Your Face Sounds Familiar

Your Face Sounds Familiar (Spanish: Tu Cara Me Suena) is a Spanish interactive reality television franchise series developed by Endemol and Antena 3, where celebrity contestants impersonate singers. The format, similar to Dutch television series Soundmixshow, was first used in Spain under the title Tu cara me suena in 2011.

This article is about the international franchise. For the UK version, see Your Face Sounds Familiar (British TV series).

Your Face Sounds Familiar
Created by	Gestmusic
Original work	Tu cara me suena
Owned by	Endemol
Films and television
Television series	Your Face Sounds Familiar (independent international versions, see below)
Miscellaneous
First aired	28 September 2011 (2011-09-28)
Official website
Production website

Format

Countries that have their own versions of Your Face Sounds Familiar (by 2015)

The show challenges celebrities to perform as different iconic music artists every week, which are chosen by the show's "Randomiser". They are then judged by the panel of celebrity judges.

Each celebrity becomes transformed into a different singer each week, and performs an iconic song and dance routine well known by that particular singer. The 'randomiser' can choose any older or younger artist available in the machine, or even a singer of the opposite sex, or a deceased singer.

The contestants are awarded points from the judges based on their singing and dance routines. After the jury vote, the contestants have to give a set of points to a fellow contestant of their choice. The total score of each contestant is counted by summing the points from judges and contestant's voting. In case of a tie, the judges will choose the weeks winner.

Whoever is at the top of the leaderboard at the end of the each show receives a cash prize for a charity of their choice and a further grand prize for the "series champion".

Your Face Sounds Familiar around the world

Since the format debuted in Spain, there have been more than 47 versions worldwide (as of December 2016). The Romanian Version of Your Face Sounds Familiar is the only format awarded for 14 series produced.[1]

Legend

     Premiered / Airing

     Cancelled

     Upcoming

     Original version (Spain)

     Kids version (Original: Portugal)

