The Voice of Nepal

The Voice of Nepal
Genre	Reality competition
Created by	John de Mol Jr.
Based on	The Voice franchise
Directed by	Laxman Paudyal
Presented by	Sushil Nepal
Country of origin	Nepal
Original languages	English Nepali
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	33
Production
Executive producers	Pralhad Singh Mahat (seasons 1–2) Sushil Nepal John De Mol
Editors	Sohan Manandhar Buddha Ratna Maharjan Sajan Shahi Bibek Basnet
Running time	160 minutes
Original release
Network	Kantipur Television (2018) Ramailo HD (2018) Himalaya Television (2019–present)
Release	25 August 2018 (2018-08-25) – present

The Voice of Nepal is a Nepalese reality show and the Nepalese format of the international TV singing reality series called The Voice. The show usually has four different coaches (judges), who eventually form four different teams after the selection event called the Blind Audition. Each team has to go through the battle round where contestants are paired with one another within the same team and only half of the total selected contestants from the blind audition are selected for the knockout round. During the knockout round, based on The Voice format, only the best and strongest contestants who their respective coach considers the best overall are selected by their coaches. They also have the sole right to do this on his or her own and take them to the live round (Voting Round). During the live round event, through a series of voting episodes, only one contestant with the most popular vote will advance to the grand finale. The first season of the voice of Nepal was won by CD Vijaya Adhikari from Team Deep, season 2 was won by Ram Limbu from Team Pramod and season 3 was won by Kiran Gajmer from Team Pramod.^[1] The Grand Finale of season 1 was held on 14 December 2018 in Quatar stadium, the second season's Grand finale was held at Taragaon Open Field Chuchchepati Kathmandu on 7 December 2019 and the third season's Grand Finale was held in The Voice Studio, Dhumbarahi. The voice of Nepal was bought by Himalaya Television.

The host of the new series is Sushil Nepal (2018 onwards) and Oshin Sitoula (2018), the coaches are Deep Shrestha (season 1-3), Sanup Poudel (season 1), Abhaya Subba (season 1), Pramod Kharel (season 1-5, 7-), Raju Lama (season 2-4, 6-), Astha Raut (season 2), Trishna Gurung (season 3), Prabisha Adhikari (season 4), Rajesh Payal Rai, aka Mula, (season 4), Uday Shotang (season 5 onwards), Khem Century (season 6-), Melina Rai (Season 6-). The series is directed by Laxman Paudyal, the former director of season one of Nepal's first international franchise singing reality show, Nepal Idol.^[2][3][4]

The audition for The Voice of Nepal (season 2) was taken from The Voice of Nepal app for iOS and Android, and, for the first time, through various social media like Facebook as well. The coaches are Deep Shrestha, Pramod Kharel, Astha Raut and Raju Lama and the series is directed by Laxman Paudyal, the former director of season one of Nepal's first international franchise singing reality show, Nepal Idol. Abhaya Subba and Sanup Poudel were replaced in the season.

The season 2 of the show is broadcast on Himalaya Television.

Blind auditions for The Voice of Nepal season 3 started on 19 March 2021 on Himalaya HD Television; the final audition ended on Saturday, 17 April with more than 150 contestants anticipated throughout the audition round. As usual, for the battle round, this season's coaches have successfully secured 64 top performers through the audition round.anuska

The new episode (Battle Round) started on 24 April 2021 and ended on 15 May of the same year, where all 16 selected performers from each coach battled against each other in pairs; only nine including one steal were able to advance to the knockout round.

The Knockout Round was started on Friday, 4 June and was aired until 25 June 2021. All nine selected contestants from each coach, including steal, were divided into three different groups; only one outstanding performer from each divided group, in total three, were selected for the live round.

The Live Round started 2 July and lasted until Saturday, 17 July. All three contestants from each coach went through a voting format where the contestants with the lowest vote had to leave the show every week and only one final contestant advanced to the Grand Finale.

Only one contestant who advanced to the Finale from the live round through voting from each coach was able to join this round. All four remaining total contestants from four different coaches battled against each other; the talent with the highest worldwide vote was declared as the winner of The Voice of Nepal season 3.

Coaches' teams after the Battle Round. (Stolen artists at the bottom).

Coaches' teams after the knockout round.

The digital audition for season 4 was started from April 29 to May 15, 2022. There are four coaches in this season :- Pramod Kharel, Raju Lama, Prabisha Adhikari & Rajesh Payel Rai. Among the four coaches, Pramod kharel has won three voice winning awards including the voice of Nepal kids. Finalists:- Team Pramod-Yogesh Magar Team Raju-Karan Rai winner's season 4 Team Prabisha-Shahil Limbu Team Rajesh-Sabina Yonghan limbu. The winner of the Season 4 VON is Karan Rai.^[5]

The official Facebook page of The Voice of Nepal (VON) revealed the announcement for the digital audition of season 5. The season introduced two fresh faces: Milan Newar from VON Kids and Uday Sotang, who joined as the new coaches alongside Pramod Kharel and Rajesh Payal Rai.

The winner of The Voice of Nepal season 5 was Binod Rai, who was from team Milan. The runner-ups were Makar Bahadur Yonjan from team Rajesh, Kumar Prayas Rai from team Uday, and Nogen Limbu from team Pramod, respectively.^[6]

The official Facebook page of The Voice of Nepal (VON) revealed the announcement for the digital audition of season 6.

The Physical audition also known as blind audition aired on January 17, 2025 on Himalaya Television and on Voice of Nepal’s official YouTube channel.

  Winner

  Loser

  Steal

Contestants in black belong to the original team, while those in blue were stolen from another team.

  Advanced

  Eliminated

The official YouTube channel of The Voice of Nepal (VON) has announced three of the four coaches for the upcoming Season 7. Coach Pramod will be joining the team after being absent from Season 6 of The Voice of Nepal and Season 4 of The Voice of Nepal Kids. From The Voice of Nepal Kids, Coach Melina and Coach Khem will also serve as coaches this season. The name of the fourth coach has not yet been revealed. At this time, details regarding the digital audition have yet to be announced.

The Voice of Kids is a junior version of The Voice of Nepal based on the original Dutch version. Digital auditions were opened in April 2021. Two coaches were also announced during the Grand Finale of The Voice of Nepal season 3. Prabisha Adhikari and Pramod Kharel were announced as the first two coaches of The Voice of Kids season 1. Raju Lama and Milan Newar were also announced through the official social media platforms of the show as the final two coaches. Contestants are required to be between the ages of 6 and 14. On February 24, 2023, it was announced that Sushant KC is the newest coach replacing Raju Lama. The Voice of Kids Season 3 was announced by Social Media platform. In this season Chhewang Lama and Melina Rai entered as new Coaches replacing Sushant KC and Prabisha Adhikari from Season 2. On January 24, 2025, The digital audition was opened for season 4. This was officially announced during Voice of Nepal’s Season 6 episode 3 of blind audition.

  Team Raju

  Team Prabisha

  Team Milan

  Team Pramod

  Team Sushant

  Team Melina

  Team Chhewang

  Team Khem

  Team Satya

• Prior to the start of the second season, Abhaya Subba published a video titled "Dear Voice of Nepal, Give the right reasons.....", alleging malpractice in the management of the show.^[7] She asserted that the show annexed her as the judge in the second season without prior informing them.
• After end of the second season, Top 4 contestant Bikash Limbu was rejected for the world tour which created controversy among show makers; the tour company and management department denied to clarify this controversy.

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