Your Face Sounds Familiar

Your Face Sounds Familiar (Spanish: Tu cara me suena) is a Spanish interactive reality television franchise series 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.

Format

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".

Blackface incidents

Throughout the course of its broadcast, the Your Face Sounds Familiar franchise has received heavy criticism due to its contestants' frequent usage of blackface. Prominent artists who have been impersonated via blackface include Drake,^[2] Tina Turner,^[3] Michael Jackson^[3] and Stevie Wonder.^[4] In March 2021, actor Tomasz Ciachorowski received backlash after performing Kanye West's single "Stronger" on the Polish iteration of the franchise while using blackface.^[5] The series defended Ciachorowski's impersonation and were "very surprised" by the negative reception, arguing: "The intention of each star performing on the show, as well as of the whole production team, is to recreate the original performance in the most precise manner, while honouring the original artist."^[5]

In accordance with the requirements of the franchise's owner Banijay, the Czech version of the series prohibited the usage of blackface in April 2021.^[6] Vojtěch Boháček, the edition's public relations coordinator, supported the decision and added that the show's goal "has always been and is to respect and celebrate artists around the world, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation or any other characteristics."^[6]

The Polish edition of the series received widespread criticism again in September 2023 after singer Kuba Szmajkowski and actress Pola Gonciarz used blackface to impersonate Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé.^[7] As Szmajkowski performed Lamar's single "Humble", he also sported fake cornrows and repeatedly used nigga; the broadcast did not censor the racial term, although it did censor other profane language.^[8] In a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Banijay Group condemned its subsidiary, Endemol Shine Poland, for its execution of their franchise, stating that it "contradicts with our group's global values." The company shared that a "subsequent internal investigation is underway and the appropriate measures will be taken."^[9]

International versions

Since the format debuted in Spain, there have been more than 47 versions worldwide (as of December 2016).

Legend

  Airing

  Not airing

  Upcoming

  Original version (Spain)

  Talent version (Spain)

  Kids version (Portugal)

