	Runners-up	Winning coach	Hosts	Junior Reporter	Coaches (order)
								1	2	3	4
1	January 27, 2012	March 23, 2012	Fabiënne Bergmans	Dave Dekker	Angela Groothuizen	Martijn Krabbé Wendy van Dijk	Bram Bos	Marco	Nick & Simon	Angela	—
				Vajèn van den Bosch
2	December 21, 2012	February 15, 2013	Laura van Kaam	Irene Dings	Marco Borsato		Finn Karels
				Jurre Otto
3	December 27, 2013	February 21, 2014	Ayoub Maach	Stephanie Habets			Jarmo de Rek
				Isabel Provoost
4	February 14, 2015	April 11, 2015	Lucas van Roekel	Robin Buijs	Nick & Simon		Lara Bakker
				Joy Schulte
5	February 6, 2016	April 1, 2016	Esmée Schreurs	Selenay Dagdelen	Ilse DeLange		Job Cremers		Ilse	Ali B
				Imani Al Ebate
6	February 24, 2017	April 21, 2017	Iris Verhoek	Merle Velthuis	Ali B		—
				Thijs Overpelt
7	2018	2018	TBA	TBA	TBA		TBA				Douwe
				TBA
				TBA