The Voice The path of the candidates

“The Voice”: The path of the candidates

Before candidates for blind auditions can sing on the main stage of “La Voix,” they go through a process of identification, interviews, and rehearsals that allows them to push their abilities to the fullest when they find themselves in front of the coaches.

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After the candidates have been selected during the pre-selection, they are therefore invited to go to the MELS studio near Saint-Hubert airport in Longueuil for a first day of preparation.

“The day before their blind casting, candidates often come with their family or companions,” said Chantal Lépine, executive producer of the show. They first have a meeting where we explain in detail how the day will go.

All are then interviewed by Charles Lafortune while the families are back in the foyer. They then have to have a one-on-one interview where they explain their background. In blind auditions, contestants decide which song they want to sing. You are not trained by anyone.

day 2

The next day, the contestants return to the studio to audition for the coaches. The mood behind the scenes is much more feverish, as not only is there an audience in the studio, it really is that day that will be pivotal for the rest of the adventure.

“On this second day, we’re recording everything we’re going to see on the show, be it the passage through the corridor, the red door and the 20-second countdown,” states the executive producer. Then they go on stage and audition with the coaches.”

The competition rules also state that from the moment the contestant begins their performance, the production is not allowed to stop the cameras.

After being taken or not by one of the coaches, the contestants go to their family before simply returning home.

Great logistics

Blind Audition Recording Days are a challenge for the production team. “The coaches should never meet the candidates before their audition, specifies Chantal Lépine. For example, candidates never go to the second floor of the studio, where the dressing rooms are located. The trainers are accompanied in all their movements in the studio. But since we have two studios available, we can handle this limitation well.

At the end of each audition day, once the candidates and the audience have left, the coaches conduct individual interviews to come back to their decisions, their good and not so good moves of the day. Only at the end of the blind audition process does the research team give them files about each member of their team so they can try to get to know them well to form duels.

“In these files we provide each individual’s biography, but we also include links so the coaches can hear and see everything the candidates have previously done on social media, YouTube or others.”

With all that in hand, each of the coaches will form six pairs of candidates who will compete in duels, reducing each of the teams from 12 to 6 candidates.