According to the singer and producer of the 2000s, it is “normal and even logical that she sings in a ceremony which should promote France internationally”.
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Will she sing during the Paris Olympic Games? The controversy surrounding Aya Nakamura’s participation in the Paris 2024 opening ceremony continues. Mid-April, evoking “plans B and C” of the ceremony planned on the Seine, Emmanuel Macron said he hoped that the most streamed French-speaking star in the world would be one of the artists, denouncing “really racist reactions“, when the right and the extreme right saw it as a way of “divide” and D'”humiliate” the French.
The Franco-Malian singer has “perfectly at home in an opening or closing ceremony” of the Games, pleaded the Head of State, adding that the decision on the singer’s participation rested with the organizers of the ceremonies.
“It would be normal and even logical for her to sing”
The star, who many other artists have already supported, also received the support of K.Maro. Aged 44 today, the Lebanese-Canadian Cyril Kamar, a real star of the 2000s as a singer, as well as a producer, denounces the racism behind the participation of Aya Nakamura during the Olympic ceremonies.
“I am at 1000% behind her, and she has my full support. It’s backward in my opinion to think like that, I don’t even want to get into the racism part, because it’s almost a bit easy. So these arguments for me are simply backwards, young people also have their own expressions or their own language, and we have all done it, it has happened in all eras“, denounces the author of the hit”Woman Like U“.
“Each generation has its codes, and Aya Nakamura has those of her time: she speaks like thousands or even millions of young people today, and that is why so many of them recognize themselves in her music. And good for her, because she deserves it.”
Cyril Kamar
at franceinfo
“Now, as to whether she represents France or not, or whether she can take Piaf back or not, it is not up to us to judge or even decide for her ! If it was a complete scam and a fabricated thing, it would be something else. But she has a sea of people behind her who are French, not to mention her success in other countries. So it would be normal and even logical for her to sing in a ceremony which should promote France internationally. Afterwards, and this is my only nuance, I think it is important to defend and protect the French language, its beauty and its integrity, in absolute terms. But here we are talking about a performance for the Olympics“, concludes Cyril Kamar, his real name, who is releasing his autobiography, Renaissances, published by Faces Cachées.