The Voice is one of the most popular television formats and has spread the most in the world in the last decade. Although it was born in the Netherlands at the initiative of John de Mol, the American version broadcast on NBC was the one that made it popular. In Spain, the program has been on the country’s two main pay channels, Telecinco and Antena 3, extending to a multitude of categories.
One of the best known today is La Voz Kids, where the renowned Almeria singer David Bisbal participates as a coach. The former Operación Triunfo contestant in its first edition stopped by the set of El Hormiguero this past Monday, along with his companions Lola Índigo and Eva González. There he presented the ninth season of the young version, which premieres on Antena 3 this Saturday, April 13 at 10:00 p.m.
During his intervention, the artist confessed a peculiarity that had become a question: why he had not returned to the adult version. “When a child does not continue on the path of the contest, they are the ones who say that nothing happens, I have come to enjoy, and that gives you a lot of peace of mind. In my case, I have not repeated La Voz as an adult, but La Voz Kids has, and I told Lola, children are not competitive, they come to play and that is a wonderful point.”
Bisbal only participated in two editions of La Voz when the contest was broadcast on Telecinco, in 2012 and 2013. From there, he did not return to the format until the children’s edition, for which he repeated on Atresmedia. Another coach who left the Mediaset version in 2013 was Rosario Flores, who at the time also expressed herself about the differences between adults and children: “What a child gives you, no one can give you.”
“I always say who invented that program. The child takes it much better than the adults. I decided to do the children (La Voz Kids) because the adults (in La Voz) take it more personally, the children can cry, but after five minutes they forget,” Bisbal commented, also mentioning afterwards the competitiveness between the relatives. According to him, grandparents were often much more insistent than parents.
However, that was not the most striking moment of the program. This occurred after the Trancas y Barrancas section, when Lola Índigo reacted to a woman who was doing a comb in the audience. The singer asked her for explanations after feeling interceded, but the viewer pointed out that she had been given instructions by the team, pointing her finger at the camera.
