Unlike its previous three seasons, talent competition The Voice 4 <超級巨聲4>, also known as Star’s Legend <星夢傳奇> features TVB artists as contestants. This year’s winner will be decided by public votes, in which the winner will walk away with a 338,000 HKD diamond-studded gold microphone trophy. Hosted by Carol Cheng (鄭裕玲) and Amigo Chui (崔建邦), the 10-episode reality singing competition will start off with seven TVB artists, with the best four competing for the title. The format of the show will be as follows: Episode 1: Seven artists will start, with the bottom two with the lowest marks to be eliminated. Episodes 2 to 5: Two new artists will join the competition in each episode and likewise, the last two will be disqualified. Episodes 6 to 7: Two artists will be kicked out but one of them will be saved based on the votes by Hong Kong residents. Episodes 8 to 10: The best four will remain and will go through various singing tests. Hong Kong residents will vote and the artist with the highest vote will be the winner. Judges for the show is comprised of many experienced singers as well as well-known music producers. The star-studded line-up of judges include Jenny Tseng (甄妮), Eric Moo (巫啟賢), Alan Tam (譚詠麟), Hacken Lee (李克勤), Sally Yeh (葉蒨文), Elisa Chan (陳潔靈), Chiu Tsang Hei (趙增熹), Eric Kwok (郭偉亮), Dominic Chow (周啟生), Tang Chi Wai (鄧智偉) and Anthony Lun (倫永亮). Each episode, there will be two groups of judges; one group consists of four celebrity judges and the other group consists of 50-people chosen from the public. Each group will account for 50 percent of the marks. The theme for the first episode is “Dreams”; the seven contestants were Stanley Cheung (張景淳), Ronald Law (羅鈞滿), Fred Cheng (鄭俊弘), Carat Cheung (張名雅), Benjamin Yuen (袁偉豪), Mandy Wong (黃智雯) and Oscar Leung (梁烈唯). Taking the first lead was Stanley, who actually debuted as a member of the short lived boy band “Cheers”. Stanley has never given up hopes of realizing his dreams on stage. Ronald, who presented his song “Peace on Earth” <天下太平>, wanted to participate in The Voice Season 1 but unfortunately at that time, he was already a student in acting class and was not qualified to be a contestant. Miss Hong Kong 2012 Carat Cheung chose Joey Yung’s (容祖兒) “Beautiful Encounter” <華麗邂逅> as her competing song. A hot favorite, Fred who won second place in TVB New Talent Singing Awards in 2001, showed natural talent in singing. The judges were full of praises for him, and he is regarded to have high chances in becoming the winner. Creds: ihktv
Saying this with no bias....but the only ones that sang pretty good were fred, stanley, and ronald..... Despite Carat sang pretty bad, Mandy was worst..... Hate to be an ass, but she should just stick to acting.....Oscar got lucky because he chose a good song... Benjamin was also horrible....... .
Hopefully Fred can use this platform to get his name out there .. lol so many yrs and still nobody know his name-lol Carat was horrible!! Mandy has a voice but chose the wrong song.
Fred is amazing. Ronald is pretty good too. Stanley is not bad. Oscar, Benjamin, Mandy should stick with acting. Carat shouldn't even be in this contest. Fred probably has the best odd right now. Based on the next ep's preview, the added contestant (forgot her name) sounds crazy!!!
^i think the girl was louis koo's girlfriend back in the days....... carat is better than mandy in singing, tho they both were whack...... mandy is the one that shouldnt be in the contest, and like the judges said, she wasnt well prepared......but TVB like there sons and daughters too much to put them in the show and trying to boost the ratings but instead, they got bashed by judges and netizens.....lmao...
TBH, I think imma skip this one. Maintain their image of actors in my head. And i already read spoilers about who will get kicked out and what not -lol Good for Fred though, finally get his name out there. Contestants can both get their music career restarted & maybe more (significant) acting roles.
I'm so disappointed in TVB, tbh. This was once a show to find new stars and instead TVB recruits them all to play kelefe's. These were people who had potential to improve the dying music industry in HK (at least I thought most of them were better than the idol singers being promoted nowadays) and TVB let them go to waste. Now they use the show to promote their third line/kelefe actors. Ughh
I totally agree with KT. I actually just watched the episode and I couldn't help not posting my opinion. The most disappointing thing isn't that the artists sang poorly--after all, they are actors/actresses and not singers. What I find disappointing is the feedback that the judges give... Why are they so dishonest? The first few performers (I totally forgot their names) had horrible pitching, and the judges told them they were in tune. I was full of question marks. I don't understand why there's so much hate for Carat--her pitch was better than most, although she had no dynamics and her phrasing was just horrible. Perhaps it's just TVB editing out the nasty comments, but I don't think it's necessary. People need to know what makes a song good and what doesn't. This is one of the reasons the HK music industry is dying. I find that the newer generation doesn't know what characteristics a good singer should have, and that they mostly judge people's singing abilities based on looks. In my opinion, Mandy was the worst. Oscar wasn't as bad as expected based on the comments above (I read the replies before watching the episode); his performance was actually one of the most touching ones as I could feel he was putting his heart into his singing. Fred wasn't as good as expected, but he was definitely the best one.
after watching the preview of ep2, can't wait to see Fred's performance. So glad he is getting some recognition, better late than never lol
@x_divinity: The judges handed out plenty of negative feedback. TVB just edited out to fit the time slot. So yes you are right, they should have kept some negative feedback for the audience to know. If i recall correctly, previous The Voice had negative feedbacks aired too.
i think the nasty comments was unnecessary altho i do wanna see it...lol.... Judges should critique only based on their singing and not saying stuff like "go back to acting, POS wannabe".... tho i would've done the same if i was one of the judges because some of them were THAT bad......