Country	Local title	Presenter(s)	Channel	Premiere	Website
Albania	Your Face Sounds Familiar	Alketa Vejsiu	TV Klan	14 March 2016 (season 1) 20 February 2017 (season 2)	Official website
Angola  Mozambique	A Tua Cara Não Me É Estranha	Dicla Burity	Mundo FOX	20 January 2019 (season 1) 27 March 2019 (season 2)
Arab World	شكلك مش غريب Shaklak mesh gharib	Tony Abou Jaoudeh	MBC4 MBC Masr	19 April 2014	Official website
Argentina	Tu cara me suena	Alejandro Wiebe	Telefe	23 September 2013 (season 1) 16 April 2014 (season 2) 20 July 2015 (season 3)	Official website
Brazil	Esse Artista Sou Eu	Marcio Ballas	SBT	25 August 2014	Official website
	Show dos Famosos	Fausto Silva	Rede Globo	23 April 2017 (season 1) 1 April 2018 (season 2)
Bulgaria	Като две капки вода Kato dve kapki voda	Dimitar Rachkov Vasil Vasilev-Zueka (season 1–present)	Nova Television	13 March 2013 (season 1) 10 March 2014 (season 2) 3 March 2015 (season 3) 3 March 2016 (season 4) 27 February 2017 (season 5) 26 February 2018 (season 6) 25 February 2019 (season 7) 24 February 2020 (season 8)	Official website
Belarus	Як дзве кроплі Yak dvi krapli	Georgiy Koldun Alyona Lanskaya	ONT	12 January 2014	Official website
Costa Rica	Tu cara me suena	Edgar Murillo	Teletica	14 April 2015	Official website
Croatia	Tvoje lice zvuči poznato	Igor Mešin (season 1-5) Rene Bitorajac (season 1-5) Maja Šuput (season 6) Frano Ridjan (season 6)	Nova TV	5 October 2014 (season 1) 13 September 2015 (season 2) 25 September 2016 (season 3) 5 March 2017 (season 4) 18 March 2018 (season 5) 8 March 2020 (season 6)	Official website
Chile	Tu cara me suena	Luis Jara	Mega	29 February 2012	Official website
China	百变大咖秀 Bǎi biàn dà kā xiù	He Jiong Xie Na	Hunan Television	12 July 2012	Official website
Colombia	Tu cara me suena	Daniel Hoyos	Caracol Televisión	23 February 2015	Official website
Czech Republic	Tvoje tvář má známý hlas	Ondřej Sokol (season 1-6) Vladimír Polívka (season 7)	TV Nova	26 March 2016 (season 1) 4 September 2016 (season 2) 26 February 2017 (season 3) 2 September 2017 (season 4) 1 September 2018 (season 5) 7 September 2019 (season 6) 5 September 2020 (season 7)	Official website
Estonia	Su nägu kõlab tuttavalt	Mart Sander (season 1–3) Märt Avandi (season 4–7)	TV3	17 March 2013 (season 1) 6 October 2013 (season 2) 5 October 2014 (season 3) 4 October 2015 (season 4) 2 October 2016 (season 5) 1 October 2017 (season 6) 7 October 2018 (season 7)	Official website
	Su nägu kõlab varsti tuttavalt (talent version)	Sander Rebane		13 October 2019 (season 1)	Official website
France	Un air de star[2]	Karine Le Marchand	M6	14 May 2013	Official website
Georgia	ერთი ერთში Erti Ertshi	Tornike Gogrichiani (season 1) Ani Mamulashvili (season 1) Ruska Makashvili (season 2-3) Kakha Kintsurashvili (season 2-3)	GDS TV	30 October 2013 (season 1) 16 April 2014 (season 2) 19 November 2014 (season 3)	Official website
		Duta Skhirtladze Ilo Beroshvili	IMEDI TV	5 May 2015 (season 4)
Germany	Sing wie dein Star	Jörg Pilawa	Das Erste	13 September 2014	Official website
Greece  Cyprus	Your Face Sounds Familiar	Maria Bekatorou	ANT1	14 April 2013 (season 1) 9 March 2014 (season 2) 3 April 2016 (season 3) 23 April 2017 (season 4) 27 January 2019 (season 5) 16 February 2020 (Current season 6) 2021 (Upcoming season 7)	Official website
Hungary	Sztárban sztár	Sándor Friderikusz (season 1) Attila Till (season 2–)	TV2	11 October 2013 (season 1[3]) 7 September 2014 (season 2) 27 September 2015 (season 3) 11 September 2016 (season 4) 10 September 2017 (season 5) 14 October 2018 (season 6) Fall 2020 (season 7)	Official website
	Sztárban sztár leszek! (talent version)	Attila Till		1 September 2019 (season 1)[4]	Official website
	Sztárban sztár +1 kicsi (kids version)		Super TV2	27 November 2016 (season 1)[5] 26 November 2017 (season 2)	Official website
