Carla Bruni

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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
Born 23 December 1967 (1967-12-23) (age 40)
Turin, Italy
Genre(s) Singer-songwriter
Years active 2002 – present
Label(s) Downtown Records/Naive Records
Website www.carlabruni.com

Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi, known as Carla Bruni (born 23 December 1967) is an Italian songwriter, singer and model, and wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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[edit] Biography

Heiress to the Italian tire manufacturing company CEAT founded in the 1920s by her grandfather Virginio Bruni Tedeschi and sold by her stepfather Alberto in the 1970s to Pirelli (the brand lives on via its former subsidiary in India, founded in 1958),[1] she was born in Turin, Italy. The family moved to France in 1973, reportedly to escape the threat of kidnapping by the Red Brigades, a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group active in Italy in the 1970s. Carla grew up in France from five and attended boarding school in Switzerland. She returned to Paris to study art and architecture, but left school at 19 to become a model.

[edit] Family

She is the daughter of Italian concert pianist Marisa Borini and industrialist and classical composer Alberto Bruni Tedeschi. Her sister is actress and movie director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. She also had a brother, Virginio Bruni-Tedeschi (1959 - 4 July 2006). In 2007, it was claimed her biological father is Maurizio Remmert, an Italian businessman settled in Brazil.[1][2]

[edit] Career

[edit] Modeling

Bruni signed with City Models at 19. Paul Marciano, president and creative director of Guess? Inc., came across her picture among composite cards of aspiring models and chose her to model with Estelle Lefébure in campaigns for Guess? jeans. Bruni subsequently worked for designers and fashion houses such as Christian Dior, Paco Rabanne, Sonia Rykiel, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Yves Saint-Laurent, Chanel and Versace.[3] By the 1990s, Bruni was among the 20 highest-paid fashion models, earning $7.5 million a year. While modeling, Bruni dated Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger and Donald Trump.[4] On Friday, 11 April 2008, it was confirmed that a 1993 nude photograph of Bruni had been auctioned for US$91,000 (£46,098) - more than 60 times the expected price.[5]

[edit] Music

In 1997, Bruni quit the world of fashion to devote herself to music. She sent her lyrics to Julien Clerc in 1999, based on which he composed seven tracks on his 2000 album Si j'étais elle.

In 2002, her debut album Quelqu'un m'a dit, produced by ex-lover Louis Bertignac, was released in Europe with success in Francophone countries.[6] Three songs from the album appear in Hans Canosa's 2005 American film Conversations with Other Women. The song "Le plus beau du quartier" was used in H&M's Christmas 2006 commercial.

In 2005, she was a guest in Louis Bertignac's return album on the song Les frôleuses which they sang as a duet.

In 2006, Bruni recorded "Those Little Things" an English-language translation of the Serge Gainsbourg song "Ces Petits Riens", for the tribute album Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited. She participated in the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in a parade paying tribute to the Italian flag.

Her second album, No Promises containing poems by Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Auden, Dorothy Parker, Walter de la Mare, and Christina Rosetti, set to music, was released in January 2007.

Her albums are released by the French independent record label Naïve, which releases artists such as Vinicius Cantuaria and Aline de Lima.

Her music career still did not cease after becoming the First Lady. She will release her third album "Comme si de rien n'était" (As if nothing happened) on July 21, 2008. The songs are self-penned except for one rendition of Bob Dylan's You belong to me and another song with poem of Michel Houellebecq set to music.[7] Royalties from the album will be donated to unidentified charitable and humanitarian cause.[8]

[edit] Personal life

“ I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry [9] ”

[edit] Relationships

It has been claimed that Carla Bruni was involved with Louis Bertignac, Mick Jagger (Jagger's wife acknowledged his affair with Bruni was a reason for their separation), Eric Clapton, Donald Trump, Léos Carax, Charles Berling, Arno Klarsfeld, Vincent Perez[10] and former French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius.[11][12]

She has said she is easily "bored with monogamy", and "Love lasts a long time, but burning desire - two to three weeks".[12]

[edit] The Enthovens

While living with Jean-Paul Enthoven, Bruni fell in love and started an affair with his son, philosophy professor Raphaël Enthoven (track 2, Raphäel, of Carla's album Quelqu'un m'a dit is named after him), who was at the time married to novelist Justine Lévy, daughter of philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy.[13]

The affair and the ending of her marriage were inspiration for Justine Lévy's book Rien de grave (Nothing Serious), published in 2004. In it, Lévy paints a vitriolic portrait of "Paula", the female who steals the protagonist's husband, as "a praying mantis" with "a Terminator smile".[14]

Bruni and Raphaël Enthoven had a son, Aurélien, in 2001.

