Season 13

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*Rechercher une étoile* is a French-language Canadian TV show aimed to find new singing talent. The thirteenth season, also known as ***Rechercher une étoile 2022***, started on September 3.

## Auditions

Open casting auditions began on May 19, 2022 in Granby and concluded on June 4 in Victoriaville. The minimum age to audition was 16.

After the open auditions, a number of candidates were called for a closed-door audition on August 12th and 13th, 2022. 18 candidates advanced to the introduction live show or *Niveau*, where the 16 official contestants who enter the *École d'étoiles* were selected.

## Summary

### **Épisode d'introduction (September 3, 2022)**

* **No theme**
* **Special guests:**
	+ Contestants from Rechercher une étoile 2021 - "Chantons ensemble"
	+ Contestants from Rechercher une étoile Junior 2022 - "Tout est dans le jeu"
* **End credits song:** TBA

### **Niveau 1 (September 10, 2022)**

* **Theme:** L'année de ma naissance (Year I was born)
* **Group performance:** "C'est le moment"
* **Special guest:** TBA
* **End credits song:** TBA

### **Niveau 2 (September 17, 2022)**

* **Theme:** Le choix du jury (The jury's choice)
* **Group performance:** TBA
* **Special guests:** TBA
* **End credits song:** TBA

### **Niveau 3 (September 24, 2022)**

* **Theme:** Merveilles à un coup (One-hit wonders)
* **Group performance:** TBA
* **Special guests:** TBA
* **End credits song:** TBA

### **Niveau 4 (October 1, 2022)**

* **Theme:** 70's, 80's, 90's
* **Group performance:** TBA
* **Special guests:** TBA
* **End credits song:** TBA

### **Niveau 5 (October 8, 2022)**

* **Theme:** Le choix de chansons Twitter du Canada (Canada's Twitter song choice)
* **Group performance:** TBA
* **Special guests:** TBA
* **End credits song:** TBA

### **Niveau 6 (October 15, 2022)**

* **Theme:** Films et musicales (Movies and musicals)
* **Group performance:** TBA
* **Special guests:** TBA
* **End credits song:** TBA

### **Niveau 7 (October 22, 2022)**

* **Theme:** Invasion nordique (Nordic invasion)
* **Group performance:** TBA
* **Special guests:** TBA
* **End credits song:** TBA

### **Niveau 8 (October 29, 2022)**

* **Theme:** Parti mais pas oublié (Gone but not forgotten)
* **Group performance:** TBA
* **Special guests:** TBA
* **End credits song:** TBA

### **Niveau 9 (November 5, 2022)**

* **Theme:** Grégory Lemarchal and Patricia Kaas
* **Group performance:** TBA
* **Special guests:** TBA
* **End credits song:** TBA

### **Niveau 10 (November 12, 2022)**

* Theme: Retour en arrière (Throwbacks)
* Group performance: TBA
* Special guest: TBA
* End credits song: TBA

### **Niveau 11 (November 19, 2022)**

* Theme: TikTok
* Group performance: TBA
* Special guest: TBA
* End credits song: TBA

### **Niveau 12 (November 26, 2022)**

Niveau 12 is different from other Niveau's in the season. Each contestant performed a cover song of their choice as solo, then a duo cover of another popular song. César and Sébastien did not perform any duo songs.

* **Group performance:** TBA

### **Grand Finale (December 3, 2022)**

In the final, the winner of the season is decided by public vote. Each finalist perform an original song, and after that, the first round of voting ended. The two finalists with the fewest votes were eliminated. A second round of voting began to determine the winner of the season, for which the three remaining finalists performed a hit song that was never sung in previous episodes. For the first time in the history of *Rechercher une étoile*, original songs did not have to be in French.

* **Group performances:**
	+ Medley of *Épisode d'introduction* songs (Top 5)
		- Sébastien - "Humanahum"
		- Victor - "Something About Her"
		- Bianca - "It's Only a Paper Moon"
		- Josephine - "Boomerang"
		- Christina - "Nessun grado di separazione"
	+ "Moving On Up" (Top 5)
	+ "C'est le moment" (all 16 contestants)
* **Special guests:**
	+ Previous winners' medley
		- Eva Boisselot - "Bateau de papier" (2007)
		- Patricia Bertillon - "Le remède" (2008)
		- Franck Bethune - "La vérité" (2009)
		- Anne Halphen - "Deux ailes" (2010)
		- Ivo Doumbe - "Pourquoi moi?" (2011)
		- Noémie Bonheur - "Incassable" (2015)
		- Jérémy Asselin - "Pas de retour" (2016)
		- Kaori Akisada - "Saisir l'instant" (2017)
		- Loup Chaufourier - "Je n'étais jamais" (2018)
		- Lorelei Bocuse - "Nous pouvons y arriver" (2019)
		- Clovis Mordant - "Continuez à croire" (2020)
		- Léon Guerry - "Tu m'as tout pris" (2021)