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She is the world’s most listened-to French-speaking artist – but in France, hostility to her goes beyond the far right, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

Olympic organisers said Monday that they were shocked by the "racist attacks" against France's biggest music star Aya Nakamura over rumours she might perform an Edith Piaf song during the opening ceremony for the Games.

The possibility that France's top-selling music artist Aya Nakamura might sing an Edith Piaf song during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony has upset far-right groups.

The rapper is back with an album solely focused flute flute-playing but he's not the only one having a resurgence

She was compared to Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf. Now, fifty years after her death, Lucha Reyes finds a new audience

Kylie Minogue scored her first UK No 1 in a decade with the euphoric ‘Padam Padam’. Lucy Anna Gray speaks with the song’s producer and co-writers about the making of a summer smash hit – and why radio stations refused to play it

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New album ‘Tension’ will be released later this year

The latest ready-to-wear collections in Paris are proof that fashion is art in its own right: mere adornment making way for extraordinary craftsmanship, show after show. At Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri celebrates the 1950s, specifically the feminism encapsulated by Catherine Dior, Edith Piaf and Juliette Greco. Stella McCartney, meanwhile, offers…

Every decision you've made until now has brought you to where you are. So if you like anything about your life as it is — even though there are things you'd change — you shouldn't dwell on regrets.

The American photographer, who has died aged 97, was equally at home documenting war as she was shooting celebrity portraits