Blind auditions are over, it’s time for Battles! Saturday April 15, 2023, several million viewers followed the new evening of The Voice. On the menu, the second stage of tele-hook with a novelty sauce. Amel Bent, Bigflo and Oli, Vianney and Zazie attended the competition, not in their usual position but from center stage. “This year, the coaches will live this stage in immersion. An armchair will be placed right next to the stage. Result: the coaches will live their battles alongside their talents. Emotionally it was powerful. The coaches felt the emotions in a stronger way, which brought a new tension to this stage”, said Pascal Guix, deputy director in charge of entertainment at ITV Studios France, during the press conference a few months ago. A breath of fresh air and a much more immersive experience for coaches that did not please everyone.
Unpublished request
During this first act, an unexpected event occurred. Two artists from Zazie’s team asked to continue the adventure as a duo after their duel. They are Prischia, 26, a Parisian artist and French beat box champion, and Méa, a 24-year-old dancer from Lyon. The two women clashed over the title Our best years of Grand Corps Malade. If the rapper brothers had chosen Prichia, Vianney and Amel Bent preferred his opponent. But ultimately, the interpreter of Zen followed the advice of Toulouse before being surprised by the request of the qualified. “I want to take Méa with me, we had already talked about it, for us it’s a duo”asked Prischia when Zazie had just named her the winner of her battle. “For this show, Méa brings me something that I don’t have: the body, the commitment, the optimism and the sharing. Together, we can be much stronger and live a more beautiful adventure”. It is therefore as a duo that they will continue the adventure.
#TheVoiceMea and Prichia complement each other on the stage of The Voice. A magnificent evidence and a rare alchemy To follow the Live ➡️ https://t.co/NR66w8uNJdpic.twitter.com/tIK3VPkto6
— The Voice ✌️ (@TheVoice_TF1) April 15, 2023
Behind the scenes, no one knew!
“We had a little heat stroke at the time. What is certain is that I will remember it for a long time”revealed to 20 minutes, the show’s producer, Matthieu Grelier. “There was a moment of hesitation. Nobody in production was aware that they had mentioned this during their rehearsals”he recalled. “However, it was essential to make it understood that this would remain an exception”, he added. When this “coup de theater” occurs, Matthieu Grelier will exchange with Nikos Aliagas at the headset to accept this request. “The editing was tight but what viewers saw on TF1 on Saturday is true to how things unfolded”, he specified. We hold there, one of the sequences of this 12th season!
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