X Factor (Romanian season 6)

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X Factor
Season 6
Hosted byRăzvan Simion
Dani Oțil
JudgesDelia Matache
Horia Brenciu
Ștefan Bănică, Jr.
Carla's Dreams
Crina Mardare (guest)
WinnerOlga Verbiţchi
Winning mentorCarla's Dreams
Runner-upRaul Eregep
Release
Original networkAntena 1
Original releaseSeptember 9 (2016-09-09) –
December 23, 2016 (2016-12-23)
Season chronology
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The sixth season of Romanian television music competition X Factor—based on The X Factor series—started airing on September 9, 2016 on Romanian broadcaster Antena 1. Răzvan Simion and Dani Oțil are the hosts as in the previous five seasons, with Delia Matache, Horia Brenciu and Ștefan Bănică, Jr. returning to the judging panel with the addition of Carla's Dreams as the fourth judge.[1]

Olga Verbiţchi won the competition and Carla's Dreams became the winning mentor.

Judges[]

Further information: Delia Matache

Delia Matache is a famous Romanian eurobeat singer-songwriter, TV celebrity, dancer, philanthropist, former model, fashion designer. She has started her stage music activity in 1999 in N&D music band with Nicolae Marin and had released 4 albums, and after the split off in 2003 she had released another two solo albums.

Further information: Horia Brenciu

Horia Brenciu is a Romanian singer, television host for the Romanian version of Dancing with the Stars, successful entertainer, and philanthropist. He studied at National College Andrei Şaguna from Braşov, then he continued to Şcoala Populară de Artă Braşov, at piano and canto class, and in 1998 he finished The Theater Academy in Bucharest.

Further information: Ștefan Bănică, Jr.

Ștefan Bănică, Jr. is a Romanian entertainer, of roma people origin from his father side, TV presenter, one of the most important Romanian TV personality, the son of actor Ștefan Bănică. He is well known in Romanian for presenting the Romania version of “Dancing with the Stars”, the most longevive dance competition ever aired in Romania, broadcast on Pro TV.

Further information: Carla's Dreams

Carla's Dreams is a Moldavian musical project which was started by Dobra Robertin 2012. The band is an anonymous group of singers and composers who sing in Romanian, Russian and English. During concerts, the band's vocalist, to hide his identity, wears hood and sunglasses, and his face is masked.

Established in Chișinău, Carla's Dreams combines several musical styles, including hip hop, jazz, rock and pop. The first song produced by Carla's Dreams was Dă-te ("Get Off"). Carla's Dreams has launched in Romania in 2013, along with Inna with the song P.O.H.U.I., later to sing with Loredana Lumea ta ("Your World"), and in 2015 with Delia, releasing songs Cum ne noi ("How We Us") and Da, mamă ("Yes, Mother").

Auditions[]

Cities that auditions and/or pre-auditions were held in.

Audition process was based on the British and American version. First up were "The Producer's Audition", where the producers chose singers to proceed to the second phase which was "The Audition before the Judging panel".

Summary of auditions
City Auditions date
Craiova May 5, 2016
Arad May 7, 2016
Cluj Napoca May 9, 2016
Sibiu May 12, 2016
Iași May 14, 2016
Galați May 17, 2016
Chișinău May 18, 2016
Bucharest May 21, 2016

The auditions were broadcast from 9 September 2016 until 11 November 2016. The auditions consisted in 11 episodes.

Bootcamp[]

This season, there will be four categories : Boys (14-24 years), Girls (14-24 years), Over 24s and Groups. The judges selected themselves which category they will mentor this season.

Brenciu will mentor the Over 24s, Bănică the Groups, Carla's Dream the Girls and Matache will mentor the Boys.

Complete Teams

Color key
  – Eliminated in Four-chair challenge
  – Eliminated in Duels
  – Finalist
  – Wildcard
Category (mentor) Top 40 acts
Boys
(Matache) 		Raul Eregep Emilian Nechifor Alex Mladin Johnny Bădulescu Rareş Cazacu
Andrei Petruş Dragoş Luca Răzvan Moldovan Simion Caragia Cătălin Caragea
Girls
(Carla's) 		Izabela Simion Olga Verbiţchi Miruna Pânzaru Enrica Tara Anastasia Jantîc
Lizuca Bîgu Letiţia Roman Alexandra Sîrghi Andreea Alupei Alexandra Tănăsoiu
Over 24s
(Brenciu) 		Loredana Anghelache Marcel Roşca Cezar Dometi Monica Prodea Aldo Blaga
Eliza Georgescu Anca Pârlea Marco Sentieri Radu Hârşulescu Cecilia Cesario
Groups
(Bănică) 		3 O'Clock Apollo Doredos Estera & Rebeca Răzvan & Alecu
Dorian Lupu & Cristina Baban Bogdan & Mugurel Nobil Band Crescendo Călin & Elis

Four-chair challenge[]

This season, the categories will face the four-chair challenge. From the 40 acts competing, at the end of this round, only 16 acts will go further in the competition. Also this year there will be a "Golden Chair" where a mentor can send an act directly in the live shows.

