Sunday, June 22, 2008

Star Academy: whatever happened to...Gael Garcia ?

During the lead-up to the next series of Star Academy I'll be taking an occasional look back at some of the contestants from past years and find out what they're up to now.

I'll start with an old favourite from two years ago. Gael Garcia was the Star Academy 6 student who brought flamenco to the chateau. He also memorably walked off the show that year!

Gael released his debut CD "Barrio Caliente" earlier this year and I've also found a clip on YouTube of him bringing his own flamenco style to "Le Monde est Stone":




I don't have a start date yet for Star Academy 8 - hopefully it will be back to its usual time (beginning of September) and then I can watch it on TF1 whilst I'm in Nice. Auditions are currently in progress. No details have been revealed as to who will replace the profs who won't be returning this year.

As for Quentin Mosimann, his official site reports that his first single, the very jazzy "Cherchez le Garçon" will be released this week.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you very much with europcrazy to speak about GAËL GARCIA very sympas the article I can just add that its album Barrio Caliente is superb!!! You can come to see all that relates to GAËL on the site www.gaelgarcia.fr the site is in three French, Spanish and English languages
Annick

Anonymous said...

Thank you very much for the very sympas article.
Anita