Voice Kids India 2016 was the first of similar talent shows we began to watch, quite accidentally, and missed only a few moments of the beginning, but caught on later. Lucky, because this was a supremely talented batch, and it seemed a pity that the program couldn't improvise as per needs but had to stick to the format, which amounted to limited choices, forced eliminations regularly and no going back if someone was not selected due to a mistake. There were sixty auditions, and of the six left out, three deserved to be chosen. Next, battle rounds forced out two thirds of the selected, and that seemed too short a time, with several very impressive candidates going home. But most of the remaining were still very good, and over a dozen very impressive, there being very little personal favouritism and none of political or otherwise enforced choices of lesser contestants to win, which we saw on some of the subsequent shows.
What a wonderful experience it has been, seeing the amazingly talented children from every small and large town of India, with their aspirations, smiles, trust, and innocence - wish it were never ending!
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We almost missed this, caught it next day, and were hooked! Riya was such a doll in this, and then gave so mind blowing a performance in her last one a couple of weeks ago, so very heart and soul poured into a song that instantly transported one way above! But the face shown here is of the very capable, powerful, musically talented and well trained Shanmukhapriya, truly gifted. It was a shock she was voted out, but the later the episode the tougher the choices for everyone!
http://www.thevoicekidsindia.com/videos/the-voice-india-kids-episode-1-july-23-2016-full-episode.html
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Coach Shekhar Sells A Bag To Riya - The Voice India Kids 2016
The unforgettable Riya!
Riya Biswas was the first contestant and one can still see her in memories. It's still there on YT in a video that performance, and her naive innocence with naughty goon persona won everyone, in this and in a later show.
This YT video is only half of the entire hilarious interaction where she bargained over a handbag - she was very fond of handbags, had several, and was endearing at her still child persona always with a different handbag slung over her shoulder - but worth a look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PeSBvNDsqU
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Riya Biswas was adorable, and the coaches called her their little Asha Bhosale, but I was won over with two episodes, one where she showed her bargaining skills, and another more seriously with a performance.
This was a very unexpected choice of a song, one I hadn't heard before or not noticed it, and it was startling, with the transformation in her as she sang.
All her performances were good, level never dropped, but this was a completely different plane, mind blowing! One gets the sudden conviction hearing her here that this, this is it, this is what how Love is supposed to be! If there were technical shortcomings, they didn't matter, and if someone heard those, that person missed the fantastic quality she brought this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Esd6P3wug
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Miss her one hundred handbags as we have watched her blossoming forth post her last performance in this with the soul awakening rendition of Mere Dil Mein Jagah. She has and continues to develop into a noteworthy singer capable of a variety of genre, and justified the Voice judge Shekhar calling her his little Asha Bhonsle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXKHl1juYSQ
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Little Riya Biswas in her last performance in VoiceOfIndiaKids2016 sang it so filled with heart!
So then one had to goo look for the song, with its amazing lyrics and gentle music.
Sapna jahan dastak na de
Chaukhat thi woh aankhein meri
Baaton se thi tadaad mein
Khamoshiyan zyaada meri
Jabse pade tere kadam
Chalne lagi duniya meri
Mere dil mein jagah Khuda ki khaali thi
Dekha wahan pe aaj tera chehra hai
Main bhatakta huaa sa ek baadal hoon
Jo tere aasmaan pe aake thehra hai
Tu rooh hai toh main kaaya banu
Taa-umr main tera saaya banu
Keh de toh ban jaaun bairaag main
Kehde toh main teri maaya banu
Tu saaz hai, main ragini
Tu raat hai, main chandni
Mere dil mein jagah Khuda ki khali thi
Dekha wahan pe aaj tera chehra hai
Main bhatakta huaa sa ek baadal hoon
Jo tere aasmaan pe aake thehra hai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvj827SqHak
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Nishtha Sharma Blind Audition Voice India kids 2016
What khadoos stops audio of this from being complete! It was delightful when Shekhar sang for her spontaneously! And she deserved the accolades from the thrilled coaches and others, guests on show, this time and every single time thereafter! Shekhar singing for her was worth hearing.
When one heard Nishtha for the first time, instantly one knew she was perfect, as did the coaches, and one knew their homage was only due, that time and every single time she sang thereafter - she was the consistent voice that flowed like river of pure gold with diamonds sprinkled throughout the stream in her sargam! One knew she merely deserved it if she won, but that was less relevant - what was more was that for first time since Lata Mangeshkar arrived on scene of Indian music, the question of "Who after Lata Mangeshkar" seems to have a fitting answer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlmBpm3CucE
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Nishta Sharma - Liveshows - Episode 15 - September 10, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
When one heard Nishtha for the first time, instantly one knew she was perfect, as did the coaches, and one knew their homage was only due, that time and every single time she sang thereafter - she was the consistent voice that flowed like river of pure gold with diamonds sprinkled throughout the stream in her sargam! One knew she merely deserved it if she won, but that was less relevant - what was more was that for first time since Lata Mangeshkar arrived on scene of Indian music, the question of "Who after Lata Mangeshkar" seems to have a fitting answer!
And here, she is in a virtual jugalbandi with the great Manna Dey! One hears her, recalls him simultaneously, and wow she does not lose!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAcPwnn3oMw
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Nishtha Sharma had been very impressive from the moment she sang, and she sang so well, such difficult classical pieces! Her coach called her her Sargam Queen, and it was sort of a diminutive nickname, Nishtha Sharma floored audience every time.
And here is one non classical but sung just as beautifully by Nishtha Sharma - she can rock, too! Only, when someone can do what she can, this is more of a vacation from her level of music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Tt2hCPP4o
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One of the many contestants who were known celebrities as kids, was Shivam, from Gujarat. With good reason, too, he was not just good, he was giving public performances since he was three!
Shivam definitely was one of the best, along with a dozen others, and ought to have been at at least quarter finals if not further, and but for the Caprice of voting he might have reached it. That this was his best performance on the Voice of India Kids 2016 perhaps was a factor, since not everyone voting would necessarily know he could do better than his last performance in Live Auditions. Hope he returns another year and goes further, but in any case his future in music in India should be steller!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wss0E5h-jWA
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Shivam Singh - Blind Audition - Episode 7 - August 13, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
Superb in several ways - chiefly, expression, but that's because that is the mist important part here; Shivam rightly does superbly the musical part but it's most casually done, while the key part, expression of ardent devotion, takes the forefront and permeates the whole performance.
