The world’s most-streamed French-speaking artist reminded the media – who had torn her down with headlines each more degrading than the last – that she holds a status that has earned her the nickname ‘Queen of France’.
And with good reason: her three concerts were, of course, quickly sold out; her catalogue has racked up over seven billion streams worldwide, according to Live Nation; and contrary to what one might think, she runs her own record label.
The icing on the cake was the racist slogan that a fringe identitarian group had reserved for her on a banner unfurled on 9th of March 2024 to denigrate her performance at the Olympic Games: ‘No way, Aya, this is Paris, not the market in Bamako’ – which Aya Nakamura recreated and set alight with a flamethrower.
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