Aya Nakamura had to sing Edith Piaf…for the Vogue World Paris fashion show. The Franco-Malian singer revealed this Thursday, November 28 on the set of C à Vous that she was to perform La vie en rose, not for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, but for the Vogue World event.
On June 23, Aya Nakamura made a remarkable performance at Place Vendôme by opening the festivities of the Vogue World fashion show, a global event organized by the famous fashion magazine. The singer appeared in a haute couture dress by Jean Paul Gaultier and performed, Flytitle of his third album, Aya, in a symphonic version. But Aya Nakamura revealed that the original program was completely different. “Basically I had to sing Édith Piaf at that moment. I wasn't supposed to sing it at the Olympics! “, she explained. But faced with the controversies to which she was the subject at that time, the artist decided to choose a piece from her personal repertoire. Another revelation made live, Aya Nakamura said that she should never have participated in the Vogue event. “Before, there was a problem with the Olympics. I must have been a bit excluded to just do the Olympics, because it was in Paris. So they didn't want me to do it [Vogue World]Anna Wintour had to talk to them because I had to. So I wasn’t supposed to do that thing at all,” she said.
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Controversies
Last February, L’Express revealed that the president Emmanuel Macron had asked Aya Nakamura to take back a title from Edith Piaf for the Olympic Games. The rumor had stirred up the far right, which had a strong opinion on which performers were legitimate or not to sing Edith Piaf and represent France. During the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 26, Aya Nakamura did appear, this time wearing a Dior dress, but had regained the title For Me Formidable of Charles Aznavour alongside the Republican Guard. And it is Celine Dion who had interpreted The Hymn to Love by Edith Piaf at the end of the evening from the top of the Eiffel Tower. If the two events were a triumph and allowed the singer to benefit from international media coverage, Aya Nakamura says she was touched by the controversies against her during this period. “It’s still my passion, we touched on something that makes me vibrate naturally,” she declared. “Afterwards, I am the first from my background to do what I do. I'm getting the ball rolling. You can't arrive like that, be a renoi, you come from Aulnay-sous-Bois and sing directly at the Olympics for France. I felt like I was in a movie. »
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