Country	Local title	Presenter(s)	Winners	Channel	Premiere	Website
Albania	Your Face Sounds Familiar	Alketa Vejsiu	Anxhela Peristeri (season 1)	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	Abdulmonem Amairy (as Wadih El Safi) (season 1)	MBC 4 MBC Masr (season 1) Galaxy (season 2)	19 April 2014 (season 1) 18 December 2020 (season 2)	Official website
Argentina	Tu cara me suena	Alejandro Wiebe	Laura Esquivel (season 1) Ángela Torres (season 2) Diana Amarilla (season 3)	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 [pt]	Vanessa Jackson (season 1)	SBT	25 August 2014	Official website
	Show dos Famosos	Fausto Silva (season 1-3) Luciano Huck (season 4)	Ícaro Silva [pt] (season 1) Mumuzinho [pt] (season 2) Ludmilla & Di Ferrero [pt] (season 3) Gloria Groove (season 4)	TV Globo	23 April 2017 (season 1) 1 April 2018 (season 2) 7 April 2019 (season 3) 9 September 2021 (season 4)
Bulgaria	Като две капки вода [bg] Kato dve kapki voda	Dimitar Rachkov (season 1–8, 10–12) Vasil Vasilev – Zueka (season 1–9) Geasim Georgiev – Gero (season 9–12)	Raffi Bohosyan (season 1) Nevena Bozukova-Neve (season 2) Nencho Balabanov (season 3) Kalin Vrachanski (season 4) Mihaela Marinova (season 5) Slavin Slavchev (season 6) Stefan Ilchev (season 7) Fiki (season 8) Krasimir Radkov (season 10) Vladimir Mihaylov (season 11)	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) 14 February 2022 (season 10) 19 February 2023 (season 11) 19 February 2024 (season 12)	Official website
	Като две капки вода All Stars Kato dve kapki voda All Stars		Raffi Bohosyan (season 9)		22 February 2021 (season 9)
Costa Rica	Tu cara me suena	Edgar Murillo		Teletica	14 April 2015	Official website
Croatia	Tvoje lice zvuči poznato	Igor Mešin (season 1–5,8) Rene Bitorajac (season 1–5) Maja Šuput (season 6-7) Frano Ridjan (season 6-7) Filip Detelić (season 8)	Mario Petreković (season 1) Saša Lozar (season 2, season 7) Damir Kedžo (season 3) Nives Celzijus (season 4) Maja Bajamić (season 5) Fabijan Pavao Medvešek (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) 25 April 2021 (season 7) 3 March 2024 (season 8)	Official website
Chile	Tu cara me suena	Luis Jara	Fernando Godoy (season 1)	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 29 January 2021	Official website
Colombia	Tu cara me suena [es]	Daniel Hoyos	Jimmy Vásquez (season 1)	Caracol Televisión	23 February 2015	Official website
Czech Republic	Tvoje tvář má známý hlas	Ondřej Sokol (season 1–6, 8–) Vladimír Polívka [cs] (season 7) Aleš Háma (season 8–)	Hana Holišová (season 1, 8) Jan Cina (season 2) Tatiana Vilhelmová (season 3) Berenika Kohoutová (season 4) Michaela Badinková (season 5) Marek Lambora (season 6) Jitka Čvančarová (season 7) David Gránský (season 8) Václav Kopta (season 9)	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) 21 March 2021 (season 8) 27 February 2022 (season 9)	Official website
Estonia	Su nägu kõlab tuttavalt [et]	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 [et] (talent version)	Sander Rebane			13 October 2019 (season 1)	Official website
France	Un air de star [fr][10]	Karine Le Marchand	Valérie Bègue (Season 1)	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	Thanasis Alevras (season 1) Yiannis Savvidakis (season 2) Yiannis Kritikos (season 3) Yiannis Chatzigeorgiou (season 4) Ian Stratis (season 5) no winner (season 6)	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 (season 6)	Official website
	Your Face Sounds Familiar – All Star		Tania Breazou (season 7)		28 February 2021 (season 7)
Hungary	Sztárban sztár [hu]	Sándor Friderikusz [hu] (season 1) Attila Till [hu] (season 2–)	Zoltán Bereczki (season 1) Dénes Pál (season 2) Laci Gáspár (season 3) Tamás Veréb (season 4) Tamás Horváth (season 5) Freddie (season 6) Ádám Szabó (season 7) Bence Vavra (season 8) Petra Gubik (season 9)	TV2	11 October 2013 (season 1[11]) 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) 30 August 2020 (season 7) 6 February 2022 (season 8) 19 February 2023 (season 9)	Official website
