Guest on the show C to you on France 5 this Thursday, November 28, Aya Nakamura revealed that she was at the heart of a conflict of interest between the Paris Olympics and Anna Wintour. Find out why.
If she is rare in the media, Aya Nakamura has agreed to be the exceptional guest of the show C to you on France 5 this Thursday, November 28. The singer looked back on the two highlights of her summer. First of all, her epic performance at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics with the Republican Guard in July where she offered a medley of her hits and the song For me formidable by Charles Aznavour. Music that many hope to stream soon on music platforms. “It's very hard to sing this song. I struggled to sing the verse then the whole song? I have a migraine. I saw that it was appreciated. A whole cover? Why not”said Aya Nakamura on this project that everyone dreams of. She also spoke about her performance at Vogue World Paris, Place Vendôme, in June. An event that she could have missed without the help of the popess of fashion, Anna Wintour.
This “confusion” between the Olympics and Anna Wintour about Aya Nakamura
At Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine's table, Aya Nakamura revealed that she was at the center of a conflict of interest between the two events that marked her year. “Before doing this event (Vogue World Paris, editor’s note), there was a bit of a mess with the Olympics because I had to be a bit of an outcast to make the Olympics because it was in Paris”explained the French star. “The Olympics didn’t want me to do it so Anna Wintour talked a little with the Olympics because I had to do it”said Aya Nakamura before admitting to having been grateful for the support of the boss of Vogue: “So I wasn’t supposed to do that thing at all, but I wanted to do it anyway, it’s Vogue World.”
Did Aya Nakamura have to sing La vie en rose of Edith Piaf at the Olympics? She explains
Rumors claimed that Aya Nakamura would revisit La vie en rose of Édith Piaf at the 2024 Olympics. However, it is with Charles Aznavour that the judge of New school set fire to the Pont des Arts. In C to youshe reveals that it was in reality at Vogue World Paris that she had planned to regain this historic title. “Basically, I had to sing Édtih Piaf at that moment, it was not at the Olympics that I had to sing that”she said before revealing why she changed her mind: “When there were controversies, I said: 'Well if I do this thing, I'm not singing Édith Piaf, I'm doing a piece of my own like that for the Olympics, we're happy'because they said to themselves: 'It'll ruin the controversy if you sing that'they made a big deal out of it.” A mystery solved!
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