‘The Voice’ shake up

MANILA, Philippines - What’s better than one season of The Voice per year? That’s right: two seasons in 12 months! Hot on the heels of a compelling Season 3 which crowned Team Blake’s Cassadee Pope as winner, the new season starts on April 1 (Monday), 8:10 p.m., exclusively on AXN and guaranteed to shake things up in a big way.During the finale, the coaches’ tender rendition of Green Day’s Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) struck a chord with many fans, and finally set the coaches’ exit in stone for the next season. Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green are taking a brief respite from the show for career commitments, while R&B superstar Usher and the Latina, hip-shaking Shakira, will step in to fill the void. The Voice clinched four Emmy nods in 2012, and as the only music reality series to be nominated in the category last year, the show beat out rival American Idol, the first time in 10 years Idol has been left off the ballot! In 2011, the novel vocal talent reality series first made waves in the entertainment industry with its refreshing approach to sieving musical talents — by having the four judges on spinning red chairs, back-faced to the talents so that they only rely on their ears. Now in its fourth season, the highly popular reality series continues to be helmed by host Carson Daly. Coming this March, within a week of the US premiere, is the Asian premiere of The Voice Season 4. We, like all other fans of the show out there, are excited about the radical new possibilities the new coach line-up will bring to the show — who will discover the next big talent? Will the Adam-Blake bromance become a triumvirate? And of course: who will fulfill the now-requisite quota of cleavage exposure?Christina and Cee Lo, you will be very much missed.

The Voice Season 4 premieres April 1, every Monday and Tuesday at 8:10 p.m. First and exclusively on AXN.