LEA STAR ACADEMY. At 24, Léa, who is one of the 12 remaining candidates for Star Academy, is struggling to manage the stress of competition.
[Mis à jour le 24 octobre 2022 à 09h39] First week and first doubts. After the second bonus of the 2022 Star Academy season, take stock of the first days of adventure for the students. And for Léa, a candidate with a strong character, it’s time to question herself. “I won’t be able to live more than two weeks here. I won’t make it. I need to go home,” says the young woman, disappointed, after Saturday’s bonus. “I’m not capable. This week, I gave my maximum and it gave shit,” she adds, referring to her duet with singer Amir on the song Retina. “All evening, I lived it in ‘Léa you’re a disaster’ mode, so in real life I can’t wait to see the debrief to take the criticism, but it’s very, very hard. I spend my life doing the girl, but when I face reality, I lose my means.”
“I thought I was not afraid of judgement, that I was above it all. That I was the strong girl and that I loved myself so much. But in fact I realize that I don’t am not that strong and that I am a little plush heart inside”, adds Léa, in tears, in the confessional.
Léa annoys Star Academy viewers
At the castle of Dammarie-les-Lys, some Star Academy students stood out from their first moments on TF1. But not necessarily for the right reasons. This is the case of Léa, 24 years old. During the first prime, it was with a cover of Beyoncé that she had decided to present herself to viewers of the cult tele-hook. Aged 24, the Parisian did not deflate, showing her groove and her voice on the song Listen. On the second bonus, it was alongside Amir, on the song Retina, that the young woman was able to prove that she deserved her place at Star Academy.
Despite his behavior. Cropped first by Laure Balon, stage expression teacher at Star Academy 2022, then, at greater length still, by Yanis, the dance teacher, the young woman attracted the wrath of social networks after being mocked of Tiana during a singing lesson.
So when the time for the first evaluations arrives, Léa presents herself to the teaching staff in tears, the teachers offering to postpone her passage. The budding artist then made his mea culpa in the Star Academy confessional: “I did the worst things in not even two days, nobody knows me like that. There, I think I have friends, they won’t recognize me? Good the little I have, they only know me from one side, the girl who laughs and all. Even my parents when they go to see me, they will say ‘My daughter she is like that?’ They will discover me, like my parents, they don’t know me.” The start of a recovery?
Who is Léa, Star Academy candidate?
Optician in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, the young woman warned before the show in an interview with Parisian. “I have the hips of nature”. What I love are divas, like Aya Nakamura and Eva Queen”. A diva is also what her classmates called her, especially Enola, as she points out in the confessional. Indeed , since her entry into the castle of Dammarie-les-Lys, the young woman is regularly cropped by teachers, for her behavior in class, especially in dance, where she was reprimanded for a long time by Yanis Marshall, the teacher.
The music sounds obvious to the young woman who is dreaming out loud and already showing a certain composure, even when recalling her age and her few memories of Star Academy. “Making and living music has always been my dream. So I’m excited to take part in this competition… Even I’m too young to have known the BlackBerry, Facebook and Star Ac. I just watched the first seasons of The Voice : I know Jennifer but even Garou, I didn’t know who it was.”
Saturday October 15, 2022, Léa had already burst the screen and was one of the favorites of the jury chaired by Michael Goldman, director of this Star Ac’ 2022. A profile to follow, therefore, like Anisha or Enola, also noticed…