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Nakamura is French-Malian singer Aya Nakamura's second studio album. It put her under the spotlight for a much larger audience to her contemporary pop and r&b music.

It was released on November 2, 2018 and announced on her social media. The promotion of the album was mostly done via two singles she released earlier in the year, "Djadja" and "Copines", which at the same time allowed her to gain more visibility throughout the summer.

The labels that produced this album were Rec. 118 and Parlophone, and the tracks were in majority produced by Julio Masidi, Le side and Timo, french beatmakers and producers. The album was generally well received with positive reviews while it also broke some records regarding the streams.

Artist's biography
Aya Nakamura, whose real name is Aya Danioko, is an RnB singer from Mali. Born May 10, 1995 in Bamako, she arrived in Aulnay-sous-Bois as a child and grew up in Seine-Saint-Denis. Issue of family of Malian griots, she is rocked by music and traditional songs during her childhood, with her sister singing and her mother being a very-well know griot, or a class in of artists practicing music, poetry and story-telling. After graduating, she started by fashion studies, but realised it wasn’t meant for her and gave up to devote herself to her first passion, singing.

She chose the pseudonym Nakamura, in reference to a character from her favorite series, Heroes, called Hiro Nakamura who she finds inspiring. Her career represents is a quickly-born success story that evolved in just a few years. Pushed by her desires Aya Nakamura quickly wrote his first tracks and his first songs. She used social networks for public opinion to know if her songs are good, if people like them. Her first title is quite remarked, «J’ai mal», which is a melodious zouk-inspired song with a Kompa background. The young woman writes on subjects that concern her everyday life like relationships or love. After reaching 3 million views with «J’ai mal», Aya Nakamura decided to go more in depth in the world song and released, in 2017, Journal Intime her first album with a few hits that made her way more famous: “Brisé” but mostly “Comportement”. For a vast majority of her current public, one song really propelled her at the top of the charts. The song is “Djadja”, which is about her personal experience on infidelity and cheating in relationship.

In 2018, after the release of “Nakamura”, she was nominated as the French revelation of the year (NRJ music awards) and she has won best female artist of the year. She’s often said that she manages music and the success that comes with very well, by surrounding herself of people she trusts, keeping her regular life and routine but also by not listening to the many critics she receives on a daily basis. Without doubt she affirmed herself overtime as we can see on the evolutions of her albums and its lyrics. She often claims her songs have the goals of empowering women, either by being more confident with their body, to dance and whine, either after hard relationships. She’s managed to put herself under the spotlight with a complex-less image despite the critics she received, and how she’s been discouraged as a black woman in France. Today she’s one of the current big names of pop and R&B music in France.

Background
Nakamura is Aya's second studio album and has essentially been promoted by the success of summer 2018's hit songs, "Djadja" and "Copines", which are singles extracted of the album. She announced the release of Nakamura on her personal instagram page @ayanakamura_officiel and twitter on October 5th, 2018. It's a promotional clip showing the album's cover with the release date on it as well as video clips showing her working in the studio where she's singing, listening to her songs alongside her beatmaker: basically creating her project. The background is an unpublished exclusive song of hers: a melodious song on how her significant other makes her strong. The extract is entitled "Soldat" which translates to soldier. She captionned the whole post "NAKAMURA - 02.11.2018"

Commercial performance
Over the last 2 years, her success has been ever-growing, she went from being an artist only local connoisseurs of this particular genre know, to an international artist. From collaborating with local artists such as Fababy or Naza, she started to collaborate with Nigerian artist Davido on “Gang”. Also, Loredana featured on Nakamura for a remix of the hit “Djadja” which was platinum in the Netherlands for being Top 1 single for four consecutive weeks. Her other single, released later the same year, is entitled “Copines” and is certified gold single (with more than 15 million streams) in France.“Copines” was number 1 according to the SNEP.

The album itself, called Nakamura after her own stage name, is now gold disc with more than 50 000 albums sold. It also broke some records: 1st french female artist to occupy 6 places on Spotify and 9 on Apple music, first french female artist to have her album as Top 1 on the two same platforms as well as fastest kick-off on these two platforms in her category. All of these rankings occurred 24 hours after the launch of the album.

After the success of Nakamura, she announced a national promotional tour with 12 dates for now. She also got known on an international scale right after and gave interviews for overseas journals such as The Fader. Plus, not only was she in the European Top 10, but American models and singers like Iman Hammam and Justine Skye were seen jamming to Djadja.

Certfication
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Track listing
''' Nakamura- streaming, digital download, physical copies

Personnel
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⋅Perfomers⋅
'' Aya Nakamura

Niska

Davido

Loredana (remix - deluxe version)

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⋅Producers⋅
'' Aya Nakamura - Starow - Laconi

Timo - Le Side - Noxious

Julio Masidi - Double X - Ever Mihigo

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Sample credits
' Pompom'', the third track on Aya's album samples and interpolates the hit "Pom Pom Pom" by Facteur X (2004). Some also qualify it as a cover since the chorus is the same. It's the only track on the album that is sampled and not produced for Aya Nakamura, by her beatmakers.