Italy	Tale e Quale Show	Carlo Conti	Rai 1	20 April 2012 (season 1) 14 September 2012 (season 2) 13 September 2013 (season 3) 12 September 2014 (season 4) 11 September 2015 (season 5) 16 September 2016 (season 6) 22 September 2017 (season 7) 14 September 2018 (season 8) 13 September 2019 (season 9)	Official website
	Tale e Quale Show – Il torneo			9 November 2012 (season 1) 22 November 2013 (season 2) 14 November 2014 (season 3) 30 October 2015 (season 4) 4 November 2016 (season 5) 17 November 2017 (season 6) 2 November 2018 (season 7) 25 October 2019 (season 8)
	Tale e Quale Show – Duetti			12 January 2013 (season 1)
Latvia	Izklausies redzēts	Lauris Reiniks (season 1-3) Renārs Zeltiņš (season 4)	TV3 Latvia	2 March 2014 (season 1) 27 September 2015 (season 2) 25 September 2016 (season 3) 25 February 2018 (season 4)	Official website
Lithuania	Muzikinė kaukė	Arūnas Sakalauskas (Seasons 1-2) Algis Ramanauskas (Seasons 3-7) Indrė Kavaliauskaitė, Simonas Storpirštis (Season 8)	BTV	6 September 2012 (season 1) 7 November 2013 (season 2) 1 November 2018 (season 7) 2 November 2019 (Season 8)	Official website
Mexico	Soy tu doble	Ingrid Coronado Alfonso de Anda	Azteca	May 2014	Official website
Mongolia	Яг түүн шиг шоу Yag Tuun Shig	Tsolmonbayar Bold	Edutainment TV	8 May 2016 (season 1) 9 April 2017 (season 2) 6 May 2018 (season 3) 5 May 2019 (season 4)	Official website
Netherlands	Your Face Sounds Familiar	Winston Gerschtanowitz	RTL Nederland	29 December 2012	Official website
Panama	Tu cara me suena	Eddy Vásquez	TVN	11 September 2013 (season 1) 26 August 2014 (season 2) 25 August 2015 (season 3) 13 September 2017 (season 4) 29 August 2018 (season 5) 4 September 2019 (season 6)	Official website
	Tu cara me suena kids (kids version)			27 January 2016 (season 1)
Peru	Tu cara me suena	Adolfo Aguilar	Frecuencia Latina	27 October 2013	Official website
Philippines [6]	Your Face Sounds Familiar	Billy Crawford	ABS-CBN[7]	14 March 2015 (season 1) 12 September 2015 (season 2)	Official website
	Your Face Sounds Familiar: Kids (kids version)[8]			7 January 2017 (season 1)[9] 5 May 2018 (season 2)
Poland	Twoja twarz brzmi znajomo	Piotr Gąsowski Maciej Dowbor	Polsat	8 March 2014 (season 1) 6 September 2014 (season 2) 7 March 2015 (season 3) 5 September 2015 (season 4) 12 March 2016 (season 5) 3 September 2016 (season 6) 4 March 2017 (season 7) 9 September 2017 (season 8) 3 March 2018 (season 9) 8 September 2018 (season 10) 23 February 2019 (season 11) 7 September 2019 (season 12) 7 March 2020 (season 13)	Official website
Portugal	A Tua Cara não me é Estranha	Cristina Ferreira Manuel Luís Goucha (Season 1-5) Maria Cerqueira Gomes (Season 6)	TVI	22 January 2012 (season 1) 8 April 2012 (season 2) 3 February 2013 (season 3) 22 October 2016 (season 4) 26 May 2018 (season 5) 19 May 2019 (season 6)	Official website
	A Tua Cara não me é Estranha: Especial (special)			24 June 2012 (season 1) 5 February 2017 (season 2)
	A Tua Cara não me é Estranha: Duetos (duets version)			8 July 2012
	A Tua Cara não me é Estranha: Kids (kids version)			9 February 2014
Romania	Te cunosc de undeva!	Cosmin Seleși Alina Pușcaș	Antena 1	17 March 2012 (season 1) 15 September 2012 (season 2) 16 February 2013 (season 3) 7 September 2013 (season 4) 15 February 2014 (season 5) 13 September 2014 (season 6) 14 February 2015 (season 7) 12 September 2015 (season 8) 13 February 2016 (season 9) 11 September 2016 (season 10) 18 February 2017 (season 11) 9 September 2017 (season 12) 8 September 2018 (season 13) 7 September 2019 (Season 14)	Official website
Russia	Один в один! Odin v odin!	Aleksandr Oleshko Nonna Grishayeva	Channel One (season 1)	3 March 2013	Official website