Sometimes, when one has seen more than one performance of the composition, and one keeps returning to one in particular, and all others pale, one begins to see the subtle and the obvious factors clearer. That happened with several of the Voice India Kids 2016 performances., including this one. Others while winning accolades and prizes weren't quite up to the mark set by the kids of VIK 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wss0E5h-jWA
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What a cutie, and still no difference, same innocence! Same musical talent, only more polished now. Total Cutie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNqPzLUucCU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h5P-bOZbV3M
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WV1xD3DtUc0
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0-pM1dafttE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bv1dDX9hUtI
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hYHlhOoiI2I
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XvwDe4-HmtI
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8nOzrLvozh0
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eshdUUOm9II
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HSvoavF6irE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yps3C4dImXg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9wCGUeGTfo
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Shrishti Chakraborty - Blind Audition - Episode 3 - July 30, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
Sweet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHFeof7cl4A
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One of the celebrity children in the show, Srishti Chakraborty was a Bengali- from Gujarat! She had won state competitions, and she brought out a sweetness in this song that is entirely hers, apart from being obviously accomplished! And this entire season one saw a whole kaleidoscope of family dynamics - accomplished parents who have taught children, parents who have sacrificed to nurture the childrens' talent, parents going through the nervous moments before selection, the entire spectrum! Here her closeness with her mother who supports her self-effacingly was touching!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHFeof7cl4A
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Very talented, very accomplished, Srishti Chakraborty is another future Kavita Krishnamurti!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPNNTWuV3J4
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Still remember her grandmother's tears moving everyone! Very talented, very accomplished, Srishti Chakraborty is another future Kavita Krishnamurti!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbvBwwKXsO4
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Misimi Bose was one of the best, although her performance levels varied unlike Nishtha Sharma - but this performance was unquestionably the best of the season! Hope she goes on to shine in Indian music, and we hear more of this from her!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GJTwAf6R4Y
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Aratrika Bhattacharya - Blind Audition - Episode 9 - August 20, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
This one deserves to go further.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHMDoxaubJc
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As talented and accomplished a singer and performer as Vishwaprasad is, this song needed a slightly more mature or an emotional performance (an Arnab Sarkar or a Shayan Panchadhyayi would bring that quality, although they are too young too to have maturity of age and experience needed for this song), to bring out the nuances of this song, and this was a crucial performance in that he was on public vote for the first time! If this had been one of his forte, instead, he might have been in finals! People who voted on strength of this performance might not have heard, or might have forgotten, his earlier three awesome ones - Jhanak Jhanak for sheer musical performance, Emotional Atyachar for rockstar quality, and Yek Chatura Naar for combining the two facets while doing all three voices of that song! He was amongst the top dozen that was eliminated last before finals, so he had a longer run than others of this caliber such as Shivam, Misimi, Shanmukhapriya, Srishti Chakraborty, ... hopefully he will go on to be a star in music in India, hopefully in classical and light both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e93GKC45Ojc
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Neha Niharika Kar brought an innocence to this song that, when one watches it in its original form as the film song, one realises why one didn't like it until this performance by this sweet teen. Nice! Next Geeta Dutt?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb2zHuIdh8c
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Pooja Insa's Dil Se was better than original! The film of course was ridiculous, both in every premise and in picturisation of most songs, especially the more celebrated ones. But here, with someone so simple from so poor a background - her father is a daily wage labourer, and she couldn't afford music training either, but her mom had sold her small jewellery treasure to buy this talented daughter a harmonium! - so her singing it so purely with all her heart, one heard it, purely as a song, in all its beauty of lyrics and music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSo9laO6wSc
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With Kavya Limaye, the lovely shy girl from beautiful Baroda - Vadodara, its original name - one always got the suspicion that one is looking at an iceberg, far more in depth than one is allowed to see! Her parents are both music teachers, they run their own school, she is trained by them, and her mother praised her classical performance, speaking as her teacher! But Kavya Limaye stuck to rockstar performances, and never gave a classical one, or even one remotely close. Perhaps she is reserving that for serious concerts. It took one another year to realise with a startling look back, that the impressive subsequent performances of Shanmukhapriya, another contestant who went on to be celebrated with good reason on another show, were already oh-so-effortlessly, so self effacingly more than matched by this girl already on this show!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m273NyBedwA
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Beautiful Ridipta, beautiful Assam, beautiful story of family striving, beautiful performances!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXjZGVFqGRc
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54 were selected, but at least two or three others deserved it as well, and Laasya - Laasya Sri Vaishnavi Chodavarapu, to give the full name of this little girl, exploding with talent - tops that list! Her level of accomplishment at such a small age compares with achievements of Shivam singing at young age! She should go far in music in India.
This video at this link is no longer around, and it's a pity, if one hasn't heard this. Her sister had already been selected, and the only reason she wasn't graced with a coach turning was, nobody realised this was the little girl, she sounded far too well trained! Also, it was later, so they weren't quite as eager, teams were getting full.
https://youtu.be/mFGcS_Y9fVA
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Tejas Kar went through on sheer natural talent, he needs rigorous training to go any further than playback light film songs, but he has capability - if trained and worked at it which everyone talented nevertheless must do, he can go much further than film playback or light music performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAh803aBKxw
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If only &tv extended the time frame, and changed the format to give a longer time, such talented kids need not be out all too soon, as it happened here with Chetan Bharanga and some others in battle rounds. He is really good, and deserved more! But given the format the coaches must keep only one out of three in the first rounds, and this should be changed!
Chetan Bharanga tried on the same show next year, as did a few other kids, and was selected, like a few others but not all, and lost again in the battle rounds. Still, he got known, for talent.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SfVKvNOBAqI
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Abhijat Bhatt - Blind Audition - Episode 8 - August 14, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
Here is someone who was good, and lost only due to format of battle rounds, and a good reason amongst many others (Utkarsha Wankhede, Shreya and Aratrika, Shayan Panchadhyayi, Arnab Sarkar come to mind - and too Neha Kene, and more), to rethink the format and drop the battle rounds or push them to ay quarterfinals! Abhijat Bhatta must have had rigorous musical training as traditional for most in South, evident in his performance despite his choice of a rockstar style and not more suitable for show of his classical music training - and if only Abhijat Bhatta were not seen as rockstar category, perhaps he might have survived the battle rounds! Deserves more, hope he tries again and succeeds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6VXbg-CrDw
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Shanmukhapriya was just another of this very talented batch, until she sang O Humdum Suniyo Re, and electrified the whole stage and audience, with the effect continuing past the performance. Unfortunately that video isn't available on YT and what one can see is her attempted recreation of it on another show where she brought down the house almost every time with yet another smashing performance with another new offering, but somehow that son on this show had an effect that was not more than the subsequent performance of the same song.
