La Academia USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2006) 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 and after the cancellation of the highly anticipated "La Academia Hot-Tour" many of the ex-students of La Academia USA, including Michael, Diana, Frankie, Fatimat, Jazmin, Alex ("El Chino") and Nohelia were called back to continue singing together for their fans across the United States. Among other projects is the formation of a band by joining the voices of Ivan, Adan, 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 being born in the United States. Here are some countries where most come from: 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 [hide] 1 Participants (20052006) 1.1 Winner1.2 Finalists1.3 Eliminated2 Order of expulsion3 External links [edit] Participants (20052006)[edit] WinnerBlanca Mariana Vargas Grajeda[edit] Finalists2nd place: Gustavo Alfonso Amezcua Fuentes3rd place: Nohelia Maria Sosa Guerrero4th place: Afid Ferrer Avalos5th place: Yoshigei Cazares Silva[edit] EliminatedJazmin Olivo CeballosFrancisco Alvarado Rivera (Frankie)Adan CastilloIvan Quinonez (ivannkie)Diana Galindo MartinezHeloisa AlvesCatalina NaranjoMichael Anthony MuenchowGabriel Juan Rodriguez PolicastroAlejandro Hernandez Lopez (El Chino)Carlos Soto GarciaBianca Filio MartinezFatimat Aihassan