		Igor Vernik Yulia Kovalchuk Aleksandr Oleshko (season 5)	Russia-1	2 March 2014 (season 2) 8 February 2015 (season 3) 6 February 2016 (season 4) 2 February 2019 (season 5)	Official website
	Toch-v-Toch (unofficial adaptation) Toch-v-toch	Aleksandr Oleshko	Channel One	2 March 2014	Official website
Serbia  Bosnia and Herzegovina  North Macedonia  Montenegro	Tvoje lice zvuči poznato Твоје лице звучи познато Твоето лице звучи познато	Petar Strugar (Season 1) Marija Kilibarda (Season 1-3, 5) Bojan Ivković (Season 2) Nina Seničar (Season 4)	Prva Srpska Televizija Radio Televizija Republike Srpske Federalna televizija Sitel	12 October 2013 (season 1) 12 October 2014 (season 2) 6 March 2016 (season 3) 1 October 2017 (season 4) 4 October 2019 (season 5)	Official website
Slovakia	Tvoja tvár znie povedome	Martin "Pyco" Rausch (season 1-4) Martin Nikodým (season 5)	Markíza	6 March 2016 (season 1) 4 September 2016 (season 2) 5 March 2017 (season 3) 9 September 2018 (season 4) 8 September 2019 (season 5)	Official website
Slovenia	Znan obraz ima svoj glas	Denis Avdić	POP TV	30 March 2014 (season 1) 1 March 2015 (season 2) 6 March 2016 (season 3) 24 September 2017 (season 4) 22 September 2019 (season 5)	Official website
Spain	Tu cara me suena	Manel Fuentes	Antena 3	28 September 2011 (season 1) 1 October 2012 (season 2) 24 October 2013 (season 3) 18 September 2015 (season 4) 7 October 2016 (season 5) 29 September 2017 (season 6) 28 September 2018 (season 7) 10 January 2020 (season 8)	Official website
	Tu cara me suena: Especial Navidad (Christmas special)			4 January 2012
	Tu cara más solidaria (charity special)			25 February 2013 (season 1) 17 October 2013 (season 2)
	Tu cara me suena mini (kids version)			11 September 2014
	Tu cara no me suena todavía (talent version)			10 March 2017
South Korea	Your Face Sounds Familiar	?	Mnet	2 December 2017 (season 1)
Switzerland	Un air de star	René Rindlisbacher	RTS Deux (Season 1) TV3 (Season 2)	23 February 2014 (season 1) 5 July 2016 (season 2)
	Sing wie dein Star
Thailand	เปลี่ยนหน้าท้าโชว์ Sing Your Face Off[10] Change your Face Challenge to Showing: Sing Your Face Off	Surivipa Kultangwattana	CH 7	13 June 2015 - 19 September 2015 (season 1)[11] 9 April 2016 - 25 June 2016 (season 2) 3 June 2017 - 16 September 2017 (season 3) 20 October 2018 - 5 January 2019 (season 4)	Official website
Tunisia	Najmek Tounsi	Issam Youssefi	Wataniya 1	20 July 2019	TBA
Turkey	Benzemez Kimse Sana	Murat Başoğlu	Star TV (Season 1, 3) Show TV (Season 2)	8 June 2012 (season 1) 29 March 2013 (season 2) 24 January 2015 (season 3)	Official website
Ukraine	ШОУМАSТГОУОН SHOWMUSTGOON	Maria Efrosinina	Novyi Kanal	7 October 2012	Official website
	Як дві краплі Yak dvi krapli	Anastasiya Zavorotnuk Anton Lirnik	Ukraine	6 October 2013	Official website
United Kingdom	Your Face Sounds Familiar	Alesha Dixon Paddy McGuinness	ITV	29 June 2013	Official website
United States	Sing Your Face Off	John Barrowman	ABC	31 May 2014[12]	Official website
	Tu Cara Me Suena[13]	TBA	Univision	TBA
Venezuela	Buscando Una Estrella	Daniel Sarcos	Venevisión	28 September 2011 (season 1) 18 October 2012 (season 2) 24 October 2013 (season 3) 18 September 2015 (season 4)
Vietnam	Gương mặt thân quen	Thanh Bạch (season 1-2, 7) Đại Nghĩa (season 3-5) (season 1-4 kids version) Quang Bảo (season 6)	VTV	5 January - 23 March 2013 (season 1) 29 March - 14 June 2014 (season 2) 18 April - 11 July 2015 (season 3) 23 April 2016 - 16 July 2016 (season 4) 13 May - 5 August 2017 (season 5) 9 June - 1 September 2018 (season 6) 2 November 2019 - 18 January 2020 (season 7)	Official website
	Gương mặt thân quen Nhí (kids version)			3 October 2014 (season 1) 2 October 2015 (season 2) 7 October 2016 (season 3) 18 August 2017 (season 4)