The Four-Chair Challenge was broadcast between November 18 and November 30 and consisted in 4 episodes.

Color key
  – Contestant was immediately eliminated after performance without switch
  – Contestant was switched out later in the competition and eventually eliminated
  – Contestant was not switched out and made the final four of their own category
Contestants performances on the four-chair challenge
Episode Category
(mentor)		 Act Order Song Mentor's decision Switched with
Episode 12
(November 18) 		Over 24s
(Brenciu) 		Aldo Blaga 1 "Careless Whisper" Put in chair 2 Marcel Roşca
Eliza Georgescu 2 "They Just Keep Moving the Line" Put in chair 1 Loredana Anghelache
Marco Sentieri 3 "Più bella cosa" Put in chair 3 Cezar Dometi
Anca Pârlea 4 "Vreau să vii în viaţa mea" Put in chair 4 Monica Prodea
Cecilia Cesario 5 "Try" Eliminated N/A
Radu Hârşulescu 6 "Virtual Insanity" Eliminated N/A
Cezar Dometi 7 "Never Tear Us Apart" Put in chair 3 —
Monica Prodea 8 "Love Me Tender" Put in chair 4 —
Loredana Anghelache 9 "Halo" Put in chair 1 —
Marcel Roşca 10 "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" Put in chair 2 —
Episode 13
(November 23) 		Groups
(Bănică) 		Dorian Lupu & Cristina Baban 1 "Breathe" Put in chair 4 Apollo
Doredos 2 "Fragile" Put in chair 1 —
Bogdan & Mugurel 3 "Copacul" Put in chair 2 Răzvan & Alecu
Călin & Elis 4 "Endless Love" Eliminated N/A
Crescendo 5 "We Are Young" Eliminated N/A
Nobil Band 6 "Mociriţă cu trifoi" Put in chair 3 Estera & Rebeca
Estera & Rebeca 7 "Flashlight" Put in chair 3 —
Răzvan & Alecu 8 "Don't Stop the Music" Put in chair 2 3 O'Clock
Apollo 9 "You Don't Own Me" Put in chair 4 —
3 O'Clock 10 "Cele două cuvinte" Put in chair 2 —
Episode 14
(November 25) 		Girls
(Carla's) 		Alexandra Tănăsoiu 1 "Cheap Thrills" Put in chair 1 Lizuca Bigu
Andreea Alupei 2 "Black Widow" Put in chair 2 Letiţia Roman
Miruna Pânzaru 3 "Who You Are" Put in chair 3 —
Anastasia Jantîc 4 "Dangerous Woman" Put in chair 4 Olga Verbiţchi
Lizuca Bîgu 5 "Stitches" Put in chair 1 Enrica Tara
Letiţia Roman 6 "Impossible" Put in chair 2 Izabela Simion
Alexandra Sîrghi 7 "Faded" Eliminated N/A
Izabela Simion 8 "Never Forget You" Put in chair 2 —
Enrica Tara 9 "7 Years" Put in chair 1 —
Olga Verbiţchi 10 "Take Me to Church" Put in chair 4 —
Episode 15
(November 30) 		Boys
(Matache) 		Cătălin Caragea 1 "Sex on Fire" Eliminated N/A
Simion Caragia 2 "Lost on You" Put in chair 2 Johnny Bădulescu
Andrei Petruş 3 "Photograph" Put in chair 3 Raul Eregep
Alex Mladin 4 "Sorry" Put in chair 1 —
Rareş Cazacu 5 "Marie, Marie" Put in chair 4 Emilian Nechifor
Johnny Bădulescu 6 "Earned It" Put in chair 2 —
Răzvan Moldovan 7 "Inimi Desenate" Eliminated N/A
Dragoş Luca 8 "Damn Your Eyes" Eliminated N/A
Raul Eregep 9 "I Won't Let You Go" Put in chair 3 —
Emilian Nechifor 10 "Lay Me Down" Put in chair 4 —

Duels[]

At the end of this round there will be 8 acts remaining, two for each category.

