The Voice Nigeria

The Voice Nigeria
Genre	Reality Talent Show
Created by	John de Mol
Based on	The Voice of Holland
Presented by	IK Osakioduwa Stephanie Coker
Judges	2baba Waje Patoranking Timi Dakolo Yemi Alade Falz Kcee Niniola Kizz Daniel
Theme music composer	Martijn Schimmer
Opening theme	This is The Voice
Ending theme	This is The Voice
Country of origin	Nigeria
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	29
Production
Executive producer	M-net
Editor	Sasani Studios
Running time	60-120 byminutes
Production company	Talpa Media
Original release
Network	Africa Magic Urban Africa Magic Showcase
Release	Original series: 10 April 2016 - 8 October 2017 Revived series: TBA

The Voice Nigeria is the Nigerian version of the TV series The Voice. It premiered on Africa Magic from 2016-2017 and StarTimes from 2019 television channels Showcase and Urban on DStv in Nigeria on 10 April 2016 and was sponsored by Airtel and Coca-Cola. The winner would earn a recording contract with Universal Music Group, an SUV car worth N7 million and a trip to Abu Dhabi.

Format

The Blind Auditions

The show starts with the Blind auditions. In this stage the coaches, all noteworthy performing artists, have their chairs faced away from the stage as the contestant sings. The coaches have the duration of the contestant's performance(90 seconds) to decide whether they want the contestant on their team and turn. If one coach turns, the contestant defaults to that coach but if more than one coach turns, the contestant has to choose who he/she wants to work with. In the end of the blind auditions, each coach will have twelve "Talents" on their teams.

The Battle Rounds

The next stage is the battle rounds. In this stage, the coaches pair their talents in twos and give each pair a song to perform. After the performance the coach chooses one to advance while the other goes home, or is stolen by another coach. Each coach has two steals. The coaches advance with eight talents each at the end of the battle rounds.

The Cross Battles

The next stage is the cross battles. In this stage, the artist will get paired with another artist (from a different team), the artist with the most votes moves on to the Live Shows and the loser will either get stolen or saved by their or another coach.

The Live Shows

After the battle rounds comes the Live Shows. In this stage, each of the talents perform a song given by their coach, and the coach saves one out of every four talents while the rest are left to public votes. Public votes save one talent out of each team every week while the rest are evicted. The talents are cut from 32 to 16 to 12 to 8 of them who qualify for the finals. From the Top 8, the winner and runner up are decided by the public votes.

Coaches

• Timi Dakolo (1–)
• Waje (1–)
• Patoranking (1-2)
• 2Baba (1)
• Yemi Alade (2)
• Niniola (3)
• Kcee (3)
• Kizz Daniel (3)

Season summary

Colour key

  Team Waje

  Team 2Baba

  Team Patoranking

  Team Timi

  Team Yemi

  Team Niniola

  Team Kcee

Season	Premiere	Finale	Winner	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place	Winning coach	Presenters	Coaches (order)
									1	2	3	4
1	10 April 2016	31 July 2016	A'rese	Chike	Cornel	Brenda	Waje	IK Osakioduwa (main) Stephanie Coker (assistant)	2Baba	Waje	Pato	Timi
2	18 June 2017	8 October 2017	Idyl	Ebube	Syemca	WOW	Timi		Pato	Yemi	Waje
3	September 2019	December 2019	TBA						Kcee	Waje	Niniola

Hosts

• Main Host: IK Osakioduwa
• Assistant: Stephanie Coker

Season 1 (2016)

Template:Infobox reality talent competition The opening broadcast was on 10 April 2016. The four coaches for the inaugural season are Nigerian artistes Waje, Timi Dakolo, Patoranking and 2baba aka Tuface (formerly known as 2face Idibia). The programme is hosted by IK Osakioduwa and Stephanie Coker.

Contestants

• Team Waje:
  • Agharese Emokpae (A'rese) (Lagos, 28)
  • Michael (Lagos 23)
  • Promise (Portharcourt, 26)
  • Patrick (Cross River State, 24)
• Team Patoranking:
  • Chike (Anambra State, 23)
  • Linda Inneka (Lagos 24)
  • Nonso Bassey (Imo State, 27)
  • DNA (Clinton & Blair) (Abuja, 19 and 19)

• Team Timi:
  • Armstrong Martins (Lagos, 20)
  • Cornel (Cross River State, 35)
  • Dewe (Ekiti State, 19)
  • Vicky (Lagos, 25)
• Team 2Baba:
  • Brenda (Delta State, 20)
  • Viveeyan (Anambra, 22)
  • David Operah (Lagos, 22)
  • Jennifer (Nigeria, 18)

Top 4

• A'rese from Team Waje - winner
• Chike from Team Patoranking - runner-up
• Cornel from Team Timi - third
• Brenda from Team 2baba - fourth

Season 2 (2017)

Judges

In the second and final season, three of the four judges were kept, Timi Dakolo, Waje and Patoranking. But Yemi Alade replaced first season judge 2Baba (Tuface or 2face).

Competitors

*Note: Shayee from Team Yemi withdrew from the competition before the Battles.

• Team Waje:
  • Arewa
  • Efezino
  • Favour
  • Glowrie
  • J'Dess
  • Obichi
  • Shapera
  • Wow
• Team Patoranking:
  • Afolayan
  • Annie C
  • Daniel
  • Ebube
  • Hightee
  • Kessydriz
  • Voke
  • Yimika

• Team Timi:
  • Amarachi
  • Bada
  • Idyl
  • Jahtell
  • Kendris
  • Precious
  • Victor
  • Wolei
• Team Yemi:
  • Bunmi
  • Chris Rio
  • Ifeoma
  • Jahnomso
  • Majeeka
  • Oge
  • Syemca
  • Wilson

Top 4 and Winner

At the live season finale for Season 2, the Top 4 of the competition were announced as follows:

1. Idyl - Team Timi Dakolo - winner
2. Ebube - Team Patoranking -runner-up
3. Syemca - Team Yemi Alade - third
4. WOW - Team Waje - fourth

Season 3 (2019)

Template:Infobox reality talent competition The opening broadcast will be on 8 September 2019. The two coaches returning for the third season are Nigerian artistes Waje and Timi. The two new coaches for the third season are Niniola and Kcee.

Contestants

• Team Niniola:

• Team Kcee:

• Team Waje:

• Team Timi:

Top 4

• TBA from Team TBA - winner
• TBA from Team TBA - runner-up
• TBA from Team TBA - third
• TBA from Team TBA - fourth

External links

• DSTV: The Voice Nigeria page
• Africa Magic The Voice Nigeria page