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It’s all violence against women that I fight. If I can use my music and my fame for them, I never hesitate

— Aya Nakamura

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If I allow, through my work and my commitments, certain women to assert themselves, then it is a source of pride! I believe that influence must be useful. Otherwise it is useless

Everyone sings in my family. But I’m the only one who dared to sing ‘for real'

I was studying fashion at La Courneuve. I wanted to be a designer, but I stopped enjoying it, so I sang

At the beginning of my career, I was rather skeptical about this idea of a role model. But it is a reality: I have influence

I never took singing lessons. I was like my daughter, singing in front of videos with a hairbrush as a microphone! Probably because I was imitating the songs I watched on TV. I thought it was great

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

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