More than 38 million pesos owed The Voice Dominicana


After two seasons, a high rating, a weekly trend and a large investment, the local franchise The Dominican Voice is in the eye of the hurricane after the denunciations for payment slip seven months after the last broadcast of the reality show in October 2022.

Last week the claims of the winner of the second season, the singer Adriana Green, reached the press, who is owed the sum of RD$1 million pesos, while the merenguero Eddy Herrera confessed that they owe him US$28,000.

Now, Nuria Piera in her research program and with the testimonies of the presenters, coaches, public relations and members of the production team, uncovered the boiling pressure cooker.

According to collected data and a financial report, the overall debt in The Dominican Voice ranges to US$ 700 thousand dollars equivalent to more than 38 million Dominican pesos.

The one who brought the franchise to the country was the producer Ariel Nina Gomezresident in the United States, with your company “Four and four production”. According to the research program, he bought the franchise to bring it to the DR for RD$300 thousand dollars. In the show, the singers audition with the jury facing away.

Everything they owe, according to what they informed Nuria Piera

Then the detail of what they owe to each presenter and production team:

to the presenter Jhoel López RD$270 thousand pesos, the musicologist coach RD$324 thousandto Milly Quezada RD$648 thousand, Luz García (presenter) and Alex Matos (coach) more than RD$1,100,000 pesos each.

To Eddy Herrera more than one million 500 thousand pesos.

While Marketing, Communications and the Media owe more than RD$ for advertising and sales commissions19 million pesos.

To the musician and musical director Henry Jimenez he is owed more than 5 million pesos and the audio, lighting and screen company equals an amount of more than 5 million pesos.

To winner of the first season, Johan Amparostill missing Half a million already Adriana Greenthe native of La Romana winner of the second edition, has not been paid the promised million.

The general debt is US$ 700 thousand dollars, equivalent to more than 38 million Dominican pesos, according to calculations made from the data offered to that medium.

The people who were part of the talent and production team revealed to “Nuria journalistic investigation” the situations that had been occurring in the space to the point that the general producer Angie Rodríguez had to pay for food on a long day of work. recording.

They spoke on television Eddy Herrera, Milly Quezada, Alex Matos, Luz García, Mariú Ruiz, from public relations and Angie Rodríguez, general producer of the show with experience in conducting The Voice Kids in the United States in the Latin version, the reason for which, she says, was that they sought her out to work in the Dominican Republic.

The singer and coach Milly Quezada deplored this situation and revealed that she sought legal advice and filed a complaint for payment slip. The other talents do not rule out going to court.

What generated the debt?

“I understand that there were enough sponsors in season 1 and 2,” Rodríguez said.

“Rumors indicate that sales executives said that clients paid all their commitments,” Mariú added.

Since she did not attend the interview, in a letter addressed to Nuria Piera and signed by the person in charge of The Dominican Voice in the DR, Ariel Nina, he pointed out that he still owes some amounts from the first season of The Voice and that the debt for the second season is generated by not having received financing from the company ACR Capital in the United States.

He also explained that production costs rose too much.

A source close to the production stated that the budget went from $1.5 million to $2.5 million. That is to say, that the second edition dragged the overdraft of the first, attributed according to the source “to the inefficient management of the funds.”

Complaints for non-payment of The Dominican Voice grew up after it was circulated in the celebrity corridors that a version of The Voice Kids with a different team and on another channel, since the first two seasons were on Telesistema, channel 11.

Source-www.diariolibre.com