The Voice of Switzerland

The Voice of Switzerland
Genre	Talent show
Created by	John de Mol Roel van Velzen
Presented by	Sven Epiney Viola Tami Christa Rigozzi Max Loong
Judges	Stress Marc Sway Stefanie Heinzmann Philipp Fankhauser DJ Antoine Anna Rossinelli Noah Veraguth Büetzer Buebe
Composer	Martijn Schimmer
Country of origin	Switzerland
Original language	German
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	35
Production
Production company	Talpa
Original release
Network	SRF 1 (1–2) 3+ (3–)
Release	Original series: 1 January 2013 (2013-01-01) – 19 April 2014 (2014-04-19) Revival series: 27 January 2020 (2020-01-27) – present
Related
The Voice of Holland

The Voice of Switzerland is a Swiss reality talent show created by John de Mol and based on the concept The Voice of Holland. It is part of an international series. It began airing on SRF 1 on January 26, 2013 and ended after two seasons, on April 19, 2014. After 6 years the show returned, on January 27, 2020 on 3+.

Format

About 110 participants are invited for the first phase of the television program, the so-called "blind auditions". There, the candidates, accompanied by a live band, have to sing in front of an audience on a stage. At first, the jury members can only hear but not see the singer because they are sitting in a swivel chair with their backs to the stage. You can vote for a candidate by turning to them during the audition lecture to see them. The candidate will go one round if they receive at least one of the four jury votes. Among those jury members who have turned for them, the candidate chooses their coach for the further rounds. In the blind auditions each of the four coaches should get a group of ten candidates.

This is followed by a training session in which the coaches prepare their candidates for the second phase called "Battle Round". In the Battle Round, two candidates from the same coaching group sing one song in a duet. Only one of the two candidates will continue after the decision of the respective coach. Since the second season (2014), a candidate who has not been selected by his own coach can be taken on by one of the other coaches. After the battles each coach selects three artists for the live shows in a phase called "Sing-off" (2013) or "Knockout Round" (2014).

In the last phase, the live shows, the candidates compete against each other within their coaching groups and are judged by both the coaches and the television viewers. Representatives of different coaches meet each other in the final of the best four participants. In the final only the television viewers decide on the victory.

Coaches and presenters

Coaches

Coach	Seasons
	1	2	3
Stress
Marc
Stefanie
Philipp
DJ Antoine
Anna
Noah Veraguth
Büetzer Buebe

• Coaches gallery
• 
  Stress (2013–2014)
• 
  Marc Sway (2013–2014)
• 
  Stefanie Heinzmann (2013–2014)
• 
  Philipp Fankhauser (2013–2014)
• 
  DJ Antoine (2020)
• 
  Anna Rossinelli (2020)
• 
  Noah Veraguth (2020)
• 
  Büetzer Buebe (duo, 2020)

Presenters

Presenter	Seasons
	1	2	3
Sven
Viola
Tanya
Christa
Max

Key

  Main presenter

  Backstage presenter

• Main Presenters gallery
• 
  Sven Epiney (2013–2014)
• 
  Viola Tami (2014)
• 
  Christa Rigozzi (2020)
• 
  Max Loong (2020)

Coaches and finalists

  – Winning coach and contestant

  – Runner-up coach and contestant

  – Third place coach and contestant

  – Fourth place coach and contestant

Winners are in bold, the finalists are in italicized font, and the eliminated artists are in small font.

Seasons	Coaches and their finalists
1	Marc Sway	Stress	Stefanie Heinzmann	Philipp Fankhauser
	Sarah Quartetto Simona Lüthi Tanja Zimmermann	Nicole Bernegger Leslie Philbert Deborah Bough	Angie Ott Gabriela Grossenbacher Valon Muhadri	Iris Moné Ricardo Sanz Gisel de Marco
2	Tiziana Gulino Brendon Schoen Johnson Stefania Pagano	Rahel Buchhold Freschta Akbarzada Glory Bosnjak	Shem Thomas Vanessa Iraci Céline Bührer	Peter Brandenberger Will G. Maxim Essindi
3	Büetzer Buebe	Anna Rossinelli	Noah Veraguth	DJ Antoine
	Martina Vogel Jacky Widmer	Drilona Musa Lorena Beadini	Remo Forrer Meo Dalgic	Diego Daniele Axel Marena

Season summary

Colour key

•   Team Marc
•   Team Stress
•   Team Stefanie
•   Team Philipp
•   Team DJ Antoine
•   Team Noah
•   Team Anna
•   Team Büetzer Buebe

The Voice of Switzerland series overview

Season	First aired	Last aired	Winner	Other finalists			Winning coach	Hosts	Coaches (chairs' order)
									1	2	3	4
1	26 Jan 2013	16 Mar 2013	Nicole Bernegger	Angie Ott	Sarah Quartetto	Iris Moné	Stress	Sven Epiney, Viola Tami	Marc	Stress	Stefanie	Philipp
2	22 Feb 2014	19 Apr 2014	Tiziana Gulino	Shem Thomas	Peter Brandenberger	Rahel Buchhold	Marc Sway
3	27 Jan 2020	6 Apr 2020	Remo Forrer	Jacky Widmer, Martina Vogel, Drilona Musa, Lorena Beadini, Meo Dalgic, Axel Marena, Diego Daniele			Noah Veraguth	Christa Rigozzi, Max Loong	Büetzer Buebe	Anna	Noah	DJ Antoine