The two winners for each mentor will advance to the Live shows.

Colour key:

  - Artist won the Duel and advanced to the Live shows

  - Artist lost the Duel and was eliminated

Contestants performances on the duels challenge
Episode Category (mentor) Duel Act Order Song Result
Episode 16
(December 2) 		Boys (Matache) Duel 1 Raul Eregep 5 "A Change Is Gonna Come" Finalist
Alex Mladin 6 "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" Eliminated
Duel 2 Johnny Bădulescu 13 "De-ai fi tu salcie" Eliminated
Emilian Nechifor 14 "Make It Rain" Finalist
Girls (Carla's) Duel 1 Enrica Tara 3 "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" Eliminated
Izabela Simion 4 "Jealous" Finalist
Duel 2 Miruna Pânzaru 11 "Sledgehammer" Eliminated
Olga Verbiţchi 12 "Chandelier" Finalist
Over 24s (Brenciu) Duel 1 Cezar Dometi 15 "Caruso" Eliminated
Marcel Roşca 16 "Cât de frumoasă ești" Finalist
Duel 2 Monica Prodea 7 "Back to Black" Eliminated
Loredana Anghelache 8 "Iubirea Schimbă Tot" Finalist
Groups (Bănică) Duel 1 3 O'Clock 9 "Candyman" Finalist
Doredos 10 "The Swinging Blue Jeans" Eliminated
Duel 2 Estera & Rebeca 1 "Because of You" Eliminated
Apollo 2 "Can't Hold Us" Finalist

Wildcard[]

In this season, like Season 5, the public will have the chance to save one of the acts that competed in the Auditions. The most voted act will go directly to the Live Shows. In the first live show if one of the mentor decides to take him in his team, then he will go further in the competition, otherwise he will be sent home.

The winner of this season was Alex Mladin from the Boys Category.

Finalists[]

The nine finalists will compete in the Live Shows.

  – Winner
  – Runner-up
  – Third place


Category (mentor) Acts [2]
Boys (Matache) Raul Eregep Alex Mladin Emilian Nechifor
Girls (Carla's) Izabela Simion Olga Verbiţchi
Over 24s (Brenciu) Loredana Anghelache Marcel Roşca
Groups (Bănică) 3 O'Clock Apollo

Live shows[]

Results summary[]

Color key
  – Contestant was announced as the winner
  – Contestant has returned in the competition
  – Contestant was in the bottom three and had to sing again in the final showdown
  – Contestant was in the bottom three but received the fewest votes and was immediately eliminated
  – Contestant received the fewest public votes and was immediately eliminated (no final showdown)
Live shows results per contestant
Contestant Live Show 1 Live Show 2 Live Show 3
Wildcard Elimination Round 1 Round 2 Round 1 Round 2
Olga Verbiţchi N/A Safe Safe Safe Safe Winner
Raul Eregep N/A Safe Safe Safe Safe Runner-Up
Alex Mladin Returned Gala 1 Safe Safe Safe 3rd Eliminated (Gala 3)
Marcel Roşca N/A Bottom three Safe Bottom three 4th Eliminated (Gala 3)
Loredana Anghelache N/A Safe Safe Bottom three Eliminated (Gala 2)
Emilian Nechifor N/A Safe Safe 6th Eliminated (Gala 2)
Izabela Simion N/A Safe 7th Eliminated (Gala 2)
3 O'Clock N/A Bottom three Eliminated (Gala 1)
Apollo N/A 9th Eliminated (Gala 1)
Final showdown None Marcel Roşca,
3 O'Clock 		None Marcel Roşca,
Loredana Anghelache 		None
Brenciu's vote to eliminate 3 O'Clock Roşca
Matache's vote to eliminate 3 O'Clock Anghelache
Bănică's vote to eliminate Roşca Anghelache
Carla's vote to eliminate 3 O'Clock Anghelache
Eliminated Apollo
by public vote 		Izabela Simion
by public vote 		Emilian Nechifor
by public vote 		Alex Mladin
by public vote 		Raul Eregep
by public vote
3 O'Clock
by judges vote 		Loredana Anghelache
by judges vote 		Marcel Roşca
by public vote 		Olga Verbiţchi
by public vote
Reference(s) [3]

Live show details[]

Live Show 1 - December 9, 2016[]

