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Aya Nakamura, here in May 2024, in New York.
Music – In life, some inherit freckles from their parents, the color of their eyes or sometimes their soaked character. Others, a gift for song. Yes, it happens. And this is the case of Aya Nakamura, as a book recalls – the first – dedicated to the French -speaking singer most listened to in the world, which has just appeared in JC Lattès editions, this Wednesday, January 22.
« The singing gene is inscribed in DNA From the 29 -year -old Franco -Malian star, insists Ismaël Mereghetti to the letter G of his abécédaire, entitled Aya Nakamura, critical dictionary. « And it is not a metaphor. She inherited literally, by blood ties ”, Continue the connoisseur, before specifying: ” His mother indeed belongs to the caste of the griots. »
In West Africa, the Griot (or the Griotte) is a storyteller, an artisan of speech specialized in the transmission in music of the history and values of the peoples of his region. Appeared in a context where writing did not yet exist, this caste of “bards” retraces the past by mixing mythological epics and authentic stories.
Beyond this oral tradition, they can also play ” A role of genealogists, also leads the rites of passage, and serve as advisers or even mediators in the event of a conflict “, Specifies Ismaël Mereghetti, for whom this status is transmitted from generation to generation. “” We are born griot, we don’t become it He says.
« She had a good flow »
Throughout his youth, continues the specialist, Aya saw his mother ” Work in weddings and birthdays, tell the past events of this or that family, to launch praise to the celebrated people ». « She had a good flow “Records the main interested party on the set of C to youlast November.
-It inspired her a lot. As a child, she observes her handling of words and this ability to stage episodes of daily life, theme that will be dear to her later. Thanks to that, she would have developed a dream: that of becoming a singer, and perfected certain tools to achieve it, and in particular a good hearing memory.
If things started in front of the clips on TV with a hair brush in her hand as a microphone, Aya Nakamura has gone in less than a perfect unknown to one of the most essential interpreters in musical culture French. And this, without having ever set foot in a singing class. Thank you blood.
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