Aya Nakamura hits back in new single at racist abuse over Olympics rumour

‘You can be racist but not deaf … That’s what hurts you,’ Aya Nakamura has said of the abuse she received. Photograph: Kristy Sparow/Getty Images

The French-Malian superstar Aya Nakamura, who has been subjected to racist abuse after it emerged that she could perform an Édith Piaf song at this summer’s Paris Olympics, has used a new single to hit back at her far-right critics.

In the track Doggy, released on Friday, the 28-year-old musician sings: “I don’t have enemies, me/It’s them that don’t like me … A load of enemies/But I don’t even know them.”