Carla Bruni
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Carla Bruni Tedeschi (born Turin, Italy, 23 December, 1968), is an Italian[1] songwriter, singer and former supermodel. She is the step daughter of industrialist and classical composer Alberto Bruni Tedeschi and Italian concert pianist Marysa Borini. Actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi is her sister. It has since been revealed that her biological father is a businessman called Maurizio Remmert.[2]
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France confirmed on January 8, 2008, that he is in a serious relationship with Carla Bruni, and that he intends to marry her at an unspecified date[3]. She would then become First Lady of France.
Biography
Born in Turin, she grew up in France from the age of five and later attended boarding school in Switzerland. She eventually returned to Paris to study art and architecture, but left school at 19 to become a model full-time. Her mother and father were musicians and they inspired her to become a musician also.
Career
Modelling
Heiress to Italian tire manufacturing Pirelli fortune, Bruni signed with City Models at age 19 and her career began. Paul Marciano, president and creative director of Guess? Inc., came across her picture among a stack of composite cards of aspiring models and chose her to model with Estelle Hallyday in ad campaigns for Guess? jeans. Bruni subsequently worked for a number of designers and fashion houses, such as Christian Dior, Paco Rabanne, Sonia Rykiel, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Yves Saint-Laurent, Chanel, Versace, and others.[4] By the 1990s, Bruni was among the 20 highest-paid fashion models, earning $7.5 million a year. While modeling, Bruni dated Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger, Donald Trump and Kevin Costner.[5]
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 Louis Bertignac, was released in Europe to great success.[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 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 section 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.
Personal life
"I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry"[7]
While living with Jean-Paul Enthoven, Bruni fell in love and started an affair with his son, philosophy professor Raphaël Enthoven, which caused Raphaël to divorce novelist Justine Lévy, daughter of philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy.[8] The affair and the subsequent ending of her marriage were the inspiration for Justine Lévy's best-selling book Rien de grave ("Nothing serious"), published in 2004. In the book, Lévy paints a vitriolic portrait of "Paula", the female who steals the protagonist's husband, as "a praying mantis" with "a Terminator smile".[9]
Bruni and Raphaël Enthoven were subsequently married and had a son, Aurélien, born 2001. They have since separated.
Bruni has also dated Donald Trump and Mick Jagger.[7] Jagger's wife acknowledged his affair with Bruni was one of the reasons of the separation.
Future First Lady
As of the end of 2007, she is reported to be in a relationship with French president Nicolas Sarkozy[10] 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.[11] Sarkozy's office would not comment on the relationship.[12] A flurry of pictures and newspaper stories confirming the relationship have since emerged on December 27, 2007.
During a press conference at Elysee Palace on January 8, President Sarkozy confirmed his relationship and his intention to marry Carla Bruni. He declared : "With Carla, it's serious. There are strong chances that you'll learn about it [ the wedding ] when it's already happened."[13]
Discography
Quelqu'un m'a dit
Charts: FRA#1 SVI#4 ITA#4
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No Promises
Charts: FRA#1 SVI#1 ITA #10 EU #1
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References
- ^ Template:Fr http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/medias/presse/20071218.OBS0821/carla_bruni__je_voterai_toujours_a_gauche.html http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iy8DslXM5caaWSMBbEbcNrX5ka3w http://www.letemps.ch/template/transmettre.asp?contenupage=nlreader&page=newsletterdisplay&id=12&NLArtID=11662 http://www.rtlinfo.be/news/article/75185/--Sarko+et+Carla+au+pays+des+Pharaons
- ^ 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
- ^ Sarkozy: Relationship is seriousCNN January 8, 2008
- ^ Carla Bruni, Fashion Insider, accessed 2008-01-07
- ^ Brendan Bernhard (February 2 2007). "The Supermodel School of Poetry". New York Sun.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b biography of Bruni, RFI, accessed 2008-01-07
- ^ a b 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
- ^ Eliane Georges, "When Carla Bruni broke hearts", Gala (print edition), 17 August 2005Template:Fr icon
- ^ John Follain, Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: Coup de foudre, Times Online, 23 December 2007
- ^ French president, supermodel-singer linked USA Today, 17 Dec. 2007
- ^ Paparazzi throng for Sarkozy trip, BBC News, 25 December 2007
- ^ French President Dating Supermodel Bruni, Sky News, 17 December 2007
- ^ «Avec Carla, c'est du sérieux» Libération January 8, 2008