The Voice Kids is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. The seventh series began airing on 1 July 2023 on ITV1. The series was confirmed by ITV in September 2022 when applications opened. They closed in November, prior to the airing of the previous series. The programme aired in the summer slot for the first time since the fourth series and aired weekly again, instead of nightly. will.i.am, Ronan Keating, Pixie Lott and Danny Jones all returned as coaches, making it the first time since the third series that all coaches from the previous series returned.
The series was won by twins Shanice & Andrea Nyandoro, making them the first duo to win the show. Their victory also marks will.i.am's first win as a coach on the kids version of the show. This also means that will.i.am has won at least one season in each version he's competed on, as he has won in both the adult series and The Voice Australia.
This series is currently the latest to air. Following the final, it was announced that the show would be put on a hiatus, leaving the fate of the series unknown.
Teams Colour key: Winner Finalist Eliminated in the Battles
Coach Top 16 Artists will.i.am Shanice & Andrea Nyandoro Elim Enock Tai'jah Dixon Theo Hills Ronan Keating Niamh Noade Danny Bretherton Jarlaith Mervyn Yazmin Asim Pixie Lott Hayla-Essen Danns Elyssa Tait Martha Kamugasa Tiara-Leigh Ferns Danny Jones Will Edgar Abigail Moore Alexandra Perez Ramos Oscar Hartland
Blind auditions Color key Coach hit his/her "I WANT YOU" button Artist defaulted to this coach's team Artist elected to join this coach's team Artist eliminated with no coach pressing his or her "I WANT YOU" button Artist received an 'All Turn'.
Episode 1 (1 July) Order Artist Age Song Coach's and contestant's choices will.i.am Ronan Pixie Danny 1 Oscar Hartland 16 "My Hero" – ✔ ✔ ✔ 2 Niamh Noade 14 "The Winner Takes It All" – ✔ ✔ ✔ 3 Stanislav Kurdybakha 11 "Ave verum corpus" – – – – 4 Tiara-Leigh Ferns 13 "Over the Rainbow" – – ✔ – 5 Theo Hills 9 "When I Grow Up" ✔ – – – 6 Hayla-Essen Danns 12 "Golden Hour" – – ✔ ✔ 7 Zara Bateson 10 "Ghost of You" – – – – 8 Danny Bretherton 14 "Naïve" – ✔ – – 9 Alexandra Perez Ramos 12 "Be My Baby" – – – ✔ 10 Tai'jah Dixon 13 "Thank God" (original song) ✔ – ✔ ✔
Episode 2 (8 July) Order Artist Age Song Coach's and contestant's choices will.i.am Ronan Pixie Danny 1 Shanice & Andrea Nyandoro 11 "Faith" ✔ ✔ – ✔ 2 Abigail Moore 10 "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" – ✔ ✔ ✔ 3 Armari Freestone 12 "TBA (original song)" – – – – 4 Martha Kamugasa 14 "Lift Me Up" – – ✔ – 5 Jarlaith Mervyn 12 "I Don't Want to Talk About It" – ✔ – – 6Elim Enock 14 "Godspeed" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 7 Yazmin Asim 11 "Fingers Crossed" rowspan="5" ✔ – – 8 Ziame Stewart 12 "Part of Your World" rowspan="4" – – 9 Elyssa Tait 13 "Everything I Didn't Say" ✔ ✔ 10 Maisie Farr 12 "Reach" rowspan="2" – 11 Will Edgar 14 "Nice to Meet Ya" ✔
Show details Results summary Team's colour key Team will.i.am Team Ronan Team Pixie Team Danny
Result's colour key Artist received the most public votes Runner-up Third Finalist Artist received the least public votes Artist was eliminated
+ Results per artist Contestant Battles round Grand Final Shanice & Andrea Nyandoro Safe Winner Hayla-Essen Danns Safe Runner-up Niamh Noade Safe Third Place Will Edgar Safe Fourth Place Elyssa Tait Eliminated Eliminated (Battles round) Martha Kamugasa Eliminated Tiara-Leigh Ferns Eliminated Elim Enock Eliminated Tai'jah Dixon Eliminated Theo Hills Eliminated Danny Bretherton Eliminated Jarlaith Mervyn Eliminated Yazmin Asim Eliminated Abigail Moore Eliminated Alexandra Perez Ramos Eliminated Oscar Hartland Eliminated
Final (15 July)
Musical guest: Cat Burns ("Live More & Love More")
Battles round
+ Battles colour key Artist won the Battle and advanced to the Grand Final Artist lost the Battle and was eliminated
+ Battles results Order Coach Artists Song 1 Danny Jones Will Edgar Abigail Moore Alexandra Perez Ramos Oscar Hartland "Flowers" 2Ronan Keating Niamh Noade Danny Bretherton Jarlaith Mervyn Yazmin Asim "Don't Look Back in Anger" 3 will.i.am Shanice & Andrea Nyandoro Elim Enock Tai'jah Dixon Theo Hills "Special" 4 Pixie Lott Hayla-Essen Danns Elyssa Tait Martha Kamugasa Tiara-Leigh Ferns "Climb Ev'ry Mountain"
Grand Final + Final results Order Coach Artist Song Result 1 Ronan Keating Niamh Noade "People Help the People" Third Place 2 Danny Jones Will Edgar "The Best" Fourth Place 3 Pixie Lott Hayla-Essen Danns "I Am Changing" Runner-up 4 will.i.am Shanice & Andrea Nyandoro "A Sky Full of Stars" Winner
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