La academia USA

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La academia USA is the first musical reality show with only Hispanic contestants launched by Azteca America in October 2005. The auditions were done nation-wide and a total of 30 people were chosen to go to Mexico where they would have to spend a week working hard and showing all of what they had inside to be chosen to the final 18.

The first La academia USA concert was on November 20, 2005.

A week before the first concert, there was a special show that lasted two hours. In that show, footage from the auditions was shown. At the end, 12 of the 30 were eliminated leaving the lucky 18 that Azteca America had chosen to become the first generation of La academia USA.

One of the participants was Michael Muenchow, who was previously on Telemundo's song-based reality show Nuevas Voces De America in 2005; he was one of the 18 selected. Michael lives in San Antonio, Texas and made it to the top 13 final singers, before being expelled. His vote off was one of the results that caused the most uproar among viewers and the teachers alike. This was also true for the premature elimination, in the eleventh concert, of Diana, whom many thought would become the winner of La academia USA for her great voice, big popularity among the public and the good comments by the critics.

After three months of competition La academia USA came to an end, crowning Mariana Vargas as winner of the Latin Reality Show. As the winner and runner-up, Mariana and Gustavo respectively received contracts with Warner Music for the release of an album.

After the show ended many of the ex-students of La academia USA, including Michael, Diana, Frankie, Fatimat, Jazmin, Alex ("El Chino") and Nohelia continued singing together for their fans across the United States. Among other projects is the formation of a band by joining the voices of Iván, Adán, Catalina and Heloisa.

Being a Latin American event and taking place in an ethnically diverse country, La academia USA featured participants born in different Latin countries, or at least with Latin roots: Mexico, Venezuela, Honduras, Colombia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Brazil.

Frankie Alvarado in 2007 Frankie participated in a duet with Spanish Pop rock singer Diana Mera; the song is called "20 Pedacitos".

Contents 1 Expulsion Order 2 Participants (2005-2006) 2.1 Winner 2.2 Finalists 2.3 Eliminated 3 External links

[edit] Expulsion Order

Order	Concert 1	Concert 2	Concert 3	Concert 4	Concert 5	Concert 6	Concert 8	Concert 9	Concert 10	Concert 11	Concert 12	Concert 13	Concert 14	Concert 15
1	Adan	Adan	Adan	Adan	Adan	Adan	Adan	Adan	Adan	Adan	Adan	Afid	Afid	Mariana
2	Afid	Afid	Afid	Afid	Afid	Afid	Afid	Afid	Afid	Afid	Afid	Frankie	Gustavo	Gustavo
3	Alejandro	Alejandro	Alejandro	Alejandro	Catalina	Catalina	Catalina	Diana	Diana	Frankie	Frankie	Gustavo	Mariana	Nohelia
4	Bianca	Bianca	Carlos	Catalina	Diana	Diana	Diana	Frankie	Frankie	Gustavo	Gustavo	Jazmin	Nohelia	Afid
5	Carlos	Carlos	Catalina	Diana	Frankie	Frankie	Frankie	Gustavo	Gustavo	Ivan	Jazmin	Mariana	Yoshigei	Yoshigei
6	Catalina	Catalina	Diana	Frankie	Gabriel	Gustavo	Gustavo	Heloisa	Ivan	Jazmin	Mariana	Nohelia	Jazmin
7	Diana	Diana	Frankie	Gabriel	Gustavo	Heloisa	Heloisa	Ivan	Jazmin	Mariana	Nohelia	Yoshigei	Frankie
8	Fatimat	Frankie	Gabriel	Gustavo	Heloisa	Ivan	Ivan	Jazmin	Mariana	Nohelia	Yoshigei	Adan
9	Frankie	Gabriel	Gustavo	Heloisa	Ivan	Jazmin	Jazmin	Mariana	Nohelia	Yoshigei	Ivan
10	Gabriel	Gustavo	Heloisa	Ivan	Jazmin	Mariana	Mariana	Nohelia	Yoshigei	Diana
11	Gustavo	Heloisa	Ivan	Jazmin	Mariana	Michael	Nohelia	Yoshigei	Heloisa
12	Heloisa	Ivan	Jazmin	Mariana	Michael	Nohelia	Yoshigei	Catalina
13	Ivan	Jazmin	Mariana	Michael	Nohelia	Yoshigei	Michael
14	Jazmin	Mariana	Michael	Nohelia	Yoshigei	Gabriel
15	Mariana	Michael	Nohelia	Yoshigei	Alejandro
16	Michael	Nohelia	Yoshigei	Carlos
17	Nohelia	Yoshigei	Bianca
18	Yoshigei	Fatimat

•      The contestant was expelled

       The contestant won the competition

       The contestant was a runner-up

Heloisa Alves was an anchor for the sports show Los Protagonistas a Nivel mundial for TV AZTECA AMERICA during the 2006 Soccer World Cup, and she won the Miss Brazil USA contest on November 2007. Heloisa has recorded commercials for Bally Total Fitness, and she has done publicity for Cingular Wireless.

[edit] Participants (2005-2006)

[edit] Winner

• Blanca Mariana Vargas Grajeda

[edit] Finalists

• 2^nd place: Gustavo Alfonso Amezcua Fuentes
• 3^rd place: Nohelia María Sosa Guerrero
• 4^th place: Afid Ferrer Ávalos
• 5^th place: Yoshigei Cázares Silva

[edit] Eliminated

• Jazmín Olivo Ceballos
• Francisco Alvarado Rivera (Frankie)
• Adán Castillo
• Iván Quiñones
• Diana Galindo Martínez
• Heloisa Lopes de Oliveira Alves
• Catalina Naranjo
• Michael Anthony Muenchow
• Gabriel Juan Rodríguez Policastro
• Alejandro Hernández López (El Chino)
• Carlos Soto García
• Bianca Filio Martínez
• Fatimat Aihassan Villanueva

[edit] External links

• - La academia USA Official Site