If Aya Nakamura has always strived to combine family life and career, there are times when the agenda forces her to make a choice. And between American star and child, the singer knows how to choose.
In less than ten years of career, Aya Nakamura has managed to become the most listened to French-speaking artist in the world, to collect awards and to shine at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, while raising two daughters, born in 2016 and in 2022. Children that the singer has chosen not to expose too much, contenting herself with slipping in a few rare confidences about them in interviews.
This Thursday, November 28, the interpreter of “Djadja” was interviewed in the program “C à vous”, broadcast on France 5, and did not escape questions about her role as a mother, especially evoking her eldest daughter, Aïcha , aged 8, born just before her mother's career exploded. “She grew up at the same time as me, she saw me evolve. So she doesn’t have the same relationship with fame as the last one,” explained the artist.
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Speaking about the difficulties of mixing professional life and family, the 28-year-old singer admitted sharing the same “anxiety” as many women: “sometimes we feel guilty so I hurt myself a little to move forward and have confidence in me. But it's possible! Today I've been doing it, it's been almost 10 years and it's going well. » There are still occasions where the two elements overlap, leaving the young woman facing a difficult dilemma.
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Alicia Keys vs school show
During the show, columnist Mohamed Bouhafsi revealed that two years ago, Aya Nakamura had to choose between going to rehearse at Bercy at the invitation of American singer Alicia Keys, or going to attend the end of show. year of Aisha. “How do you know that?” » laughed the artist.
On July 7, 2022, the interpreter of “Pookie” indeed received an offer from Alicia Keys to come and join her on stage in Paris, an episode that the singer had recounted on Tiktok. Although a big fan of his colleague, the artist declined: “when you come to concerts, you have to do rehearsals. So, come between four and six hours in advance.” An organization that prevented her from being present at her daughter's school.
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Finally a compromise seems to have been found, Aya Nakamura sending her team to Bercy to begin the adjustments without her. The two singers were then able to share a duet on “No one”, one of Alicia Keys’ biggest hits. A moment that the Franco-Malian singer then described as the “best moment” on Tiktok, adding that the American star had received it “super well”.
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