Media Release
Doha, Sep 13: The most awaited trending and entertaining Doha Music Lovers 'Voice of World' Online singing competition ended on September 10, 2021 by finding its three winners of both Hindi and Telugu languages simultaneously.
The show has gained huge popularity among fans and viewers because the show brought new concepts for all the viewers. The first episode of the show appeared on June 13, 2021 on Channel 5 and after three months, the grand finale happened at ICC’s Ashoka Hall, Doha, Qatar under 75 years Azadika Amrit Mahotsav in coordination with ICC. The show was produced by Doha Music Lovers Group in association with Telangana Praja Samithi Qatar.
The three winners announced in Hindi were Tejaswi from California, USA, Jyotisha Santosh from Doha, Qatar and Shruthi Prabhala from Bilaspur, India. For Telugu the three winners were Medha Anantuni from Texas, USA, Geeta Lakshmi from Pennsylvania, USA and Mavuru Sravani from Vishakhapatnam, India. Many contestants are left in the show to entertain the viewers.
More than 650 singers participated in this 'Voice of World' online singing competition out of which 30 singers were shortlisted in Hindi and 30 in Telugu, it took three months to reach the finals with 10 rounds of competition in between.
The eminent dignitaries who were present at the Grand Finale are Babu Rajan ICC President was the chief guest, Krishna Kumar, general secretary of ICC, K S Prasad ICC advisory committee board chairman, Ziyad Usman, ICBF president, Vinod Nair, ICBF vice-president, Azim Abbas, IBPC immediate president, Gadde Srinivas, president of Telangana Praja Samithi Qatar, Nandini Abbagoni president of Telangana Jagruthi Qatar, Satyanarayana president of Andhra Kala Vedika, Khaja Nizamuddin, president of Telangana Welfare Association and Syed Rafi chairman of Channel 5 and director and producer of Voice of World and last but not the least Jai Prakash Singh of North Central India Group.
Talking to media Syed Rafi said that it was very difficult to decide the winners as everyone sang very well, but as it is a competition and we have to take some hard decisions, the winners were decided based on Judges votes, committee votes, elite members votes and public votes. It is one of the longest season and ended with a bang, marking a new era in online singing contest said K S Prasad of ICC advisory committee chairman.
The winners will be given cash prize of Rs 50,000; Rs 30,000 and Rs 20,000 for first, second and third positions in each language. Voice of World online singing competition was sponsored by Dana World Contracting Co Wll, Telangana Food Suncons, H P Industries, Jai Prakash Singh and by Indian Hyderabadi Spices Restaurant.
The Grand Finale witnessed spectacular performances by Doha Music Lovers Group and this program was live on youtube wherein thousands of people watched it online from various countries. Arif Rayees, Priti Vikramnath from Qatar and Srilatha Mula and Dr Vishwanatha Sridevi from India were the judges of this competition. Mohinder Jalandhary, Preeti Trivedi, Venkappa Bhagavatula and Harika were the anchors for this singing competition. The show has completed 10 rounds before the grand finale.
Speaking on the occasion Gadde Srinivas president of TPS said that they are proud to provide this kind of platform to budding artist and he thanked Syed Rafi for taking this initiative and said that he and his group will be ready to support him all the time. Sophia Bukhari appreciated the efforts taken by Syed Rafi to provide a unique platform to budding artist on an international level and said that HP Industries would be proud to be associated with these kind of programs.
Jai Prakash Singh said that its not an easy task to conduct such kind of program with so much ease and professionalism, and he said kudos to Syed Rafi and his team for surpassing all the expectations. Praveen Buyyani of Telangana Food Suncons said that he was closely watching Voice of World from the first round and he observed how the program changed from the day 1 to present with lot of technicalities, background changes, lighting effects and change of stages, he said that he never expected that these many changes can be done in any program with limited resources, he concluded saying that it was an excellent program which surpassed all the expectations.
Baburajan president of ICC said that they are ready to support this kind of programs and said that they would love people to come forward which such kind of new initiatives and he congratulated Syed Rafi for conducting such a wonderful program. The show was concluded with vote of thanks by Venkat general secretary of Telangana Praja Samithi Qatar.