“Racist but not deaf”: Aya Nakamura’s possible participation in the Olympics ceremony makes the far right scream, the singer responds

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“Racist but not deaf”: Aya Nakamura’s possible participation in the Olympics ceremony makes the far right scream, the singer responds

The singer was targeted by the far-right identity group “Les Natifs”. MAXPPP – MARTIAL TREZZINI

Aya Nakamura finds herself at the heart of a political and epidermal debate: the Franco-Malian star, who could sing Edith Piaf at the opening of the Paris Olympic Games, is stigmatized by the extreme right and defended by artists and the Minister of Sports.

Presented to sing Edith Piaf during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, Aya Nakamura was stigmatized during a Reconquest meeting and targeted by a banner of' #39;a small group of the ultra-right this weekend

"There's no way Aya"

Everything comes from the French weekly L'Express, which ensures that the person concerned would have mentioned with Emmanuel Macron his possible participation in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, with the possibility of resuming Edith Piaf.

Neither the President of the Republic nor the most listened to French-speaking singer in the world have confirmed, for the moment, this rumor. But this idea makes reactionaries in France bristle, with a peak reached this weekend.

Boos arose at the mention of the artist on Sunday, during a first major campaign meeting for the European elections of Reconquête, the party of Reconquest ;far right of Eric Zemmour, at the Dôme de Paris. In addition, a small ultra-right group, Les Natifs, posted on its networks a photo of a banner hung by around ten of its members on the banks of the Seine.

"There's no way Aya, this is Paris, not the Bamako market!", we can read. The expression "There's no way" is taken from his hit "Djadja", which has more than 950 million views on YouTube.

The debate is exported internationally

Aya Nakamura reacted to this banner on her social networks, spelling mistakes included: "You can be racist but not deaf… That's who hurts you! I am becoming a number 1 state subject in debates etc. but what do I really owe you ? Kedal".

With this reaction, the singer exports this debate internationally: followed by nearly 1.3 million people on ;#39;b French-speaking is often cited on Madonna's networks, her children being fans of the interpreter of "Copines".

Dadju, one of the heavyweights of r'n'b in France, rallied behind the singer on his networks: "C&#39 ;wasn't even a fight but mtn (now) she has to sing, we will support. It's not Bamako, it's not Bamako. Bunch of dogs. Will the attacks of the extreme right be counterproductive ?

"It's a controversy starting from a rancid France but it's not them who will decide. I hope she'll sing at the Olympics, it's becoming imperative, Carole Boinet, editorial director of Inrockuptibles, a French cultural magazine, told AFP.< /p>

The anti-Aya Nakamura mocks the liberties she takes with the language of Françoise Hardy, as in "Djadja", mixing vocabulary and images from the four corners of the world ("J" #39;am not your whore, Djadja, like, in catchana baby, you die that").

It's forgetting that popular music has always been nourished by easy, even simplistic, lyrics. We can cite the successes "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da" of the Beatles or "De do do do, De da da da" from police. –

Policy reactions

"I can understand that some people say to themselves: "Who does she think she is, taunting us with our French language" but it's important to accept the culture of others and I have a dual culture, the star recently told AFP.< /p>

"Aya Nakamura invented this language which is wonderful. She has crazy hits, France should be proud of having an artist like her known internationally, continues Carole Boinet, adding: “When will a bust of her as Marianne ?"

"It's amazing, it's unforgivable that racists can attack an artist for her origins and her skin color, so “that the Olympics transcend borders”, underlines to AFP Angelo Gopee, boss of Live Nation France, the national branch of one of the largest show producers in the world.

"It's not a tweet from a minister that's what we need, all politicians should be on their feet", he concludes, in reference to the message on X from the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra. "No matter how much we love you, dear @AyaNakamura, don't care about the whole world. With you,” posted the government member. LFI deputy Antoine Léaument also defended the star: "We cannot be racist and patriotic in France".

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