“ I want a man with nuclear power. [15] ”

[edit] Nicolas Sarkozy

At the end of 2007, Bruni was reported to be in a relationship with French president Nicolas Sarkozy [16] after photographers took pictures of them visiting Disneyland Resort Paris, as well as during a vacation in Luxor, Egypt and Petra, Jordan during the Christmas holidays.[17] During a press conference at the Elysée Palace on January 8, 2008, President Sarkozy confirmed their relationship and hinted at a wedding.[18]
They married on 2 February 2008 at the Élysée Palace in Paris. The marriage is Bruni's first and Sarkozy's third.

[edit] "First lady" of France

Following her marriage to Sarkozy, in February 2008, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy continued accompanying him on state visits, including to the United Kingdom in March 2008, which created a sensation in the international press and the public in the UK and France.[19]
There was controversy on the eve of the state visit to the UK, with the publication by Christie's auction house of a nude photograph of Bruni taken during her career as a model.[20] This photograph sold for $91,000.[21] There was also great interest in Bruni's wardrobe, which was Christian Dior, seen as a diplomatic choice, being a French design house designed by John Galliano, a British designer.[22]
Another controversy was the use of a popular photo of the French President and Bruni in the print advertising of Ryanair. The couple were awarded damages by a French court[23] which they donated ll to Les Restos du Cœur, an organisation which provides meals to the homeless.

In addition to her role as the First lady of France, she also holds the distinction of being the princess-consort of the Principality of Andorra, where he husband serves as one of that nation's co-princes.

[edit] Discography

  • Quelqu'un m'a dit, Released: 2003, Label: Naïve, FR. sales: 1.2 million, Charts: FRA#1 SVI#4 ITA#4
  • No Promises, Released: 2007, Label: Naïve, FR. sales: 400,000, Charts: FRA#1 SVI#1 ITA #10 EU #1
  • Comme si de rien n'était, to be released on July 21, 2008[7]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b (French) Bruni-Tedeschi, de la saga à la telenovela - Libération, February 04, 2008
  2. ^ Sharon Churcher & Harold Emert, Who's the daddy? Businessman claims to be real father of President Sarkozy's supermodel sweetheart Carla Bruni, Daily Mail, 6 January 2008
  3. ^ Carla Bruni, Fashion Insider, accessed 2008-01-07
  4. ^ Brendan Bernhard (February 2 2007). The Supermodel School of Poetry. New York Sun.
  5. ^ "Nude photo of French first lady sells in New York for $91,000", International Herald Tribune, April 11, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-04-11. 
  6. ^ biography of Bruni, RFI, accessed 2008-01-07
  7. ^ a b Carla Bruni's new pot song - The Times, May 21, 2008
  8. ^ Bruni's 'Promises' To Arrive This Summer - Billboard.biz, May 21, 2008
  9. ^ Time Magazine, vol. 170, n. 26/27, 31 December 2007 - 7 January 2008. See also.
  10. ^ (French) ON NE PARLE QUE DE ÇA | CARLA BRUNI - Gala
  11. ^ Time Magazine, vol. 170, n. 26/27, 31 December 2007 - 7 January 2008. See also: Faces to follow in 2008: Presidential Arm Candy - Carla Bruni
  12. ^ a b "Profile: Carla Bruni", BBC News, 2008-01-15. 
  13. ^ (French) When Carla Bruni broke hearts - Gala, Eliane Georges , August 17, 2005
  14. ^ John Follain, Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: Coup de foudre, Times Online, 23 December 2007
  15. ^ Sarkozy’s nuclear seduction secret is out - Times Online, 10 February 2008
  16. ^ French president, supermodel-singer linked USA Today, 17 Dec. 2007
  17. ^ Paparazzi throng for Sarkozy trip, BBC News, 25 December 2007
  18. ^ (French) Sarkozy: avec Carla, c'est du sérieuxLe Figaro January 9, 2008
  19. ^ BBC News In Pictures - Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, BBC News, 27 March 2008
  20. ^ [1], Daily Mail, 27 March 2008
  21. ^ [2],14 April 2008
  22. ^ [3], Daily Telegraph, 27 March 2008
  23. ^ Carla Bruni awarded damages from Ryanair - Telegraph, February 07, 2008

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Preceded by
Cécilia Sarkozy		 First Lady of France
2008–present		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
v • d • e
Carla Bruni
Albums
Quelqu'un m'a dit
No Promises (album)
Comme si de rien n'était
Persondata
NAME Bruni, Carla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Sarkozy's wife, model, singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1967-12-23
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH