La Academia Cinco: Generación de la Luz

La Academia 5 is the fifth musical reality show in the La Academia franchise. 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 20, a first for La academia for the past 5 seasons including La academia USA only 18 finalists were selected. The first La academia 5 concert was on July 9, 2006. 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, 10 of the 30 were eliminated leaving the lucky 20 that Azteca America had chosen to become the fifth generation of La academia. After five months and 24 concerts of competition La academia 5 came to an end, crowning Samuel Castelán Marini as winner of the Latin Reality Show. As the winner and runner-up, Samuel Castelán Marini and Rocio Colette Acuña Calzada respectively received contracts with a Record Company to release an album. Second and third runners-up Marbella and Renata both released an album post-la academia.