Doing this so gently after the dhamaal of O Hamdam Suniyo Re, simply amazing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrDx0Z83wnw
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Priyanshi Srivastav was always sweet, but this was another level! No other performance of this song, including the original, by anyone else has measured up to this one since, and all those were very good artists too!
Her other songs were generally with delicate grace but full of joy, and one remembers her most with her dancing Garba along with singing Dhol Baaje, other than this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYoijm3nejU
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WOW!!!
He was, is, very close second to Nishtha Sharma and has more variety, is superb at everything he sang. There were too many good kids on this show this year, including some who were out in battle rounds, and little Laasya who was omitted from selection by mistake, and even there a dozen easily were superlative, and he was amongst the top half a dozen. But he should do well in life, studies and music, and one contest matters little in the grand scheme of things. He is known, as it is, now. But he is good at studies too and will hopefully do well in every way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhZdLQE6pkU
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Shayon Biswas - Blind Audition - Episode 3 - July 30, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
Delightful episode, and still fresh in memory, especially the temptation of the kid by Shaan! Maachhbhaat khaawaabo kintu, aalubhaat, ..! By the way where is video of the other kid Shaayon Panchaadhyaayi? He sang with Shaan as he wanted to!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADAiKDhPuMU
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Nishtha was superlative musically in every performance of hers, and this was no exception, even without the awesome sargam that is her prowess. Here she showed she could do what other contestants - Misimi Bose for example - did, just as easily, and more.
This song is far more than its original, and not merely because of the added musical value, but the sheer innocence, the purity she brings it!
When this episode aired first, those of us addicted to Nishtha's usual Niagaras of the cascading notes she always treated listeners to, were slightly disappointed, but we understood her coach needed to show the less understanding part of the audience that her prowess had variety. But on a revisit, oh what a treat she makes even this song, so much more music, so much innocence!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTJVVG0yleQ
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Ankita Bhattacharyya - Blind Audition - Episode 2 - July 24, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
Shekhar remarks about Ankita Bhattacharya being fantastic.
Fantastic indeed! Beauty of her singing more than matches the beauty of her homeland, and that's highly non trivial. Hope she does well in life and in music, and is happy.
Responding to a comment below the original video about Ankita Bhattacharya being the only contestant trained in classical music -
You are saying this in response to someone who didn't say that, and it isn't true either. Most of them, including those that sang modern stuff, are trained in classical music and what's more she isn't the only one who performed with a classical music song.
Responding to a comment below the original video about Bengal:-
Bengal, chiefly due to influence of various reformers a century and more ago, and specifically due to Tagore family's influence as far as arts and music go, did flower hugely. Hindi belt and North suffered from repression that did not allow education or freedom for women and usually caragorised pergormance arts as not for respectable family people, so that flowering of education and music, performance arts etc came late and didn't prosper as much in proportion, except some princely states. But factory is a word more appropriate for South, where children are sent to learn music and dance as routinely and early as going to school, both go together until their talents or lack thereof decide matters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FxunM9HZ1o
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Vishwaprasad, Shreyas and Tejas - The Battles - Episode 13-September 03, 2016-The Voice India Kids
All three contestants here were good, in their respective auditions and here. But the one with perhaps a slight edge even here, is Vishwaprasad Ganagi. And his subsequent performances showed that at the very least, the selection by coach to keep him wasn't wrong. His performances were - WOW!!! If others were just as good, and that might very well prove to be so in future, hope they all do, still, at least selecting him was within the format a good decision, and any unfair nature there was fault of the format, not perception of the coach.
He was, is, very close second to Nishtha Sharma and has more variety, is superb at everything he sang. There were too many good kids on this show this year, including some who were out in battle rounds, and little Laasya who was omitted from selection by mistake, and even there a dozen easily were superlative, and he was amongst the top half a dozen. But he should do well in life, studies and music, and one contest matters little in the grand scheme of things. He is known, as it is, now. But he is good at studies too and will hopefully do well in every way.
This time in Voice India kids 2016 had a huge number of really good contestants, sixty in blind auditions and fifty four selected, and at least one more deserved it! The format eliminates all but eighteen in the next rounds of battles, so naturally lot of good ones were out. Depending on how many of contestants are above the average, the format should be made flexible enough to carry on with the kids that deserve it due to talent. One can easily count a dozen who one wishes had gone on, or even two dozen, but it's not possible to say who went on that did not deserve it! Often enough, one saw the talent of someone much later suddenly in a performance with a revelation of just what the coaches knew!
So in short, one is glad one saw these kids, and was fortunate enough to have heard them. Hope that they all do well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smFJO54-zV4
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Jyotsna Gokhale
VoiceOfIndiaKids2016
Aug 24, 2017
Shayon, Pooja and Abhijat - The Battles - Episode 11 - August 27, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
Some time post this, the coaches explained how Pooja Insa had the steepest learning graph, and moreover had had no prior training. What with her background and the hard life and the sacrifices her parents made for her talent support, she not only needed but also deserved every support from the Voice India, and one ought to be glad she did well.
The other two are certainly good, and one is glad one heard them and knew them before they are famous tomorrow, but they are well supported and will do well, whether they continued here or otherwise. What's more one is from Bangalore and other from Calcutta, both culturally rich, especially in music. So if they don't do well in music it will be only due to their priorities and choices. But do well they shall, whether in music or another field, and hope that they do.
This time in Voice India kids 2016 had a huge number of really good contestants, sixty in blind auditions and fifty four selected, and at least one more deserved it! The format eliminates all but eighteen in the next rounds of battles, so naturally lot of good ones were out. Depending on how many of contestants are above the average, the format should be made flexible enough to carry on with the kids that deserve it due to talent. One can easily count a dozen who one wishes had gone on, or even two dozen, but it's not possible to say who went on that did not deserve it! Often enough, one saw the talent of someone much later suddenly in a performance with a revelation of just what the coaches knew!
So in short, one is glad one saw these kids, and was fortunate enough to have heard them. Hope that they all do well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7-sXkrrKEw
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Attaluri Pravasthi - O Sajan Bharkha Bahar - Liveshows - Episode 18 - The Voice India Kids
One recalls being very surprised when she was voted out, and it began to be clear voting wasn't a good measure of talent! It has since been proven so, over and over, across different talent contests of music.
Attaluri Pravasthi sang beautifully, from her first audition on, but this one was height of what the viewers saw! She is a close second to Nishtha Sharma as contender for answer to "who after Lata Mangeshkar". And yet, her coach, Shaan, who was visibly shocked and in tears when she was voted out, said that the viewers had no clue what she was capable of! He was still discovering, himself!
