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Former Star Academy winner Quentin Mosimann tries to get season 10 students to guess which song will serve as an anthem throughout the adventure.
TELEVISION – Even 20 years later The music, the discovery of the hymn remains a long awaited moment. During the first day of Academy of the Stars on air this Monday, October 17, after the first bonus Saturday, the images of the students discovering the castle of Vives-Eaux in Dammarie-les-Lys were broadcast.
And during this first broadcast of a daily summary of the life of the students of the ” Stella Ac ‘ “, A very special moment was expected: the revelation of the official anthem, changed for the return of the show on TF1.
In front of Mosimann, the winner of the 7th season, now DJ, the students of this tenth season have discovered the title of the piece that will follow them throughout the telecrochet. And it was with a relatively simple riddle that Mosimann let the students search for: ” It is a song that in its time brought happiness to a great singer who represented Switzerland at the time “Without waiting, Louis immediately finds the answer: Don’t go without me by Canadian singer Celine Dion.
“Celine Dion is my whole life”
It was enough for the new candidates to explode with joy at the announcement of this piece, which they will have to interpret themselves. ” It is about to change “, They are thrilled. Louis, who had found the piece, even declared: ” Of course I’m going to cry, let the boy go. Celine Dion is my whole life “.
Reworked for the occasion by Quentin Mosimann, who also confided in HuffPost as to the difficulty of updating this Celine Dion classic, which had also allowed her to win Eurovision in 1988, under the banner of Switzerland. ” It was a tanadmits. Updating an old title like that, with the label, the production box, TF1, the organization around the Star Academy (…) was a challenge “.
In the past, the students of Academy of the Stars had already tried old hits updated for the show: The music by Nicoletta in the first season, Bambooa by Ritchie Valens in season 3 or even the essentials Let me dance by Dalida during season 4, with Grégory Lemarchal in particular.
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