In 2002, Emma Daumas joined the cast of the second season of star Academy. Despite the passing years, the singer, now a mother of two, has never forgotten her passion for song and is releasing a fifth album, entitled The art of shipwrecks. A new opus, for which she received the help of a sacred monster of French song: Maxime Le Forestier. She had met him on the set of the show then presented by Nikos Aliagas and since then, they have never left each other. But this is not the only artist that Emma Daumas met during her stay in the castle of La star Academy and, as she said on the show We are live sure France 2 on Saturday February 13, 2021, there is one in particular that marked her: Johnny Hallyday, with whom she sang the song That I love you. "I lived extraordinary moments on this show. With Ray Charles too, with Serge Lama…", recalled the young woman of 37 years. "But Johnny yeah, it was a monument, it was absolute power. And then at the same time, a generosity, a simplicity. That's what I loved about this character. He was the biggest star. of the French song and yet she was an extremely simple and generous person ".
Emma Daumas, her worst memory of "Star Academy"
The one who is still in contact with her classmates, including the winner Nolwenn Leroy, also explained that his participation in the show had inspired him one of the songs of this new album. "The castle not really, but rather the call of the sirens, the song of the sirens …", she confided to Laurent Ruquier. "Which obviously charms us and seduces us in all this wonderful world that is that of television and the music industry". But the young woman does not keep only good memories of this televised adventure. In November 2020, she confided in Non Stop People about "his worst experience" within the program: “It was once in a dressing room where I was locked up waiting to be able to see my parents who I couldn't see on the show. I knew my parents were next door and I couldn't see them, because there was a surprise planned the next day on the set. This is something that I experienced badly. I remember being extremely frustrated, to have wanted to break everything, because I knew that my relatives were there, I needed them and I couldn't see them. I said to myself 'I'm going to rest' but I couldn't even undress. That's a bad memory ".
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