Aya Nakamura
Aya Coco Danioko (born 10 May 1995), known professionally as
Aya Nakamura, is a French-Malian singer-songwriter. She began publishing her music online, gaining a following with the songs "Karma" and "J'ai mal". Dembo Camara, a longtime friend, became her producer and manager. Her song "Brisé" garnered traction on
YouTube, and a duet with rapper
Fababy, "
Love d'un voyou", resulted in her charting in France for the first time. She released her debut album, ''
Journal intime'', in 2017, followed in 2018 by ''
Nakamura'', which was certified diamond in France and has sold more than 1.2 million copies worldwide. The album spawned the hit singles "
Djadja" and "
Copines" and launched the singer's international career. The same year, she beat the record held by
Édith Piaf since 1961 as the most-listened-to French-speaking female artist in the Netherlands.
Throughout her career, Nakamura has accumulated
five number-one songs and a number-one album in France. She was awarded a
Victoires de la Musique award for her 2020 album, ''
Aya'', which was certified double platinum in 2023, having sold 200,000 copies. She also won an
NRJ Music Award and received multiple nominations for the
MTV Europe Music Award for Best French Act. Two years after its release, ''Nakamura'' surpassed a billion streams on
Spotify, making the singer the most-listened-to French-language female artist on the platform.
In February 2023, she became
Lancôme's international beauty muse.
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