By AL ARABIYA
Murad Boureiky, a Moroccan young singer who was crowned last week as the winner of MBC’s talent show The Voice, returned home on Monday to a hero’s welcome.
Family members, friends and fans greeted Murad with traditional Moroccan dancing and music at Casablanca airport with airport.
Four candidates made it to the final stage of The Voice, two from Morocco, one from Tunisia and one from Iraq.
Boureiky received the most votes from viewers, who voted through mobile SMS messages.
Assi el-Helani Lebanese star singer described Boureiky as the “Clay of Arabia” because of his “professionalism, talent and balanced performance.”
Helani said Boureiky was a unique talent that deserves to be supported and deserves the ultimate title of “the best voice.”
According to statement from mbc.net, The Voice, or “Ahla Sowt” in Arabic, “brings the sweetest voices Arabia has to boast, with blind auditions having been performed in: UAE, Egypt, Kuwait, Tunisia, Lebanon and Morocco.”
“The format takes these talents on a journey of self-discovery to unveil ‘the voice’ of this season,” according to mbc.net.
Top Arab singers: Shirine Abdelwahab, Kazim El Saher Assi el-Helani, and Saber El Roba’i were the coaches who try to recruit the best singing talents to their team and coach them through the competition. The contest consists of 3 stages: blind auditions, battle rounds and the live performances.
