Abt Raul’s participation in the GLOBAL JAPAN CHALLENGE 2013 (GJC) audition at age 10.
GJC 2013 was the first edition of the project. Raul passed the online audition and moved on to the in person audition, where he competed among 64 dance-focused contestants. He made it through three rounds and reached the final round and then being rejected.
GJC was a joint project by LDH and Avex to find talented kids aged 9->15. The selected trainees would spend three and a half years training in New York in English, dance, vocals, and hip hop culture, with the goal of becoming globally active artists. There were two categories: vocalists and performers.
The audition started with video submissions on Oct 30, 2013, and 34 vocalists and 64 dancers were chosen for the in person auditions on Dec 23. The final 15, most of them were all highly skilled talents from EXPG. So even though Raul didn’t make the final cut, making it that far at just 10 years old already says a lot about how talented he was.