Perhaps it's high time this voting and compulsory eliminations were done away with, and judgements were by sheer talent while those that aren't eliminated learn from coaches. Voice India kids 2016 had fifty four selected and at least one more deserved selection going by talent alone. Battle rounds to eliminate two third were brutal and unnecessary, and much loss of talent occured right there.
Without a doubt, when one recalls the voice kids of 2016, and begins to name who should have been in semifinals, there are somewhere between half a dozen to two dozen names. And Attaluri Pravasthi's name is always there. Along with Vishwaprasad Ganagi, Misimi Bose, Srishti Chakraborty, and a few that reached close to semifinals as Pravasthi did, another few that didn't get quite that far.
Anyway, it's one contest, and in the larger scheme of things, what's more important is that she blossoms in life and in music, and everything she wishes. Hope she does, and if she becomes known in music, it's the afficionados that benefit from hearing, it's India that benefits. Hope all these kids blossom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S8hnzcy9w8
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Tiger Meets Rhino - The Voice India Kids 2016
Incredibly sweet, she deserves to go far along success in music in India. Beautiful eyes, by the way.
Wonder how she and Jayas together would be!
Responding to a comment below the original video about her being out:-
Shaan was shocked when she was voted out, he was in tears. Public voting system! He said people had no idea what she was capable of, he was just discovering!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ3diAlic-s
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Abhilasha Sneha - Blind Audition - Episode 1 - July 23, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
Cute kid, but needs more training if going for music seriously. As it is her level was good enough for, say, a local neighbourhood or school event where there aren't any serious considerations for music training.
The judges couldn't have taken everyone, six rejections were in the pipeline unless everyone was impossible to reject. Even Protiksha Borthakur who is much better than this kid was not taken, and was told to come back with more training another year. The one serious mistake was about little Laasya, whose level of singing gave no clue she was far younger than her singing led the judges to expect.
But blind auditions are the only fair way to judge quality of music without being swayed by cuteness or otherwise. Even last century there were at least two names at top in music whose singing sounded far better when audience looking at them, as was tacitly acknowledged but largely unspoken well known fact.
As to the comments below the video with allegations re racism being cause of the judges not selecting her, nothing could be more asinine! One had to be blind and out of touch with people to not know that here the judges don't see the contestants until their individual decision is made and chair has turned. Voices don't sound green or blue according to race, and this girl's diction wasn't regional in this song, if ever. She could be from anywhere in India and neighbourhood, going by her song without looking at her.
India moreover isn't a race, and is true of most parts of India with possible exceptions of remote corners, if any. Truth of this can be seen in for example films and stardom in India. If India were racist, it would be Tom Alter and not Rajanikant who would be superstar, and dozens of such examples can be seen. And while India hasn't discriminated against those with light colourings of face, eyes or hair, which is to say they had as much chance as possible, this is even more so of other examples. There have been people not only from Nepal and Northeast, but Sikkim and Burma, too, in mainstream. Their statures differ according to their capabilities and more, but not about race.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmGx_Ne5yac
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Singers from The Voice India Kids sing Vande Mataram
Three superb facets together - the beautiful song, the kids singing it all together so well, and one being able to see and hear them all together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbbRwH56yT4
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Arnabh Sarkar - Blind Audition - Episode 8 - August 14, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
Unforgettable rendition of the old favourite!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oQOnrEU9oo
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Vishwaprasad shows his Karate Skills - The Voice India Kids 2016
Superb!
Responding to a comment below the original yt video about Srishti Rawat being eliminated being justified because she was never confident:-
She lost her mother to cancer just before battle rounds, it was a shock even to tv viewers at home! What the little girl was going through, fullfilling her mummy's dream, one cant begin to imagine. Confidence? She smiled through it all, but the pain was veiled thinly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEzwqiESp2k
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A Performance By Neeti And Sugandha - The Voice Kids India 2016
Superb, beyond perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtyzbK7_tzI
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Vishwaprasad Ganagi - Rang De Basanti - Liveshows - Episode 27 - The Voice India Kids 2016
Lovely kid. Very talented.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VfyvAMWoLXc
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Nishta Sharma - Liveshows - Episode 15 - September 10, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
This was the most superlative performance from the little girl who never ceased to amaze, and this amazement was universal in the studio too - the guest ran to lift her and assure everybody he'd always remember this, Shekhar put her for the second time in the judges chair, and more. And all this was well deserved.
Since then one has heard other contestants, on various shows, sing this, but never better.
Reflecting over these last two years of having stumbled into listening to these music programs with exposes of fresh talents, while one is hearing this for the nth time, there are several thoughts - grateful to whatever chance or heaven's way of a reward it was that had one stumble into it, that too through this particular one, so scintillating a collection of talented kids, to begin with; and then, hearing Nishtha Sharma especially in this performance, a clarity that she is the Koh-e-Noor of this group, even of the whole bunch one heard in various programs.
Carrying the analogy further, one could name some morè of the talents. There are the Star of Africa and Tiffany and Hope and Centenary diamonds, and Bismarck Sapphire, and some soft glowing pearls - but the talents are numerous and lists of gems shorter! How rich is India, how fortunate we to have heard these kids! Nishtha Sharma, Niyam Kanungo, Jayas Kumar, Ishaan Tangirala, Vishwaprasad Ganagi, Niharika Nath, Attaluri Pravasthi, Mismi Bose, Shivam Singh, Priyanshi, Kavya Limaye, Shanmukhapriya, Riya Biswas, Srishti Chakravarti, Aratrika, Ankita Bhattacharya, Mythili Thakur, Hemant Brijwasi, Ameya Date, .....the list has somewhere between sixty and a hundred names! Gems, all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAcPwnn3oMw
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Nishtha Sharma was always superb, and this was one of those performances in the series where one liked the song much more due to a kid performing it so superlatively - that quality was brought by some of the other kids too to their renditions of various songs, not necessarily every time like Nishtha Sharma necessarily but still!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG6Hi68BTGQ
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Nishtha Sharma - Paan Khaaye Saiyya - Liveshows - Episode 24 - The Voice India Kids
She sang it far more beautifully than one could have expected, for a simple reason - she (and other wonderful kid's of voice India 2016) made everything they sang their own, so there there is an innocence of the plaintive returned to the song originally performed as a dancers entertainment item, which was rather refreshing. Add to that her superb rendition of music, and she turned a silver ornament into a platinum and diamond one! And this, with the original song being from a Mangeshkar, who can only be compared to one another at most!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTJVVG0yleQ
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Nishtha Sharma and Vishwaprasad Ganagi were, arguably, two not only of the best but almost equally matched at top of this contest towards the finale, and not just because many close competitors had been voted out or lost in battle rounds.
