2024-01-06 00:00:00
Émily Bégin and Marie-Élaine Thibert spoke enthusiastically regarding the reunion of the first vintage of Star Academy when the question “what would your life be without the show?” plunged the finalist of the first season into an intriguing introspection.
His conclusion? His career in music would have taken off quite later due to his introverted character.
“I’m tenacious in life, but I didn’t have the personality to go for it. I would perhaps have taken off 20 years later,” confided Marie-Élaine Thibert during an interview with The newspaper.
At her side, Émily Bégin suggested that she might have done The voice in place.
One thing is certain, added Marie-Élaine Thibert, Star Academy brought him out of his shell. “This show required us to always be in front of the cameras, to do a thousand interviews every Sunday. It forced me to become sociable, to be better in interviews, to not just answer yes or no.”
Anecdotes
Twenty years later, the two singers will reunite with Wilfred, Marie-Mai, Annie, Suzie and all the participants of the Star Academy inaugural, Stéphane de Normétal included, for two shows at the Bell Center and the Videotron Center, January 12 and 19, a production called And it’s not over.
This idea of reuniting on stage was born during the pandemic in a Messenger group bringing them all together and which all fans of the famous reality TV would surely want to spy on.
“No, we won’t show it to you,” Émily Bégin said with a smile, cutting short all our hopes of collecting tons of tasty anecdotes by going through the group in question, where there were some bad and bad things to say. blackberries, words of the singer.
“Sometimes it’s funny in tabarouette. We are really brothers and sisters, we become kids once more. We say stupid things to each other like back then. I often joke that it’s almost better that our boyfriends and girlfriends aren’t there when we get together, they don’t know what we’re talking regarding.”
That said, even in an interview, the two singers cannot help but dig up memories, like the time, following the second gala when the academicians had to eliminate one of their own live in front of all of Quebec, where the famous Stéphane had stolen a case of wine before leaving Mels studios.
“We had been drinking on the bus and when we arrived at the academy we were a little tipsy. I think it was because of stress and emotion,” says Émily Bégin.
Classics
There will also be emotion on January 12 and 19, assure the ex-academics. Nostalgia too, which will be reflected in the musical choice of this show directed by Joël Legendre.
“I want to be part of the gang,” says Marie-Élaine Thibert, “I want to sing regarding memories, not promote something new.”
“People want to hear the good old classics from 2003,” explains Émily Bégin. They want the songs from the album which has sold almost 700,000 copies. There are essentials and also new songs, but which are current and work with the show and the artist.
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