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The twelfth season of the Dutch reality singing competition The Voice of Holland premiered on 7 January 2022 on RTL4. Host Martijn Krabbé, Chantal Janzen, as well as backstage host Geraldine Kemper, as well as the three coaches from the previous season, Waylon, Ali B and Anouk all returned, while Jan Smit was replaced by Glennis Grace.[1] [2] Jamai Loman returned as backstage host after a two-season hiatus.
This season marks the first time in the show's history to feature a fifth coach, Typhoon and season 6 winner Maan de Steenwinkel, who selected participants to participate in the Comeback stage. Also, this season marks the introduction of the block button, as first introduced in the fourteenth season of the American version. In addition to the familiar button for his chair, each coach gets three smaller buttons with the names of the other coaches on it. If someone presses the block button, the coach who has been pressed can no longer claim the talent. However, the blocked coach only sees this when he tries to turn around himself. To ensure that the coaches cannot block each other indefinitely, they can only use their block button once in the entire blind audition.[3]
On 15 January 2022, after two episodes aired, the season was suspended indefinitely due to power abuse and sexual misconduct allegations against crew members of the show. Jeroen Rietbergen, band leader of The Voice, made a statement acknowledging sexual misconduct, apologised and resigned.[4] The following day, one of the four coaches, Anouk, announced that after reading Rietbergen's statement, as well as several telephone calls,[5] she had made up her mind and would not return to the show. Days later, coach Ali B was suspended from RTL due to the investigations.[6] As of 2 October, it became known that season 12 will return in 2026.[5]
| Coaches | Top Artists | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| None (former coach: Ali B) | |||||
| Niene Malon | Stacey Saturnino | Muriel Blijd | Jules Avery | ||
| None (former coach: Anouk) | |||||
| Danniel Drullard Hernandez | Pascale Julia Kuiper | David Dam | Cheyenne Latul | Wouter Vos | |
| Glennis Grace | |||||
| Stevie Stunner | Francien van der Burg | Jefferson Manson | Sharon de Bos | ||
| Waylon | |||||
| Simon Roberts | Ray Benjamin | Gonçalo Santos | Jeffrey Schenk | ||
| Typhoon & Maan | |||||
| Pam Osher | |||||
The blind auditions premiered on 7 January 2022. A new feature within the Blind Auditions this season is the Block, which each coach can use once to prevent one of the other coaches from getting a contestant.
| Coach pressed "I WANT YOU" button | ---> | |
|---|---|---|
| Artist defaulted to a coach's team | ||
| Artist elected a coach's team | ||
| Artist was eliminated, but got a second chance to compete in "Comeback Stage" | ||
| Artist was eliminated and was not invited back for "Comeback Stage" | ||
| ✘ | Coach pressed "I WANT YOU" button, but was blocked by another coach from getting the artist | |
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| Order | Artist | Age | Song | Coaches' and contestants' choices | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anouk | Glennis | Waylon | |||||
| 1 | Danniel Drullard Hernandez | 25 | "Never Enough" | ||||
| 2 | Stevie Stunner | 33 | "Diamonds" | — | — | ||
| 3 | Ferry Doldersum | 35 | ”Come As You Are” | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Ray Benjamin | 23 | "Jij Bent Het Leven Voor Mij" | — | — | ||
| 5 | Stacey Saturnino | 30 | "All I Could Do Was Cry" | — | — | ||
| 6 | Pam Osher | 40 | ”Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours” | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Pascale Julia Kuiper | 17 | "Voilà" | ||||
| 8 | Niene Malon | 23 | "Dangerous Woman" | — | — | — | |
| 9 | Francien van der Burg | 27 | "Zeg Me Wie Je Ziet" | — | |||
| 10 | Jeannine La Rose | 41 | "Honesty" | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Simon Roberts | 35 | "Tennessee Whiskey" | ||||
| Order | Artist | Age | Song | Coaches' and contestants' choices | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anouk | Glennis | Waylon | ||||||
| 1 | David Dam | 27 | "Iris" | |||||
| 2 | Muriel Blijd | 56 | "Run To You" | — | — | — | ||
| 3 | Cheyenne Latul | 21 | "Hallucinate" | — | — | |||
| 4 | Jules Avery | 25 | "Creep" | — | — | — | ||
| 5 | Wouter Vos | 28 | "Power Over Me" | |||||
| 6 | Sharon de Bos | 28 | "When I Was Your Man" | — | — | |||
| 7 | Gonçalo Santos | 26 | "Nervous" | — | ||||
| 8 | Femcy | 35 | "Get Here" | — | — | — | — | |
| 9 | Jeffrey Schenk | 39 | "Hart Van Mijn Gevoel" | — | ||||
| 10 | Tina Iliria | 21 | "Elastic Heart" | — | — | — | — | |
| 11 | Jefferson Manson | 22 | "Officer Don't Let Go (original song)" | |||||