Controversy

The show is highly controversial as several performances have been known to use Blackface to impersonate Black people in various countries, including in several countries with a problematic racist subculture, and where there is a relatively small black population.[14] After the George Floyd protests, Damir Kedzo, a winner of the Croatian series, apologized for having used blackface in several impersonations, such as of The Weeknd, when he partook on the show 4 years earlier, though also saying that "That being said. The responsibility lies in artist who are being impersonated too. They know about it. Because EVERY song is approved by artists publishers. They know about it."[15]

See also

• Soundmixshow – similar concept that debuted in the Netherlands in 1985, on KRO.
• Stars in Their Eyes – British adaptation of Soundmixshow, originally from 1990–2006, on ITV.

References

1. "Echipa "Te cunosc de undeva!" premiată pentru cele zece sezoane de succes ale show-ului, la Antena 1". A1.RO. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
2. "EXCLU: M6 annonce la fin de "Un air de star" qui ne reviendra pas pour une 2ème saison". Retrieved 1 October 2017.
3. Season 1 was not an official licensed part of the Your Face Sounds Familiar franchise. The deal with Endemol was made before season 2. See: Varga Attila (7 October 2014). "Nem lesz prűd az Éden hotel" (in Hungarian). Index. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
4. Fischer Gábor (18 April 2019). "Sztárban Sztár: Jön a Talent Show, legyél te Magyarország legsokoldalúbb előadója!" (in Hungarian). tv2.hu. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
5. Fischer Gábor (3 August 2016). "Szuper ősz a SuperTV2-n" (in Hungarian). supertv2.hu. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
6. Rubira, Tinet. "@Mikytak07 @tucaramsuena en Filipinas pronto aún no han estrenado". Retrieved 1 October 2017.
7. ABS-CBN Entertainment (6 February 2015). "Your Face Sounds Familiar Teaser: Soon on ABS-CBN!". Retrieved 1 October 2017 – via YouTube.
8. ABS-CBN Entertainment (13 December 2016), Your Face Sounds Familiar Kids Teaser: Coming Soon on ABS-CBN!, retrieved 22 December 2016
9. ABS-CBN Entertainment (24 November 2016), Your Face Sounds Familiar Kids Trade Trailer: Coming in 2017 on ABS-CBN!, retrieved 22 December 2016
10. "'คนดัง'พร้อมเปลี่ยนหน้าท้าโชว์" (in Thai). ไทยรัฐฉบับพิมพ์. 29 May 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
11. "Formats: Sing Your Face Off Thailand". ContentAsia. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
12. "ABC Announces the Premiere of New Summer Series "Sing Your Face Off"". thefutoncritic.com. 4 April 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
13. "'Tu cara me suena' vuelve a dar el salto a Estados Unidos". Bluper (in Spanish). El Español. 18 June 2020. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
14. Wiwibloggs (4 June 2020). "Racism and Blackface in Your Face Sounds Familiar". Wiwibloggs. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
15. Smith, David (28 May 2020). "Damir Kedzo apologizes for blackface performances". Wiwibloggs.

External links

• Endemol official website | Your Face Sounds Familiar