{"id":160,"date":"2009-12-28T10:50:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T14:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=156"},"modified":"2009-12-28T10:50:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T14:50:54","slug":"lecole-des-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/lecole-des-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;\u00c9cole des Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 2000 candidates from all over France tried out to be one of the 32 kids aged 8-12 to compete in the French TV children&#8217;s singing contest broadcast on Direct 8 called <em>L&#8217;\u00c8cole des Stars<\/em>.\u00a0 This year, the winner was 9-year-old L\u00e9o from la Loire.<\/p>\n<p>He performed the songs &#8216;Somewhere Over the Rainbow&#8217; and &#8216;Le Man\u00e8ge&#8217;.\u00a0 Then, he went on to sing \u2018Mon ami la rose&#8217; and \u2018Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps&#8217; in the semi-finals.\u00a0 He won the final with the songs \u2018Le temps qui court&#8217; and \u2018Heart of Glass&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The first season of this reality TV series was offered to the French public in 2008 and it included 50 aspiring child singers aged 7 to 14.\u00a0 A two-person jury goes about choosing which kids stay in the competition as the season unfolds.\u00a0 Each episode features a popular artist who sings a duo with the kids and helps choose which go on to the next round.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the pre-performance interview. \u00a0The kid is really cute and it&#8217;s good listening practice for beginning French learners. \u00a0The jury&#8217;s comments are also really good listening practice, especially for more advanced French learners.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ecole des Stars II: L\u00e9o Rispal &quot;Somewhere over the rainbow&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/clPNTgRtgAU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 2000 candidates from all over France tried out to be one of the 32 kids aged 8-12 to compete in the French TV children&#8217;s singing contest broadcast on Direct 8 called L&#8217;\u00c8cole des Stars.\u00a0 This year, the winner was 9-year-old L\u00e9o from la Loire. He performed the songs &#8216;Somewhere Over the Rainbow&#8217; and &#8216;Le&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/lecole-des-stars\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[316,356,415,427],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-french-culture","tag-french-kids","tag-french-songs","tag-french-tv"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28191,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/28191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}