Young talents: record companies on the hunt for stars

At the end of March, Vincent Frèrebeau officially announced on his Instagram account the signing of Charles Doré, a 19-year-old popular semi-finalist this season of Star Academy , six of whose students have now joined a record label. This is the first time that the founder of Tôt ou Tard, a label that includes Vianney, Vincent Delerm, and Clara Ysé , has drawn from the talent pool of the TF1 singing competition. However, he claims to have never watched a daily or prime-time segment of the music reality TV show and that it all started with a request from a friend in Brittany, the singer's father-in-law, for advice. In the end, he fell in love with "a great guy, determined, touching, intelligent." He went from being a total unknown six months ago to becoming famous in record time thanks to the show's impact. The young boy already has a significant head start in his development trajectory since he is already identified and massively followed by the general public (180,000 Instagram followers, three times more for example than Adé who has already released two albums within Tôt ou Tard). "The principle of equality no longer applies