Aya Nakamura

Throughout her career, Nakamura 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, 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 year after its release, the Nakamura album passed the billion streams mark on Spotify, making her the most listened-to French-language female artist on Spotify.

In February 2023, she became Lancôme's new international beauty muse.

Aya Danioko was born in Bamako, Mali on 10 May 1995. She comes from a family of griot, West African storytellers, praise singers, and poets of oral traditions. She immigrated to France with her family, growing up in Aulnay-sous-Bois. She is the oldest of five siblings.

She studied fashion at La Courneuve «Je voulais être modéliste mais cela a cessé de me plaire, alors j’ai chanté» ("I wanted to be a model maker, but that stopped appealing to me, so I sang"). She later launched into music with the stage name Aya Nakamura, after the character Hiro Nakamura of the NBC Heroes science fiction drama series.