This performance was their own special treat for the show, the coaches, the kids and guests and everybody, a surprise they had arranged. And what a treat!
These two together, almost as fabulous a treat as Lata Mangeshkar and Manna Dey! This bringing together such fantastically talented children from all sorts of small and large places in India was one of the great things of this season's voice kids program. Hope one will hear them much more, individually and together!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AzVXuGVTtE
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What a wonderful experience it has been, seeing the amazingly talented children from every small and large town of India, with their aspirations, smiles, trust, and innocence - wish it were never ending!
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We almost missed this, caught it next day, and were hooked! Riya was such a doll in this, and then gave so mind blowing a performance in her last one a couple of weeks ago, so very heart and soul poured into a song that instantly transported one way above! But the face shown here is of the very capable, powerful, musically talented and well trained Shanmukhapriya, truly gifted. It was a shock she was voted out, but the later the episode the tougher the choices for everyone!
http://www.thevoicekidsindia.com/videos/the-voice-india-kids-episode-1-july-23-2016-full-episode.html
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Coach Shekhar Sells A Bag To Riya - The Voice India Kids 2016
The unforgettable Riya!
Riya Biswas was the first contestant and one can still see her in memories. It's still there on YT in a video that performance, and her naive innocence with naughty goon persona won everyone, in this and in a later show.
This YT video is only half of the entire hilarious interaction where she bargained over a handbag - she was very fond of handbags, had several, and was endearing at her still child persona always with a different handbag slung over her shoulder - but worth a look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PeSBvNDsqU
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Riya Biswas was adorable, and the coaches called her their little Asha Bhosale, but I was won over with two episodes, one where she showed her bargaining skills, and another more seriously with a performance.
This was a very unexpected choice of a song, one I hadn't heard before or not noticed it, and it was startling, with the transformation in her as she sang.
All her performances were good, level never dropped, but this was a completely different plane, mind blowing! One gets the sudden conviction hearing her here that this, this is it, this is what how Love is supposed to be! If there were technical shortcomings, they didn't matter, and if someone heard those, that person missed the fantastic quality she brought this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Esd6P3wug
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Miss her one hundred handbags as we have watched her blossoming forth post her last performance in this with the soul awakening rendition of Mere Dil Mein Jagah. She has and continues to develop into a noteworthy singer capable of a variety of genre, and justified the Voice judge Shekhar calling her his little Asha Bhonsle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXKHl1juYSQ
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Little Riya Biswas in her last performance in VoiceOfIndiaKids2016 sang it so filled with heart!
So then one had to goo look for the song, with its amazing lyrics and gentle music.
Sapna jahan dastak na de
Chaukhat thi woh aankhein meri
Baaton se thi tadaad mein
Khamoshiyan zyaada meri
Jabse pade tere kadam
Chalne lagi duniya meri
Mere dil mein jagah Khuda ki khaali thi
Dekha wahan pe aaj tera chehra hai
Main bhatakta huaa sa ek baadal hoon
Jo tere aasmaan pe aake thehra hai
Tu rooh hai toh main kaaya banu
Taa-umr main tera saaya banu
Keh de toh ban jaaun bairaag main
Kehde toh main teri maaya banu
Tu saaz hai, main ragini
Tu raat hai, main chandni
Mere dil mein jagah Khuda ki khali thi
Dekha wahan pe aaj tera chehra hai
Main bhatakta huaa sa ek baadal hoon
Jo tere aasmaan pe aake thehra hai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvj827SqHak
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Nishtha Sharma Blind Audition Voice India kids 2016
What khadoos stops audio of this from being complete! It was delightful when Shekhar sang for her spontaneously! And she deserved the accolades from the thrilled coaches and others, guests on show, this time and every single time thereafter! Shekhar singing for her was worth hearing.
When one heard Nishtha for the first time, instantly one knew she was perfect, as did the coaches, and one knew their homage was only due, that time and every single time she sang thereafter - she was the consistent voice that flowed like river of pure gold with diamonds sprinkled throughout the stream in her sargam! One knew she merely deserved it if she won, but that was less relevant - what was more was that for first time since Lata Mangeshkar arrived on scene of Indian music, the question of "Who after Lata Mangeshkar" seems to have a fitting answer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlmBpm3CucE
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Nishta Sharma - Liveshows - Episode 15 - September 10, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
When one heard Nishtha for the first time, instantly one knew she was perfect, as did the coaches, and one knew their homage was only due, that time and every single time she sang thereafter - she was the consistent voice that flowed like river of pure gold with diamonds sprinkled throughout the stream in her sargam! One knew she merely deserved it if she won, but that was less relevant - what was more was that for first time since Lata Mangeshkar arrived on scene of Indian music, the question of "Who after Lata Mangeshkar" seems to have a fitting answer!
And here, she is in a virtual jugalbandi with the great Manna Dey! One hears her, recalls him simultaneously, and wow she does not lose!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAcPwnn3oMw
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Nishtha Sharma had been very impressive from the moment she sang, and she sang so well, such difficult classical pieces! Her coach called her her Sargam Queen, and it was sort of a diminutive nickname, Nishtha Sharma floored audience every time.
And here is one non classical but sung just as beautifully by Nishtha Sharma - she can rock, too! Only, when someone can do what she can, this is more of a vacation from her level of music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Tt2hCPP4o
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One of the many contestants who were known celebrities as kids, was Shivam, from Gujarat. With good reason, too, he was not just good, he was giving public performances since he was three!
Shivam definitely was one of the best, along with a dozen others, and ought to have been at at least quarter finals if not further, and but for the Caprice of voting he might have reached it. That this was his best performance on the Voice of India Kids 2016 perhaps was a factor, since not everyone voting would necessarily know he could do better than his last performance in Live Auditions. Hope he returns another year and goes further, but in any case his future in music in India should be steller!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wss0E5h-jWA
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Shivam Singh - Blind Audition - Episode 7 - August 13, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
Superb in several ways - chiefly, expression, but that's because that is the mist important part here; Shivam rightly does superbly the musical part but it's most casually done, while the key part, expression of ardent devotion, takes the forefront and permeates the whole performance.
