She sits on Time Square and rules the world of song.
In November, Aya Nakamura was displayed tens of meters high for the promotion of her new album
Aya
.
The singer, dressed in a multicolored dress, was as tall as a building, a moment immortalized on the networks.
Megalo?
Not without reason;
the numbers speak for her.
Today she is the most popular French-speaking artist abroad.
More than 12 million listeners downloaded her third album in just four days to Spotify.
For comparison, the rappers of PNL and Vald are listened to by just under 2 million people per month.
Its success, it explains the most simply of the world.
For the singer born in Bamako who grew up in Aulnay-sous Bois, in the Parisian suburbs, the music "
is without barrier, without border, especially for international artists with double cultures
", as she told it to RTL.
New proof of its success, the American Coachella festival had invited it for its 2020 edition. The consecration is postponed, due to the pandemic, but the symbol remains.
Only a handful of French people, like Daft Punk or Christine and the Queens, had the honor of being scheduled for Coachella.
"
I, who thought that Americans had trouble with foreign languages, that proves the opposite to me
," she exclaimed, not without irony, in
Le Parisien
, once the program was revealed.
Aya Nakamura is a tube machine.
In 2018,
Djadja
had accompanied the steps of the dancers in at least the whole of France.
To date, the song has more than 700 million views on Youtube.
The
Nakamura
album
(2018) has sold over a million copies.
Released this summer,
Jolie nana
follows in the footsteps of her previous hits.
It punctuates a summer period of freedom, between two confinements, before the entire album comes to confirm the commercial expectations.
500,000 copies have already been sold.
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In France, his language makes people talk.
Elsewhere, the senses take over.
The melodies move.
Words mark time - as is so often the case, in France, with Anglo-Saxon hits.
We sing Aya without necessarily understanding her.
Slang is for once at the center of the debate.
Aya Nakamura, icon of the suburbs?
She defends herself and has pierced the glass ceiling anyway.
Aya Nakamura, feminist icon?
Is she a feminist?
"
I still do not know what that means,"
she replies in the program
Women powerful,
on France Inter.
At the microphone of Léa Salamé, she supposes that "
it is a woman who assumes, I think, who is not afraid to say what she thinks, to be herself, in truth
".
The one who makes Madonna and Rihanna dance breaks taboos, talks about her favorite sexual positions in
Favorite.
In
Oumou Sangaré,
three years ago, for
Journal intime,
her first album, she paid tribute to the immense Malian singer, like her, for her commitment against excision.
“
Maybe today, I will have to do the same fight, that is to say help these women, to stand up, to carry them, to support them, to help them with doctors. .
I think it's important,
”she explains on France Inter.