PBS, the Maltese national broadcaster, has revealed the format of the The Voice Kids 2026, the Maltese selection for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026.
Ahead of the first episode of the new season of The Voice Kids, PBS revealed the format of the show. The format features some changes from last year’s series.
Blind Auditions
Participants will audition for the three coaches (Destiny Chukunyere, Aleandro Spiteri Monsigneur and Gaia Cauchi). If the coaches want a participant to join their team, they press their red button and their chair turns around. If only one coach turns around, then the participant automatically joins that coach’s team. If more than one coach turns around, the participant chooses which team they would like to join. If no coaches turn around, then the participant is eliminated.
Battles
Each coach groups several singers on their team to perform together. Each coach chooses one singer per battle to stay on their team. Each coach may also steal one contestant from another team who did not originally win their battle.
Sing-Offs
The remaining participants perform solo numbers. Each coach selects two members of their team to advance to the final.
Final
The six finalists perform their audition song again. Each coach selects one artist to advance to the superfinal. In the superfinal, the three remaining finalists perform a duet with their coach. Unlike last year, the winner will not be chosen by public voting. The winner will be chosen instead by a jury. The winner of The Voice Kids Malta 2026 will represent Malta on home ground at the Junior Eurovision 2026 in Ta’ Qali.
The Voice Kids 2026 will be aired on weekdays from tomorrow on TVM. The show will be presented by Maxime Pace, who will present the show for the second year in a row.
Eliza Borg represented Malta at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with “I Believe”. She placed 11th in Tbilisi, scoring 92 points.
Source: TVM
Malta in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest+
Malta debuted in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2003 and has gone on to win the contest twice. In 2013, on their return to the competition in Kyiv, Gaia Cauchi won the contest with “The Start”. She was the first winner of a Eurovision event for Malta. In 2015, Destiny Chukunyere took victory in Sofia with the song “Not My Soul”. The country has hosted the contest in 2014 and 2016, and will host again in 2026. This will make Malta the first country to host Junior Eurovision three times.