The music show “The Voice” goes into the new season: Sarah Connor and Johannes Oerding are new. The comeback candidate is coached by a woman who caused a stir at #FreeESC with one black eye.
Berlin – When “The Voice of Germany” goes into its eleventh season on Thursday (8:15 pm) on ProSieben and Sat.1, Mark Forster as a coach will have to struggle with a very special image problem.
“In the last few years” The Voice “has crept in so badly that the really blatant singers don’t come to me because I always make sayings,” Forster told the German Press Agency. “I have such a position on The Voice that I’m“ The Funny One ”. That harms me with the talents, I’ve felt for one or two seasons. I tend to prefer special interest talents. Someone who is freaky, such a heavy metal band: they just go to Mark Forster. “
The successful musician (“The Day After Tomorrow”) sees this as a prejudice: “Strategically, I don’t think that’s so smart. I would definitely recommend that future talents come to my team and not misinterpret it. ”But the competition from the other coaches must be taken seriously. Sarah Connor (“How beautiful you are”) and the singer-songwriter Johannes Oerding will be there for the first time. Nico Santos are used to the “Voice” fans from previous seasons.
Before moving up to one of the classic coaches, Santos first moderated the “Comeback Stage” on “The Voice”: Talents who were eliminated from the show – either because none of the coaches buzzed for them or because they fought against competition had to give – get a second chance to win there. The singer Elif takes on this part this season.
Elif himself was considered the title favorite of the ProSieben casting show “Popstars” in 2009 – then surprisingly had to be content with second place. The singer has since built up a loyal fan community. On the stage of the ESC alternative #FreeESC, the German-Turkish woman caused a stir with a black eye this year – the injury was made up. It was intended as a “sign against violence”, as Elif explained on her Instagram account. The gesture was primarily intended to denounce violence against women and homosexuals in Turkey.
Now Elif wants to build the winning act: “I will deal intensively with my talents in order to work out their strengths and promote them. I will get the best out of them. “
Meanwhile, singer Sarah Connor has announced that she wants to hear nothing less than the full range of emotions in one voice so that she turns around in the blind auditions. “I look for voices that stimulate my imagination and make me dream, that help me to feel something that I cannot express myself,” she says in an interview with ProSieben. Her credo: “What we artists have to do on stage is always to leave a piece of our soul there.” Dpa
