Star Academy, quickly renamed "Star Ac'", was launched on TF1 in 2001, and
revealed artists such as Jenifer, Grégory Lemarchal and Nolwenn Leroy. But the
TV talent show not only enabled the winners to make a living from their music,
but also enabled other contestants to enjoy flourishing careers, as Sofia
Essaïdi, Olivia Ruiz and Quentin Mosimann proved. Stopped in 2008 due to a drop
in ratings and public interest in its participants (Mickels Réa, the winner of
this eighth season, didn't even record an album), Star Academy was reborn in
2012 thanks to DTT and the multiplication o...