Bonjour dear listeners for this special season of the dual

lingo French podcast we are celebrating the arts. We're revisiting some of our

favorite episodes featuring singers, dancers, actors, and other performers in the Francophone

world. Today's episode is from August 2021 and it takes us to the middle of the Indian Ocean, where we meet Waida Bakari.

Waida lives on the tiny French-speaking island of Mayotte, and she was just 17 years old when her mother

signed her up for an opera competition. The only problem, Waiida had barely even

heard of opera.

Listen to the episode to find out how she did,

and stay tuned until the end for an update on what Waida has been up to.

And now, on to the episode.

It was spring 2020 in the early weeks of the pandemic

and 17 year old Waida Bakari was lying on her bed at home on the island of Mayotte.

Myot is a French overseas territory, a department of the tromer.

Waidda was flipping through her phone and she was singing to herself?

She was almost always singing.

Suddenly an email popped up in her phone's inbox.

This email you need a person that I've not seen.

I'll be you.

Felicity, you have been selection

to participate in concur,

to concur,

to meet with her one of the others. Concure, what's other mer? I think, a concur, what is the concur? I'm not

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