Sometimes, when one has seen more than one performance of the composition, and one keeps returning to one in particular, and all others pale, one begins to see the subtle and the obvious factors clearer. That happened with several of the Voice India Kids 2016 performances., including this one. Others while winning accolades and prizes weren't quite up to the mark set by the kids of VIK 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wss0E5h-jWA
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What a cutie, and still no difference, same innocence! Same musical talent, only more polished now. Total Cutie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNqPzLUucCU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h5P-bOZbV3M
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WV1xD3DtUc0
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0-pM1dafttE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bv1dDX9hUtI
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hYHlhOoiI2I
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XvwDe4-HmtI
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8nOzrLvozh0
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eshdUUOm9II
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HSvoavF6irE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yps3C4dImXg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9wCGUeGTfo
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Shrishti Chakraborty - Blind Audition - Episode 3 - July 30, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
Sweet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHFeof7cl4A
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One of the celebrity children in the show, Srishti Chakraborty was a Bengali- from Gujarat! She had won state competitions, and she brought out a sweetness in this song that is entirely hers, apart from being obviously accomplished! And this entire season one saw a whole kaleidoscope of family dynamics - accomplished parents who have taught children, parents who have sacrificed to nurture the childrens' talent, parents going through the nervous moments before selection, the entire spectrum! Here her closeness with her mother who supports her self-effacingly was touching!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHFeof7cl4A
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Very talented, very accomplished, Srishti Chakraborty is another future Kavita Krishnamurti!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPNNTWuV3J4
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Still remember her grandmother's tears moving everyone! Very talented, very accomplished, Srishti Chakraborty is another future Kavita Krishnamurti!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbvBwwKXsO4
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Misimi Bose was one of the best, although her performance levels varied unlike Nishtha Sharma - but this performance was unquestionably the best of the season! Hope she goes on to shine in Indian music, and we hear more of this from her!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GJTwAf6R4Y
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Aratrika Bhattacharya - Blind Audition - Episode 9 - August 20, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
This one deserves to go further.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHMDoxaubJc
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As talented and accomplished a singer and performer as Vishwaprasad is, this song needed a slightly more mature or an emotional performance (an Arnab Sarkar or a Shayan Panchadhyayi would bring that quality, although they are too young too to have maturity of age and experience needed for this song), to bring out the nuances of this song, and this was a crucial performance in that he was on public vote for the first time! If this had been one of his forte, instead, he might have been in finals! People who voted on strength of this performance might not have heard, or might have forgotten, his earlier three awesome ones - Jhanak Jhanak for sheer musical performance, Emotional Atyachar for rockstar quality, and Yek Chatura Naar for combining the two facets while doing all three voices of that song! He was amongst the top dozen that was eliminated last before finals, so he had a longer run than others of this caliber such as Shivam, Misimi, Shanmukhapriya, Srishti Chakraborty, ... hopefully he will go on to be a star in music in India, hopefully in classical and light both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e93GKC45Ojc
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Neha Niharika Kar brought an innocence to this song that, when one watches it in its original form as the film song, one realises why one didn't like it until this performance by this sweet teen. Nice! Next Geeta Dutt?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb2zHuIdh8c
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Pooja Insa's Dil Se was better than original! The film of course was ridiculous, both in every premise and in picturisation of most songs, especially the more celebrated ones. But here, with someone so simple from so poor a background - her father is a daily wage labourer, and she couldn't afford music training either, but her mom had sold her small jewellery treasure to buy this talented daughter a harmonium! - so her singing it so purely with all her heart, one heard it, purely as a song, in all its beauty of lyrics and music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSo9laO6wSc
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With Kavya Limaye, the lovely shy girl from beautiful Baroda - Vadodara, its original name - one always got the suspicion that one is looking at an iceberg, far more in depth than one is allowed to see! Her parents are both music teachers, they run their own school, she is trained by them, and her mother praised her classical performance, speaking as her teacher! But Kavya Limaye stuck to rockstar performances, and never gave a classical one, or even one remotely close. Perhaps she is reserving that for serious concerts. It took one another year to realise with a startling look back, that the impressive subsequent performances of Shanmukhapriya, another contestant who went on to be celebrated with good reason on another show, were already oh-so-effortlessly, so self effacingly more than matched by this girl already on this show!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m273NyBedwA
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Beautiful Ridipta, beautiful Assam, beautiful story of family striving, beautiful performances!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXjZGVFqGRc
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54 were selected, but at least two or three others deserved it as well, and Laasya - Laasya Sri Vaishnavi Chodavarapu, to give the full name of this little girl, exploding with talent - tops that list! Her level of accomplishment at such a small age compares with achievements of Shivam singing at young age! She should go far in music in India.
This video at this link is no longer around, and it's a pity, if one hasn't heard this. Her sister had already been selected, and the only reason she wasn't graced with a coach turning was, nobody realised this was the little girl, she sounded far too well trained! Also, it was later, so they weren't quite as eager, teams were getting full.
https://youtu.be/mFGcS_Y9fVA
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Tejas Kar went through on sheer natural talent, he needs rigorous training to go any further than playback light film songs, but he has capability - if trained and worked at it which everyone talented nevertheless must do, he can go much further than film playback or light music performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAh803aBKxw
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If only &tv extended the time frame, and changed the format to give a longer time, such talented kids need not be out all too soon, as it happened here with Chetan Bharanga and some others in battle rounds. He is really good, and deserved more! But given the format the coaches must keep only one out of three in the first rounds, and this should be changed!
Chetan Bharanga tried on the same show next year, as did a few other kids, and was selected, like a few others but not all, and lost again in the battle rounds. Still, he got known, for talent.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SfVKvNOBAqI
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Abhijat Bhatt - Blind Audition - Episode 8 - August 14, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
Here is someone who was good, and lost only due to format of battle rounds, and a good reason amongst many others (Utkarsha Wankhede, Shreya and Aratrika, Shayan Panchadhyayi, Arnab Sarkar come to mind - and too Neha Kene, and more), to rethink the format and drop the battle rounds or push them to ay quarterfinals! Abhijat Bhatta must have had rigorous musical training as traditional for most in South, evident in his performance despite his choice of a rockstar style and not more suitable for show of his classical music training - and if only Abhijat Bhatta were not seen as rockstar category, perhaps he might have survived the battle rounds! Deserves more, hope he tries again and succeeds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6VXbg-CrDw
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Shanmukhapriya was just another of this very talented batch, until she sang O Humdum Suniyo Re, and electrified the whole stage and audience, with the effect continuing past the performance. Unfortunately that video isn't available on YT and what one can see is her attempted recreation of it on another show where she brought down the house almost every time with yet another smashing performance with another new offering, but somehow that son on this show had an effect that was not more than the subsequent performance of the same song.
Doing this so gently after the dhamaal of O Hamdam Suniyo Re, simply amazing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrDx0Z83wnw
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Priyanshi Srivastav was always sweet, but this was another level! No other performance of this song, including the original, by anyone else has measured up to this one since, and all those were very good artists too!
Her other songs were generally with delicate grace but full of joy, and one remembers her most with her dancing Garba along with singing Dhol Baaje, other than this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYoijm3nejU
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WOW!!!
