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VoxAfrica TV Announces Launch of 2nd Season The Voice Afrique

The show, which is officially sponsored by Orange, will be broadcasted every Saturday from October 14th 2017 on Voxafrica TV’s Francophone Africa and Europe platforms

The winner will have the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of the show’s first winner Pamela Baketana, and walk away with a record deal courtesy of Universal Music

LONDON, United Kingdom, June 7, 2017/APO/ --

After an exceptional first season, that saw more than 10 million people in Cameroon and 9 million viewers in Ivory Coast alone tuning in every Saturday, for five months, Voxafrica TV (http://VoxAfrica.com) has launched the second season of the highly rated flagship TV show, in French Speaking Africa.

The show, which is officially sponsored by Orange, will be broadcasted every Saturday from October 14th 2017 on Voxafrica TV’s Francophone Africa and Europe platforms. The Voice Afrique Francophone will also be replayed on partnering TV channels.

Music fans will once more discover new talents that will be competing for four months until the big final, which is due to air on January 27th 2018.

The winner will have the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of the show’s first winner Pamela Baketana, and walk away with a record deal courtesy of Universal Music.

The second season of the Voice Afrique Francophone will be staged for 16 weeks and bring together 4 judges made up of African and international music stars, as well as a charismatic master of ceremony. Their mission will be to reveal the best voice amongst contestants from 16 French speaking countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroun, Congo, The Ivory-Coast, Gabon, Guinee, Equatorial Guinee, Mali, Niger, Central African Republic, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Chad and Togo).

The show will run over 16 episodes and feature 6 blind auditions, 4 battles, 2 knockouts and 4 live shows from 06th January 2018.

The search to find the most talented singer in Francophone Africa will follow the below steps:

  • From 1st June 2017 – 23rd July 2017: scouting in 16 French speaking countries
  • From 15th June – 15th July 2017: Internet Castings
  • 29th & 30th July 2017: simultaneous local castings in Abidjan for the West African Region and Douala for the Central African Region.

Season 2 of the Voice Afrique Francophone has a lot of surprises in store. Voxafrica TV will continue to update the press and its millions of eager waiting fans as the show draws closer.

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of VoxAfrica.

Press Contacts:
Raïssa Okoï – Phone: +44 207 501 77 00 - Raissa.Okoi@VoxAfrica.com
Franck Dindji – Phone : +225 08 98 48 06 - Franck.Dindji@VoxAfrica.com

Stay tuned on our social medias and website:
http://VoxAfrica.com - www.Facebook.com/TheVoiceAfrique - www.Twitter.com/TheVoiceAfrique #TheVoiceAfrique - www.Viber.com/TheVoiceAfrique - www.Youtube.com/TheVoiceAfrique

About VoxAfrica:
VoxAfrica (http://VoxAfrica.com) is the first bilingual & Pan-African television channel with its headquarters based in London-UK from where we broadcast around the world via satellite.