Amid the counterculture engulfing the Western world, France's May 1968 political turmoil found its flames fanned by the era's pop hits in the country's charts.

I've since streamed her wildly fun "Kongolese Sous BBL" a couple dozen times — a bombastic bouyon-influenced club banger with a wacky beat that one of my coworkers compared to "a SpongeBob robot" but ...

Aya Nakamura’s music is one of France’s top cultural exports. But reports that she might perform at the Paris Games have prompted fierce debates over identity and language. Aya Nakamura is France’s ...