The Voice is getting the band again collectively, with former coaches Kelly Clarkson, Adam Levine and John Legend set to return to their spinning chairs for season 29 as a part of a significant revamp for the NBC singing competitors collection.
As introduced Tuesday (July 22), the three Voice veterans are coming again to the choose’s panel for a particular cycle of the present dubbed “Battle of Champions,” which can discover the trio competing towards one another with a number of notable adjustments to the long-running competitors format. For starters, the present’s well-known blind auditions may have the added part of coaches competing towards one another for essentially the most triple turns in season 29, with the winner securing a “Tremendous Steal” that blocks every other coach’s try to swipe a singer from one other crew within the battle spherical.
Extra acquainted faces will rejoin the present throughout knockouts, which can discover Clarkson, Levine and Legend every bringing again two members of their previous groups from earlier seasons for an “In-Season All-Star Competitors.” The returning rivals will face off in vocal battles judged by fellow O.G. Voice coach, CeeLo Inexperienced.
The ultimate change introduced by NBC for the twenty ninth season shall be carried out throughout the present’s semi-finals and finale. For the primary time ever, previous Voice contestants and superfans of the collection will make up a brand new voting block that influences the competitors’s end result in actual time.
Season 29 is about to air in 2026, however manufacturing will happen similtaneously filming for season 28, which airs this fall with coaches Michael Bublé, Snoop Dogg, Niall Horan and Reba McEntire. Clarkson will stability her dedication to the present along with her internet hosting duties on the seventh season The Kelly Clarkson Present.
She and her season 29 cohorts make up among the most beloved Voice coaches in present historical past, with Levine and CeeLo serving to to originate the very first teaching panel throughout the competitors’s debut season in 2011. The Maroon 5 frontman has a complete of 17 seasons below his belt.
Clarkson wouldn’t be part of The Voice till season 14, after which she’d serve on and off as a coach for 12 seasons to date. Legend’s first cycle with the present was season 16 in 2019; he too has since been a vital a part of the panel for a lot of nonconsecutive seasons.
All three of the season 29 all-stars beforehand labored alongside one another on the season 16 panel. They’ve additionally all received The Voice at completely different factors as coaches, making the upcoming installment the primary to function a panel fully made up of winners.