A week full of emotions for the students of the “Star Academy”. As soon as Saturday’s prime was over, Maureen headed to Bordeaux where she sang on stage with Slimane. At the same time, the academicians learned that two of them would go to Cannes on Friday November 1 to sing alongside David Guetta during the “NRJ Music Awards”, a ceremony broadcast on TF1.
“You understood everything”
To be among the lucky ones, the apprentice singers had to form pairs for this week of “linked destinies”. Each duo had only a few hours to learn the song “Forever Young”, an Alphaville classic released in 1984 and recently covered in an electro style by David Guetta and Ava Max. The students then showed the fruit of their work to their teachers, who had to select the best performance and therefore choose the two students who will perform on the stage of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes.
“We were very pleasantly surprised because you had very little time to prepare it and it was not an easy exercise.“, the director of the castle Michael Goldman told the students before giving them their verdict. And it is ultimately Masseo and Emma who will have the chance to share the stage with the famous French DJ. “Great performance, great energy, you understood everything, it looked like the NMAs (“NRJ Music Awards”, editor’s note). Vocally, it was very clean, which wasn’t easy. (…) I told you that we wanted to send professionals, you were of all the evaluations probably the service that most resembled a professional performance“, greeted the head of the teaching staff in a sequence broadcast this Tuesday in the daily program but available from yesterday in the live broadcast of TF1+.
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Consequently, Emma and Masseo did not participate in the Tuesday evaluations, just like Maureen, who was immunized during last Saturday’s bonus. For these evaluations, always in pairs, each duo had to choose a song to perform from a list given by the teachers, then do a theater improvisation. A crucial performance since the two least successful pairs will be on the bench of nominees next Saturday. A duo will be saved by the public, and the students will have to decide between the two remaining academicians. The one who has received the fewest votes from their comrades will then have to leave the adventure.
