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VIDEO – The singer of Djadja created a surprise last July by performing a medley mixing his close songs with those of Charles Aznavour. But this collaboration has experienced ups and downs.
The singer of Djadja created a surprise last July during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games orchestrated by Thomas Jolly. Aya Nakamura revealed herself on July 26 – dressed in a golden outfit on the Pont des Arts (since renamed the Aya Nakamura bridge) alongside part of the Republican Guard – to a medley of her hits and those of Charles Aznavour. And if this performance was crowned with success, both the same evening and on social networks – his participation had sparked great controversy before the evening.
Rumors already claimed several months before the said day that she could be expected to sing. In addition to annoying her detractors, this news was even more disgusting when it was discussed that the singer would perform a song by Edith Piaf. Behind the scenes too, his participation in the big French show had not been easy.
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“Anna Wintour spoke with the Olympic committee”
A few weeks before, she had been invited to perform at another major event in the capital: the Vogue World show on Place Vendôme. “I decided to do it but before going there was a problem with the Olympics because I had to be exclusively at the Olympics”she revealed to Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine. And to add: “The Olympics didn’t want me to do the Vogue event. So Anna Wintour (editor-in-chief of the American edition of the magazine Editor's note) spoke with them because I had to.”
Her performance for the fashion magazine was finally able to take place thanks to deep motivation from the artist and fierce negotiations with the Olympic Games committee. “Basically, I had to sing Edith Piaf during the Vogue evening, and not at the Olympics. So when there were controversies, I told myself that if I participated in the fashion show, I would not sing La vie en rose but a song of my own. Like that, the Olympic committee was happy […] Anyway, a whole mess around that.”