Contestants' performances on the first live show
Act Order Song Result
Raul Eregep 1 "Multumesc iubita mama" Safe
Apollo 2 "Pierdut buletin" Eliminated
Marcel Roşca 3 "Pe aripi de vant" Bottom three
Izabela Simion 4 "Cine iubeste si lasa / Marioara de la Gorj" Safe
Loredana Anghelache 5 "Sa nu mi iei dragostea" Safe
Emilian Nechifor 6 "Ana, zorile se varsa" Safe
Olga Verbiţchi 7 "Constantine, Constantine" Safe
3 O'Clock 8 "Ce e dragostea?" Bottom three
Alex Mladin 9 "Ochii aia verzi" Safe
Final showdown details
Marcel Roşca 1 "Look into My Eyes" Safe
3 O'Clock 2 "The Way You Make Me Feel" Eliminated

Live Show 2: Semifinal - December 16, 2016[]

Contestants' performances on the second live show
Act Order Song Result
Round 1
Alex Mladin 1 "Şi îngerii au demonii lor" Safe
Izabela Simion 2 "Cuvintele tale" Eliminated
Marcel Roşca 3 "Săracă inima mea" Safe
Olga Verbiţchi 4 "Cine te crezi" Safe
Emilian Nechifor 5 "Ne împotrivim" Safe
Loredana Anghelache 6 "Cerul" Safe
Raul Eregep 7 "Imperfect" Safe
Round 2
Emilian Nechifor 1 "Cake by the Ocean" Eliminated
Raul Eregep 2 "Treat You Better" Safe
Marcel Roşca 3 "The Show Must Go On" Bottom three
Olga Verbiţchi 4 "The Greatest" Safe
Loredana Anghelache 5 "Hello" Bottom three
Alex Mladin 6 "Nothing Really Matters" Safe
Final showdown details
Loredana Anghelache 1 "Listen" Eliminated
Marcel Roşca 2 "Breathe Easy" Safe

Live Show 3: Final - December 23, 2016[]

Round 1[]

  • Theme: Duet with special guest and with their mentor
Contestants' performances on the third live show
Act Order First Song (duet with special guest) Order Second Song (duet with mentor) Result
Olga Verbiţchi 1 "Bună dimineața" (with Zdob și Zdub) 8 "Te rog" (with Carla's Dreams) Safe
Alex Mladin 2 "Love Me like You Do" (with Sore) 5 "It's My Life" (with Delia Matache) 3rd place
Marcel Roşca 3 "Atât de singur" (with Alin Opera) 6 "I'll Make Love to You" (with Horia Brenciu) 4th place
Raul Eregep 4 "Beneath Your Beautiful" (with Alina Eremia) 7 "Hallelujah" (with Delia Matache) Safe

Round 2[]

  • Theme: Final
Contestants' performances on the final live show
Act Order Song Result
Raul Eregep 1 "Writing's on the Wall" Runner-up
Olga Verbiţchi 2 "Feeling Good" Winner

Ratings[]

Ep Title Date National Urban 18-49 Source
Average
(thousands) 		Rating
(%) 		Average
(thousands) 		Rating
(%) 		Average
(thousands) 		Rating
(%)
1 Auditions 1 9 September 2016 1.009 5.6 498 5.1 263 5.9 [5]
2 Auditions 2 16 September 2016 1.024 5.7 607 6.2 321 7.2 [6]
3 Auditions 3 23 September 2016 1.129 6.3 626 6.4 359 8.0 [7]
4 Auditions 4 25 September 2016 1.643 9.2 954 9.8 501 11.2 [8]
5 Auditions 5 30 September 2016 1.258 7.0 702 7.2 393 8.8 [9]
6 Auditions 6 7 October 2016 1.188 6.6 717 7.4 396 8.8 [10]
7 Auditions 7 14 October 2016 1.160 6.5 663 6.8 342 7.7 [11]
8 Auditions 8 21 October 2016 1.198 6.7 670 6.9 357 7.9 [12]
9 Auditions 9 28 October 2016 1.120 6.2 595 6.1 299 6.6 [13]
10 Auditions 10 4 November 2016 1.230 6.9 653 6.7 332 7.4 [14]
11 Auditions 11 11 November 2016 1.050 5.8 552 5.7 282 6.3 [15]
12 Four-chair Challenge 1 18 November 2016 920 5.1 530 5.4 260 5.8 [16]
13 Four-chair Challenge 2 23 November 2016 1.059 5.9 587 6.0 298 6.6 [17]
14 Four-chair Challenge 3 25 November 2016 1.161 6.5 700 7.2 355 7.9 [18]
15 Four-chair Challenge 4 30 November 2016
16 The Duels 2 December 2016
17 Live Show 1 9 December 2016
18 Live Show 2 16 December 2016
19 Live Show 3 23 December 2016

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