The first season of the Romanian reality talent show Vocea României premiered on September 27, 2011[1] on ProTV and was hosted by Pavel Bartoș and Roxana Ionescu,[2] while Vlad Roșca was the social media correspondent.
[3] Horia Brenciu, Loredana Groza, Smiley and Marius Moga were the coaches for the first season.
[5] It immediately proved to be a hit for ProTV and the network renewed the show for a second season.
Four coaches, all famous musicians, choose teams of contestants through a blind audition process.
Contestant auditions were held on June 26 and 27, 2011, at Hotel Crown Plaza Bucharest.
[13][14] Coaches began narrowing down the playing field by training the contestants with the help of "trusted advisors".
* Lavinia Vâlcan withdrew from the contest (see #Controversies);[15] as a result, Anthony Icuagu, Gabriel Tran and Marcel Lovin formed a trio for the battle rounds.
[21] Public voting (by phone calls and text messages) commenced at this point.
[24] Voting proceeded as before, except the third-placed contestant in each team was automatically eliminated, without going through the sing-off round.
Vâlcan claimed that, for the battle round, she had been forced to choose between two songs that did not suit her.