 In mid-October, without having toured or even played a single gig, Kamini signed a record deal with RCA for Marly-Gomont and two albums.On December 1, 2006, Kamini appeared on the French show Star Academy, a French version of "American Idol".He was profiled in December 2006 by "Time magazine" as part of its Person of the Year articles on Internet-based content creators.