The fourth season of ''

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singing competition on

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. Lea Salonga and

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reprised their roles as coaches, while

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returned as a coach for the fourth season, replacing

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who left the show to focus on her other projects. The show premiered on August 3, 2019, on

, replacing ''

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''. Vanjoss Bayaban of Team Sarah won the competition, making Sarah Geronimo's second win as coach. In November 2022, ''The Voice Kids'' was renewed for a fifth season that premiered on February 25, 2023.

Changes

Coaches

In an interview on June 3, 2019, it was confirmed that Sarah Geronimo will return as a coach for the fourth season, replacing

who left the show to focus on her other projects. In her post in early July 2019, Lea Salonga confirmed herself that she will return to the show for her fourth season (her overall seventh season in all Philippine versions of ''

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''). Bamboo Mañalac will also return to the show as well.

Hosts

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hosted the fourth season replacing

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, who has hosting duties with '' Minute to Win It: Last Man Standing'' and the second season of ''

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returned as the show's backstage host. Kim Chiu did not return as the show's backstage host to focus on her upcoming drama series ''

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''.

Companion show

An online show, called ''The Voice Kids DigiTV'', airs together with the main program on ''The Voice of the Philippines''

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and

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of the first season of '' The Voice Teens''. Every episode, a guest co-host is invited more particularly those previous contestants of the previous seasons such as

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and

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Mechanics

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'' last July 4, 2019, each coach has the power to decide their team sizes, making the first season of the Philippine version to have such change (with the first six versions having team limits). Alongside this new change is the addition of "steals", making the third kids version around the world to adopt this rule (the first one was on the fifth season of the Vietnamese version and the second one was on the fifth season of the

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version).

Teams

Blind auditions

Taping for the blind auditions started on June 27, 2019. Each coach can have an unlimited number of artists in their team. The first episode aired on August 3. Starting on August 11, 2019, all Sunday episodes aired from 7:45pm to 9:00pm.

Episode 1 (August 3)

The first episode was graced by an opening number from the three coaches, along with the Payatas Kids Choir, wherein they sang "

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Episode 2 (August 4)

Episode 3 (August 10)

Episode 4 (August 11)

Episode 5 (August 17)

Among the auditionees is Pica Mabitag, who joined the first season of Tawag ng Tanghalan: Kids on It's Showtime, but was eliminated to TNT Boys' Mackie Empuerto.

Episode 6 (August 18)

Episode 7 (August 24)

Among the auditionees this episode was Ian Joseph Prelligera, who previously auditioned in the previous season under

's team and was eliminated in the Sing-Offs.

Episode 8 (August 25)

Episode 9 (August 31)

Episode 10 (September 1)

Episode 11 (September 7)

Episode 12 (September 8)

Episode 13 (September 14)

Episode 14 (September 15)

Episode 15 (September 21)

Among the auditionees this episode was Cyd Pangca, who previously auditioned in the previous season under

's team and was eliminated in the Battle Rounds.

The Battles

Each coach is tied with 17 artists in each team. The coaches will pit their artists in trios or quartets for the Battles. The power to steal an artist from other teams is implemented during this season. Each coach is allowed to steal one losing artist from opposing coaches. Artists who win their battle or were stolen by another coach advances to the Sing-offs. The first episode of the battles aired on September 22, 2019. ;Color key:

The Sing-offs

Artists who won their battle or were stolen by another coach advances to the Sing-Offs. This part of the competition follows the format of the previous season wherein remaining artists pit for one of the three spots per team in the Live Shows. ;Color key

Semifinals

The Semifinals was held in Newport Performing Arts Theater,

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, Newport City,

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. This season follows the rules of the previous season except that the finalists of each team will be selected by the coaches themselves, as the semifinals were prerecorded, featuring no interactive viewer voting component, and therefore no subsequent results shows. The top three artists (one per team) coming from the selection of the coaches. will advance to the Finals. Color key:

Live Finals

The Live Grand Finals was held in the Newport Performing Arts Theater,

, Newport City,

. There are three rounds – Duet with the Coaches, Upbeat Showstopper, and Power Ballad. The first night has first two rounds, while the second night has the third round and the announcement of results. With the victory of Vanjoss Bayaban, he is the first 3-chair turn artist to win the Voice Kids, and the second win of Sarah Geronimo as coach (fourth win in all editions of

, and second consecutive win–continuing her streak from The Voice Teens). Coincidentally, Cyd Pangca is the second artist who returned to The Voice Kids that advanced to the finals (and also place third). ;Color Key

Television ratings

Television ratings for the fourth season of ''The Voice Kids'' on

were gathered from

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, where its survey ratings are gathered from urban and rural households all over the Philippines.

References

External links

''The Voice Kids'' (season 4)
Official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Voice Kids (Filipino season 4), The The Voice of the Philippines The Voice Kids (Philippine TV series) 2019 Philippine television seasons