	Sztárban sztár leszek! [hu] (talent version)	Attila Till	Viktória Békefi (season 1) István Csiszár (season 2) Dani Kökény (season 3) Kristóf Karapancsev (season 4)		1 September 2019 (season 1)[12] 4 September 2021 (season 2) 4 September 2022 (season 3) 3 September 2023 (season 4)	Official website
	Sztárban sztár +1 kicsi [hu] (kids version)		Dénes Pál & Vivien Varga (season 1) Tamás Vastag & Szabolcs Varga (season 2)	Super TV2	27 November 2016 (season 1)[13] 26 November 2017 (season 2)	Official website
Italy	Tale e Quale Show [it]	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) 18 September 2020 (season 10) 17 September 2021 (season 11) 30 September 2022 (season 12) 22 September 2023 (season 13)	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) 30 October 2020 (season 9) 19 November 2021 (season 10) 18 November 2022 (Season 11) 10 November 2023 (Season 12)
	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 (season 1–2) Algis Ramanauskas [lt] (season 3–7) Indrė Kavaliauskaitė, Simonas Storpirštis (season 8–11) Ugnė Siparė, Arnas Ašmonas (season 12–)	Norbertas (Season 11)	BTV (season 1-11) LNK (season 12-)	6 September 2012 (season 1) 7 November 2013 (season 2) 1 November 2018 (season 7) 2 November 2019 (season 8) 6 February 2021 – 1 May 2021 (season 9) 1 January 2022 – 26 March 2022 (season 10) 4 February 2023 – 29 April 2023 (season 11) 3 February 2024 – (season 12)	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 [es]	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 [es] (kids version)				27 January 2016 (season 1)
Peru	Tu cara me suena [es]	Adolfo Aguilar		Frecuencia Latina	27 October 2013	Official website
Philippines[14]	Your Face Sounds Familiar	Billy Crawford (season 1–2; kids 1–2) Melai Cantiveros (season 2) Luis Manzano (season 3)	Melai Cantiveros (season 1) Denise Laurel (season 2) Klarisse de Guzman (season 3)	ABS-CBN (season 1–2; kids 1–2) A2Z/Kapamilya Channel (season 3)[15]	14 March 2015 (season 1) 12 September 2015 (season 2) 20 February 2021 (season 3)	Official website
	Your Face Sounds Familiar: Kids (kids version)[16]		Awra Briguela (season 1) TNT Boys (season 2)		7 January 2017 (season 1)[17] 5 May 2018 (season 2)
Poland	Twoja twarz brzmi znajomo	Maciej Dowbor Maciej Rock (seasons 18–) Piotr Gąsowski (seasons 1–17)	Katarzyna Skrzynecka (season 1) Marek Kaliszuk (season 2) Stefano Terrazzino (season 3) Bartłomiej Kasprzykowski (season 4) Aleksandra Szwed (season 5) Maria Tyszkiewicz (season 6) Kasia Popowska (season 7) Kacper Kuszewski (season 8) Filip Lato (season 9) Mateusz Ziółko (season 10) Kazimierz Mazur (season 11) Adam Strycharczuk (season 12) Paweł Czadoman Dudek (season 13) Lesław Żurek (season 14) Robert Janowski (season 15) Johan Danzel Waem (season 16) Kasia Wilk (season 17) Oskar Cyms (season 18) Kuba Szmajkowski (season 19) Current season (season 20)	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) 5 March 2021 (season 14) 10 September 2021 (season 15) 4 March 2022 (season 16) 2 September 2022 (season 17) 3 March 2023 (season 18) 1 September 2023 (season 19)	Official website
Portugal	A Tua Cara não me é Estranha [pt]	Cristina Ferreira Manuel Luís Goucha (Season 1–5) Maria Cerqueira Gomes [pt] (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 [pt] (special version)				24 June 2012 (season 1) 5 February 2017 (season 2)
	A Tua Cara não me é Estranha: Duetos [pt] (duet version)				8 July 2012
	A Tua Cara não me é Estranha: Kids [pt] (kids version)				9 February 2014
Romania	Te cunosc de undeva!	Cosmin Seleși [ro] 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) 12 September 2020 (Season 15) 6 February 2021 (Season 16) 30 April 2022 (Season 17) 10 September 2022 (Season 18) 1 April 2023 (Season 19) 17 February 2024 (Season 20)	Official website
Russia	Один в один! Odin v odin!	Alexander Oleshko Nonna Grishayeva	Alexey Chumakov (season 1)	Channel One (season 1)	3 March 2013	Official website
		Igor Vernik (season 2–5) Yulia Kovalchuk (season 2–4) Alexander Oleshko (season 5)	Vitaly Gogunsky (season 2) Ruslan Alekhno and Batyrkhan Shukenov (season 3) Alexey Chumakov (season 4) Pavel Kryukov (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
