On Saturday evening, season 11 of
“Star Academy”
closed its doors.
At the end of an evening full of twists and turns, Pierre was crowned winner against Julien.
For three hours, the two young men faced each other one last time with the same friendship as throughout the three months of competition.
From the first minutes of the evening, Nikos Aliagas invited viewers to vote for one or other of the finalists.
And they voted en masse for the 21-year-old from Normandy who received 55.6% of the votes, compared to 44.4% for the 24-year-old from Palois.
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Several renowned artists made the trip to studio 217 in La Plaine Saint-Denis to perform one of their songs with Pierre and Julien: Vitaa, the godmother of the season, Patrick Bruel, Patrick Fiori, Tayc, Dadju and Iseult.
It was alongside the eleven other students of the promotion that they entered the stage to perform their anthem,
Au bout de mes rêve
, by Jean-Jacques Goldman.
The competition really started with
Cassez la voix
.
Installed to the side, Patrick Bruel couldn't help but join Pierre and Julien on stage.
A special moment for the singer who performed his title with Grégory Lemarchal in 2004.
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Then, the two finalists took turns either as a duo or alone in front of the public.
Pierre sang
Corps
with Iseult then
I wanted to tell you that I'm waiting for you
by Michel Jonasz.
Julien covered
Non, je ne regrette rien
by Édith Piaf and shared a duet with Patrick Fiori on
Que tu reviens
.
Each of the two young men was entitled to a retrospective of their adventure.
When Julien sang
Le Temps des Cathédrales
again, a title which had already given him a hard time during the fifth bonus, his voice hoarse.
“Oh shit,”
he said, eyes wide open but still smiling.
A few minutes before the end of this final bonus, Pierre was treated to quite a surprise.
Indeed, when he was to perform
Compliqué
with Dadju, the latter decided to interrupt everything to let the candidate sing one of his compositions.
“I want to have fun and today, I don’t want us to sing Dadju, I want us to sing Pierre
,” he said without having warned in advance Nikos Aliagas or production.
“I know that Uncle Nikos doesn't like unexpected events live like that
,” remarked the singer, visibly amused by the situation.
"It was not planned.
I'm behind the scenes, I wasn't aware either so well done Dadju, that's also what being an artist is, adapting.
It’s a first for “Star Ac’”
confirmed the host while Pierre prepared to perform
What We Were
.
The evening ended in a very warm atmosphere, like the friendship with which the thirteen candidates of this 2023 edition of “Star Academy” are linked.
Together, they covered
Famille
by Jean-Jacques Goldman, some with real emotion.
And it was only at 12:15 a.m. that Pierre was named the big winner of this season.
When his victory was announced, he literally threw himself on his opponent's back.
“But what a moment, what a sequence, what a journey, what emotion!
Look at this image, this is what we remember from this season, solidarity, fraternity, sharing and joy!”
, commented Nikos Aliagas.