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The announcement comes as her last album, 2018's NAKAMURA, surpasses one million album sales worldwide and 3.5 billion streams globally, bridging Europe, Africa and Latin America. NAKAMURA earned Aya ...

How does one reinvent themselves after becoming, in under a decade, a cornerstone of the French music scene, with over six billion streams? “I’ve asked myself that question,” Aya Nakamura admits. “My ...

Aya Nakamura gave a grand performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony when she performed two of her hit songs, “Pookie” and“Djadja” as well as Charles Aznavour's “For Me Formidable." On ...

Aya Nakamura's music gets played a lot - billions and billions of streams. This one track called "Djadja" off her 2018 album, "Nakamura," has more than 390 million plays on Spotify alone. (SOUNDBITE ...