	Точь-в-точь (unofficial adaptation) Toch-v-toch	Alexander Oleshko (season 1–5)	Irina Dubtsova and Nikita Presnyakov (season 1) Aziza (season 2) Eugene Dyatlov and Maxim Galkin (season3) Elena Maksimova (season 4) Anastasiya Spiridonova (season 5)	Channel One	2 March 2014 (season 1) 15 February 2015 (season 2) 20 September 2015 (season 3) 18 September 2016 (season 4) 14 February 2021 (season 5)	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)	Ana Kokić (season 1) Branislav Mojićević (season 2)Daniel Kajmakoski (season 3) Stevan Anđelković(season 4) Danijel Kajmakoski & Ivana Peters (season 5)	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 [sk] (season 1–4) Martin Nikodým [sk] (season 5-)	Lukáš Adamec (season 1) Mária Čírová (season 2) Peter Brajerčík (season 3) Dárius Kočí (season 4) Dávid Hartl (season 5) Martin Klinčúch (season 6) Viktória Ráková (season 7)	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) 7 March 2021 (season 6) 4 September 2022 (season 7)	Official website
	Tvoja MINI tvár znie povedome	Martin Nikodým	Sára Šalingová		20 October 2021
Slovenia	Znan obraz ima svoj glas	Denis Avdić		Pop	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) 6 March 2022 (season 6)	Official website
Spain	Tu cara me suena	Manel Fuentes [es]	Angy Fernández (season 1) Roko (season 2) Edurne (season 3) Ruth Lorenzo (season 4) Blas Cantó (season 5) Miquel Fernández (season 6) María Villalón (season 7) Jorge González (season 8) Agoney(season 9)	Antena 3	28 September – 30 November 2011 (season 1) 1 October 2012 – 11 February 2013 (season 2) 24 October 2013 – 27 March 2014 (season 3) 18 September 2015 – 29 January 2016 (season 4) 7 October 2016 – 3 March 2017 (season 5) 29 September 2017 – 2 March 2018 (season 6) 28 September 2018 – 8 February 2019 (season 7) 10 January 2020 – 8 January 2021 (season 8) 5 November 2021 – 4 March 2022 (season 9) 24 March 2023 – 21 July 2023 (season 10)	Official website
	Tu cara me suena Mini [es] (Kids version)		Abril Montmany & Xuso Jones		11 September – 20 November 2014
	Tu cara no me suena todavía [es] (Talent version)		Germán Scasso		10 March – 2 June 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[18] Change-your-Face-Challenge Show: Sing Your Face Off	Surivipa Kultangwattana		CH 7	13 June 2015 – 19 September 2015 (season 1) [19] 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
Turkey	Benzemez Kimse Sana [tr]	Murat Başoğlu	Ümit Erdim (season 1) Bahadır Efe (season 2) Eser Eyüboğlu (season 3)	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 [uk] SHOWMUSTGOON	Maria Efrosinina	Nikita Presnyakov	Novyi Kanal	7 October 2012	Official website
	Як дві краплі [uk] Yak dvi krapli	Anastasiya Zavorotnuk Anton Lirnik	Olya Polyakova (season 1)	Ukraine	6 October 2013	Official website
United Kingdom	Your Face Sounds Familiar	Alesha Dixon Paddy McGuinness	Natalie Anderson (Season 1)	ITV	29 June 2013	Official website
United States	Sing Your Face Off	John Barrowman	China Anne McClain (Season 1)	ABC	31 May 2014[20]	Official website
	Tu cara me suena[21]	Ana Brenda Contreras Rafael Araneda	El Dasa (season 1) Michael Stuart (season 2)	Univision	4 October 2020 (season 1) 27 March 2022 (season 2)[22]	Official website
Venezuela	Buscando Una Estrella [es]	Daniel Sarcos	Omar Blanco (season 1) Jenny Anzola (season 2) Jesús Navarro (season 3) Abigail Márquez (season 4)	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 [vi]	Thanh Bạch [vi] (season 1–2, 7) Đại Nghĩa [vi] (season 3–5; kids 1-4) Quang Bảo (season 6) Duy Khánh [vi] (season 8) Long Chun (season 9)	Khởi My [vi] (Season 1) Hoài Lâm (Season 2) Thanh Duy (Season 3) Bạch Công Khanh [vi] (Season 4) Jun Phạm [vi] (Season 5) Duy Khánh [vi] (Season 6) Nhật Thủy [vi] (Season 7) Phạm Lịch (Season 8)	VTV3	5 January 2013 (season 1) 29 March 2014 (season 2) 18 April 2015 (season 3) 23 April 2016 (season 4) 13 May 2017 (season 5) 9 June 2018 (season 6) 2 November 2019 (season 7) 21 November 2020 (season 8) 5 November 2022 (season 9)	Official website
	Gương mặt thân quen Nhí [vi] (kids version)				3 October 2014 (season 1) 2 October 2015 (season 2) 7 October 2016 (season 3) 18 August 2017 (season 4)

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 to 2006, on ITV.

References