In five minutes, the jury of “France has incredible talent” deliberated this Wednesday evening on M 6 to bring four artists to the semi-final. Marianne James, Hélène Ségara, Éric Antoine and Sugar Sammy chose four women, out of the 13 candidates who had passed the audition stage. Léa Kral, suspended by her hair, captivated everyone. Pulled by her bun, she dances in the air, free of her arms and legs. She runs, spinning above people’s heads, contorting herself in the rain. “The first time I had pain in my spine, now it’s like an osteo session,” she says backstage. “We need artistic disciplines that do us good,” applauds Sugar Sammy, who knows how, in this season, to mix humor and encouragement. He leaves his hurtful barbs in Canada.
Ultimately, Léa Kral managed to bring out her “inner madness”, her face, her gaze, changed expression. She lived her emotions, far from the frozen smile of certain artists.
Francoeur, blonde with the face of an angel, harp and beautiful voice on her shoulder, also touched the jury. His composition “The Courage of a Queen”, dedicated to his mother, moved Éric Antoine, who lost his mother a few years ago. Moment suspended in stride. Sugar Sammy, to everyone’s surprise, expressed regret for rejecting her at the auditions. “I was wrong, it’s worth seeing you again,” he said as Marianne James widened her eyes at the sniper’s mea culpa.
Marianne James bows down
The nicest guy of the evening? Hands down, Booder. The comedian, guest of honor in this first quarter-final, marveled at each visit, throwing a few jokes and always benevolent, amazed like a kid, eyes wide and mouth open in front of so much talent. He followed the auditions, recognized the candidates. And dedicated his golden buzzer to Mathieu Stepson, virtuoso of magic 2.0. This time, the thirty-year-old entered a giant phone screen, placed on the stage, which reproduced the photo from his Instagram account posted the same morning. The jack of diamonds has transformed into the jack of hearts, without anyone understanding anything.
While we thought he was on stage, he discreetly replaced the cameraman who had been filming Sugar Sammy’s phone in close-up since the beginning of the number. Marianne James, not a fan of discipline, prostrated herself. “It’s the best magic act I’ve seen in 7 years. » The singer likes modernity, she has been served. Éric Antoine blurted out “it’s great”, “ah yeah… There wasn’t a tenth of a second where I didn’t get chills. » Mathieu captivated everyone, in a lightning-fast number, where we could no longer distinguish the real cards from the fake ones on the phone screen. The audience gave him a standing ovation.
Solange Kardinaly qualified
Inverdance also earned a deserved seat in the semi-finals. This troupe of amateur dancers cried with joy when the results were announced. Aged 14 to 39, they performed inverted dancing, with their heads stuck in a low stool and legs in the air, and offered magnificent choreography. “It’s synchronized dance without water,” praised Éric Antoine. He didn’t think he was aiming so well: the founder of the troupe, Mae Leydet, had her career with the French synchronized dance team shattered by a motorcycle accident. Second hard blow after the loss of his mother, at the age of 12. The swimmer invented this dance during confinement, when she received a stool as a gift. Marianne James found the performance “even better” than at the auditions. At the level of a professional company.
Finally Solange Kardinaly, quick change expert, also reached the semi-final. The young Portuguese woman, creative and luminous, finished 4th in the trans-Atlantic version “American’s got talent”. On the set, as flamboyant and charismatic as ever, she arrived in red, changing in a tenth of a second to blue, rising into the air, clinging to a bag of dollars, only to come down in a yellow dress. While the bag let out thousands of golden party favors. “You change so quickly,” Booder gushed. Every man’s dream. »