He was, is, very close second to Nishtha Sharma and has more variety, is superb at everything he sang. There were too many good kids on this show this year, including some who were out in battle rounds, and little Laasya who was omitted from selection by mistake, and even there a dozen easily were superlative, and he was amongst the top half a dozen. But he should do well in life, studies and music, and one contest matters little in the grand scheme of things. He is known, as it is, now. But he is good at studies too and will hopefully do well in every way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhZdLQE6pkU
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Shayon Biswas - Blind Audition - Episode 3 - July 30, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
Delightful episode, and still fresh in memory, especially the temptation of the kid by Shaan! Maachhbhaat khaawaabo kintu, aalubhaat, ..! By the way where is video of the other kid Shaayon Panchaadhyaayi? He sang with Shaan as he wanted to!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADAiKDhPuMU
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Nishtha was superlative musically in every performance of hers, and this was no exception, even without the awesome sargam that is her prowess. Here she showed she could do what other contestants - Misimi Bose for example - did, just as easily, and more.
This song is far more than its original, and not merely because of the added musical value, but the sheer innocence, the purity she brings it!
When this episode aired first, those of us addicted to Nishtha's usual Niagaras of the cascading notes she always treated listeners to, were slightly disappointed, but we understood her coach needed to show the less understanding part of the audience that her prowess had variety. But on a revisit, oh what a treat she makes even this song, so much more music, so much innocence!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTJVVG0yleQ
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Ankita Bhattacharyya - Blind Audition - Episode 2 - July 24, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
Shekhar remarks about Ankita Bhattacharya being fantastic.
Fantastic indeed! Beauty of her singing more than matches the beauty of her homeland, and that's highly non trivial. Hope she does well in life and in music, and is happy.
Responding to a comment below the original video about Ankita Bhattacharya being the only contestant trained in classical music -
You are saying this in response to someone who didn't say that, and it isn't true either. Most of them, including those that sang modern stuff, are trained in classical music and what's more she isn't the only one who performed with a classical music song.
Responding to a comment below the original video about Bengal:-
Bengal, chiefly due to influence of various reformers a century and more ago, and specifically due to Tagore family's influence as far as arts and music go, did flower hugely. Hindi belt and North suffered from repression that did not allow education or freedom for women and usually caragorised pergormance arts as not for respectable family people, so that flowering of education and music, performance arts etc came late and didn't prosper as much in proportion, except some princely states. But factory is a word more appropriate for South, where children are sent to learn music and dance as routinely and early as going to school, both go together until their talents or lack thereof decide matters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FxunM9HZ1o
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Vishwaprasad, Shreyas and Tejas - The Battles - Episode 13-September 03, 2016-The Voice India Kids
All three contestants here were good, in their respective auditions and here. But the one with perhaps a slight edge even here, is Vishwaprasad Ganagi. And his subsequent performances showed that at the very least, the selection by coach to keep him wasn't wrong. His performances were - WOW!!! If others were just as good, and that might very well prove to be so in future, hope they all do, still, at least selecting him was within the format a good decision, and any unfair nature there was fault of the format, not perception of the coach.
He was, is, very close second to Nishtha Sharma and has more variety, is superb at everything he sang. There were too many good kids on this show this year, including some who were out in battle rounds, and little Laasya who was omitted from selection by mistake, and even there a dozen easily were superlative, and he was amongst the top half a dozen. But he should do well in life, studies and music, and one contest matters little in the grand scheme of things. He is known, as it is, now. But he is good at studies too and will hopefully do well in every way.
This time in Voice India kids 2016 had a huge number of really good contestants, sixty in blind auditions and fifty four selected, and at least one more deserved it! The format eliminates all but eighteen in the next rounds of battles, so naturally lot of good ones were out. Depending on how many of contestants are above the average, the format should be made flexible enough to carry on with the kids that deserve it due to talent. One can easily count a dozen who one wishes had gone on, or even two dozen, but it's not possible to say who went on that did not deserve it! Often enough, one saw the talent of someone much later suddenly in a performance with a revelation of just what the coaches knew!
So in short, one is glad one saw these kids, and was fortunate enough to have heard them. Hope that they all do well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smFJO54-zV4
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Jyotsna Gokhale
VoiceOfIndiaKids2016
Aug 24, 2017
Shayon, Pooja and Abhijat - The Battles - Episode 11 - August 27, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
Some time post this, the coaches explained how Pooja Insa had the steepest learning graph, and moreover had had no prior training. What with her background and the hard life and the sacrifices her parents made for her talent support, she not only needed but also deserved every support from the Voice India, and one ought to be glad she did well.
The other two are certainly good, and one is glad one heard them and knew them before they are famous tomorrow, but they are well supported and will do well, whether they continued here or otherwise. What's more one is from Bangalore and other from Calcutta, both culturally rich, especially in music. So if they don't do well in music it will be only due to their priorities and choices. But do well they shall, whether in music or another field, and hope that they do.
This time in Voice India kids 2016 had a huge number of really good contestants, sixty in blind auditions and fifty four selected, and at least one more deserved it! The format eliminates all but eighteen in the next rounds of battles, so naturally lot of good ones were out. Depending on how many of contestants are above the average, the format should be made flexible enough to carry on with the kids that deserve it due to talent. One can easily count a dozen who one wishes had gone on, or even two dozen, but it's not possible to say who went on that did not deserve it! Often enough, one saw the talent of someone much later suddenly in a performance with a revelation of just what the coaches knew!
So in short, one is glad one saw these kids, and was fortunate enough to have heard them. Hope that they all do well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7-sXkrrKEw
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Attaluri Pravasthi - O Sajan Bharkha Bahar - Liveshows - Episode 18 - The Voice India Kids
One recalls being very surprised when she was voted out, and it began to be clear voting wasn't a good measure of talent! It has since been proven so, over and over, across different talent contests of music.
Attaluri Pravasthi sang beautifully, from her first audition on, but this one was height of what the viewers saw! She is a close second to Nishtha Sharma as contender for answer to "who after Lata Mangeshkar". And yet, her coach, Shaan, who was visibly shocked and in tears when she was voted out, said that the viewers had no clue what she was capable of! He was still discovering, himself!
Perhaps it's high time this voting and compulsory eliminations were done away with, and judgements were by sheer talent while those that aren't eliminated learn from coaches. Voice India kids 2016 had fifty four selected and at least one more deserved selection going by talent alone. Battle rounds to eliminate two third were brutal and unnecessary, and much loss of talent occured right there.
