The Voice of Switzerland

The Voice of Switzerland
Genre	Talent show
Created by	John de Mol Roel van Velzen
Presented by	Sven Epiney (1–2) Viola Tami (2; backstage, 1) Tanya King (backstage, 2)
Judges	Stress (1–2) Marc Sway (1–2) Stefanie Heinzmann (1–2) Philipp Fankhauser (1–2)
Composer	Martijn Schimmer
Country of origin	Switzerland
Original language	Switzerland
No. of seasons	1 2
No. of episodes	48 (2 seasons)
Production
Production company	Talpa
Original release
Network	SRF 1
Release	1 January 2013 (2013-01-01) – 19 April 2014 (2014-04-19)
Related
The Voice of Holland

The Voice of Switzerland is a Swiss singing talent show, which has been broadcast since January 26, 2013 on the television station SRF 1. It is based on the casting show concept The Voice, which was first realized at the end of 2010 in The Netherlands under the title The Voice of Holland. The German edition The Voice of Germany was first broadcast in 2011.

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 him during his lecture to see him. The candidate will go one round if he receives at least one of the four jury votes. Among those jury members who have turned for him, the candidate chooses his 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

Coach		Seasons
		1	2	3
	Stress
	Marc Sway
	Stefanie Heinzmann
	Philipp Fankhauser

• Coaches gallery
• 
  Stress (2013–2014)
• 
  Marc Sway (2013–2014)
• 
  Stefanie Heinzmann (2013–2014)
• 
  Philipp Fankhauser (2013–2014)

Presenters timeline

Seasons
Presenter	1	2
Sven Epiney
Viola Tami (backstage)
Tanya King (backstage)

Coaches and finalists

  – Winning Coach/Contestant. Winners are in bold, eliminated contestants in small font.

  – Runner-Up Coach/Contestant. Final contestant first listed.

  – 3rd Place Coach/Contestant. Final contestant first listed.

  – 4th Place Coach/Contestant. Final contestant first listed.

Seasons	Judges/Coaches
	Philipp Fankhauser	Stress	Stefanie Heinzmann	Marc Sway
1	Iris Moné Ricardo Sanz Gisel de Marco Daniel Paulweber Lena Schenker	Nicole Bernegger Leslie Philbert Deborah Bough Tabea Anderfuhren Ella Ronen	Angie Ott Gabriela Grossenbacher Valon Muhadri Ralph Güntlisberger Eliane Amherd	Sarah Quartetto Simona Lüthi Tanja Zimmermann Michael André Williams Angela Hengartner
2	Peter Brandenberger Will G. Maxim Essindi Bettina Müller June Robin Portmann	Rahel Buchhold Freschta Akbarzada Glory Bosnjak Matthieu Blanchette Olivier Cheuwa Charlie Roe	Shem Thomas Vanessa Iraci Céline Bührer Veronica Fusaro Carmen Bieri Camilla-Athina Moraïtinis	Tiziana Gulino Brendon Schoen Johnson Stefania Pagano Carla Quartas Moo Malika Michelle Imhof

Season summary

Colour key

  Team Stress

  Team Marc

  Team Stefanie

  Team Philipp

Season	Premiere	Finale	Winner	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place	Winning coach	Presenters			Coaches (order)
											1	2	3	4
1	January 26, 2013	March 16, 2013	Nicole Bernegger	Angie Ott	Sarah Quartetto	Iris Moné	Stress	Sven Epiney	Viola Tami	N/A	Marc	Stress	Stefanie	Philipp
2	February 22, 2014	April 19, 2014	Tiziana Gulino	Shem Thomas	Peter Brandenberger	Rahel Buchhold	Marc Sway			Tanya König
3	2019	2019	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA