La Voz Senior (Spanish for The Voice Senior) is a Mexican reality talent show that premiered on July 15, 2019 on Azteca Uno. It is based on and part of The Voice franchise created by television producer John de Mol.
When TV Azteca acquired the format of La Voz in 2019 from Televisa, they announced they would also produce La Voz Senior, for elders over 55.
The show consists of three phases: Blind audition, Knockout phase, and Finale. Four judges/coaches, all noteworthy recording artists, choose teams of contestants through a blind audition process (6 members in season 1 and 12 members in season 2 y 3).
Each judge has the length of the auditioner's performance (about one minute) to decide if he or she wants that singer on his or her team; if two or more judges want the same singer (as happens frequently), the singer has the final choice of coach. The third season introduced the block button, where a coach could prevent another coach from getting a contestant on their team.
In this phase two artists from the same team sing an individual song and their coach chooses the winner. In the Senior format, no steals are available.
In the Finale, each artist competes to receive their coachâÂÂs and publicâÂÂs vote. The artist with the highest votes from each team advances to the next round. In the last round, the highest voted artist wins the title as their countryâÂÂs The Voice 'Senior', along with their coach.
The first season features Ricardo Montaner, Belinda, Yahir and Lupillo Rivera as coaches, and as host, same as season eight of the adult version. Filming for the second season began in September 2020, revealing Belinda, Montaner, Yahir returning as coaches, joined by MarÃÂa José, replacing Rivera. Pérez also was replaced in the second season by Eddy Vilard.