As we approach the Paris 2024 Olympic Gamesa rumor ignites the Web. Aya Nakamura, the most listened to French-speaking singer in the world, could participate in the opening ceremony of the sporting event to perform Edith Piaf. While some see this initiative as a daring way of mixing genres and highlighting French cultural diversity, others consider it an attack on the country’s musical heritage.
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“She sings really well.”
Faced with criticism, certain artists therefore made the decision to support the star. Guest on the airwaves of RTL,
Benjamin Biolay could not help but pick up on the comments made recently by Sébastien Chenu, deputy of the National Rally, on CNews.
“I heard Sébastien Chenu (RN), who is the vice-president of the National Assembly anyway, who said that he would have preferred Lara Fabian, whom I really like, but she is Belgian-Canadian. So, really, he said ‘I’m racist'”confided the artist before adding: “It’s in spite of himself, I know he would have liked to be smarter than that but, by saying that he preferred Lara Fabian, who I like a lot but who is absolutely not French, to Aya, who is, well, end of debate. Is that racist? Yes.”
And to continue: “This young woman, who has enormous talent, is our best-selling artist abroad, in French. It’s not nothing. Don’t come and spoil the party for us, once again, old boomers reactive and racist. They piss us off. Aya Nakamura, everything was going very well, and now, she is thrown out to pasture on the gogol channels, opinion channels which are not news channels, where we debate on it and we invite racists rather than musicologists. I think that Aya Nakamura singing Piaf, it could be beautiful! It could be something incredible because she sings it really well.”
“I would be delighted to hear her sing Édith Piaf” Patrick Bruel supports singer Aya Nakamura pic.twitter.com/Xd1bRcVYqM
— BFMTV (@BFMTV) March 15, 2024
Benjamin Biolay is obviously not the only one to think this way. Even Patrick Bruel shares this opinion. “How would she not represent France? I would be delighted to hear her sing Édith Piaf”, he indicated on the microphone of BFM TV. This is what is said.
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