Without a doubt, when one recalls the voice kids of 2016, and begins to name who should have been in semifinals, there are somewhere between half a dozen to two dozen names. And Attaluri Pravasthi's name is always there. Along with Vishwaprasad Ganagi, Misimi Bose, Srishti Chakraborty, and a few that reached close to semifinals as Pravasthi did, another few that didn't get quite that far.
Anyway, it's one contest, and in the larger scheme of things, what's more important is that she blossoms in life and in music, and everything she wishes. Hope she does, and if she becomes known in music, it's the afficionados that benefit from hearing, it's India that benefits. Hope all these kids blossom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S8hnzcy9w8
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Tiger Meets Rhino - The Voice India Kids 2016
Incredibly sweet, she deserves to go far along success in music in India. Beautiful eyes, by the way.
Wonder how she and Jayas together would be!
Responding to a comment below the original video about her being out:-
Shaan was shocked when she was voted out, he was in tears. Public voting system! He said people had no idea what she was capable of, he was just discovering!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ3diAlic-s
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Abhilasha Sneha - Blind Audition - Episode 1 - July 23, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
Cute kid, but needs more training if going for music seriously. As it is her level was good enough for, say, a local neighbourhood or school event where there aren't any serious considerations for music training.
The judges couldn't have taken everyone, six rejections were in the pipeline unless everyone was impossible to reject. Even Protiksha Borthakur who is much better than this kid was not taken, and was told to come back with more training another year. The one serious mistake was about little Laasya, whose level of singing gave no clue she was far younger than her singing led the judges to expect.
But blind auditions are the only fair way to judge quality of music without being swayed by cuteness or otherwise. Even last century there were at least two names at top in music whose singing sounded far better when audience looking at them, as was tacitly acknowledged but largely unspoken well known fact.
As to the comments below the video with allegations re racism being cause of the judges not selecting her, nothing could be more asinine! One had to be blind and out of touch with people to not know that here the judges don't see the contestants until their individual decision is made and chair has turned. Voices don't sound green or blue according to race, and this girl's diction wasn't regional in this song, if ever. She could be from anywhere in India and neighbourhood, going by her song without looking at her.
India moreover isn't a race, and is true of most parts of India with possible exceptions of remote corners, if any. Truth of this can be seen in for example films and stardom in India. If India were racist, it would be Tom Alter and not Rajanikant who would be superstar, and dozens of such examples can be seen. And while India hasn't discriminated against those with light colourings of face, eyes or hair, which is to say they had as much chance as possible, this is even more so of other examples. There have been people not only from Nepal and Northeast, but Sikkim and Burma, too, in mainstream. Their statures differ according to their capabilities and more, but not about race.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmGx_Ne5yac
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Singers from The Voice India Kids sing Vande Mataram
Three superb facets together - the beautiful song, the kids singing it all together so well, and one being able to see and hear them all together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbbRwH56yT4
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Arnabh Sarkar - Blind Audition - Episode 8 - August 14, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
Unforgettable rendition of the old favourite!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oQOnrEU9oo
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Vishwaprasad shows his Karate Skills - The Voice India Kids 2016
Superb!
Responding to a comment below the original yt video about Srishti Rawat being eliminated being justified because she was never confident:-
She lost her mother to cancer just before battle rounds, it was a shock even to tv viewers at home! What the little girl was going through, fullfilling her mummy's dream, one cant begin to imagine. Confidence? She smiled through it all, but the pain was veiled thinly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEzwqiESp2k
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A Performance By Neeti And Sugandha - The Voice Kids India 2016
Superb, beyond perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtyzbK7_tzI
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Vishwaprasad Ganagi - Rang De Basanti - Liveshows - Episode 27 - The Voice India Kids 2016
Lovely kid. Very talented.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VfyvAMWoLXc
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Nishta Sharma - Liveshows - Episode 15 - September 10, 2016 - The Voice India Kids
This was the most superlative performance from the little girl who never ceased to amaze, and this amazement was universal in the studio too - the guest ran to lift her and assure everybody he'd always remember this, Shekhar put her for the second time in the judges chair, and more. And all this was well deserved.
Since then one has heard other contestants, on various shows, sing this, but never better.
Reflecting over these last two years of having stumbled into listening to these music programs with exposes of fresh talents, while one is hearing this for the nth time, there are several thoughts - grateful to whatever chance or heaven's way of a reward it was that had one stumble into it, that too through this particular one, so scintillating a collection of talented kids, to begin with; and then, hearing Nishtha Sharma especially in this performance, a clarity that she is the Koh-e-Noor of this group, even of the whole bunch one heard in various programs.
Carrying the analogy further, one could name some morè of the talents. There are the Star of Africa and Tiffany and Hope and Centenary diamonds, and Bismarck Sapphire, and some soft glowing pearls - but the talents are numerous and lists of gems shorter! How rich is India, how fortunate we to have heard these kids! Nishtha Sharma, Niyam Kanungo, Jayas Kumar, Ishaan Tangirala, Vishwaprasad Ganagi, Niharika Nath, Attaluri Pravasthi, Mismi Bose, Shivam Singh, Priyanshi, Kavya Limaye, Shanmukhapriya, Riya Biswas, Srishti Chakravarti, Aratrika, Ankita Bhattacharya, Mythili Thakur, Hemant Brijwasi, Ameya Date, .....the list has somewhere between sixty and a hundred names! Gems, all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAcPwnn3oMw
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Nishtha Sharma was always superb, and this was one of those performances in the series where one liked the song much more due to a kid performing it so superlatively - that quality was brought by some of the other kids too to their renditions of various songs, not necessarily every time like Nishtha Sharma necessarily but still!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG6Hi68BTGQ
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Nishtha Sharma - Paan Khaaye Saiyya - Liveshows - Episode 24 - The Voice India Kids
She sang it far more beautifully than one could have expected, for a simple reason - she (and other wonderful kid's of voice India 2016) made everything they sang their own, so there there is an innocence of the plaintive returned to the song originally performed as a dancers entertainment item, which was rather refreshing. Add to that her superb rendition of music, and she turned a silver ornament into a platinum and diamond one! And this, with the original song being from a Mangeshkar, who can only be compared to one another at most!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTJVVG0yleQ
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Nishtha Sharma and Vishwaprasad Ganagi were, arguably, two not only of the best but almost equally matched at top of this contest towards the finale, and not just because many close competitors had been voted out or lost in battle rounds.
This performance was their own special treat for the show, the coaches, the kids and guests and everybody, a surprise they had arranged. And what a treat!
These two together, almost as fabulous a treat as Lata Mangeshkar and Manna Dey! This bringing together such fantastically talented children from all sorts of small and large places in India was one of the great things of this season's voice kids program. Hope one will hear them much more, individually and together!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AzVXuGVTtE
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