![]() You can help a lot of people when you’re married to the President. There are a lot of things you can do to help others when you’re in that position. I had less time to work on my music and people expected me to only take care of the position I was in. It inspired me a lot because I had restrictions. What changed was the way people took my music. The place I was writing my songs from, my soul, didn’t change. I was 39 when we met and 40 when we were married, so it didn’t really change who I was, except that he made me very happy. It didn’t really impact my relationship to my husband. It had a greater impact on how people listened to my music, I think. It had a great impact on me personally, but I tried to not let it impact my songs. I don’t have any official duties to fulfill.ĭid becoming the First Lady of France impact you as an artist? Now that he no longer is, it’s much easier to find time. It was more difficult a few years ago when my husband was president. The good thing about music is that I can work on it at night. Thankfully I’m bringing my daughter with me when we go to California this week. I miss them terribly when I’m on tour and I get sad when I’m without them. My daughter is two-and-a-half years old and my son is 12. It’s not very practical when you have kids, which is why I prefer recording at the moment. Sometimes it makes you wish that you were twenty years old again. ![]() I love the power of it, but I’m not too crazy about touring. I loved it.ĭo you prefer performing to recording or vice versa? A lot of people didn’t agree with that, but I don’t care. I ended up falling in love with some of those poems I read and some of them I just put music to as easy as that. Reading the words of genius people is always inspiring. I ended up having a very personal relationship with those poets because I dived into their works and swam in them for a year. I was trying to find inspiration for an album by reading poetry. Where did the idea for that album come from? Your 2007 album No Promises features lyrics inspired by the works of poets Emily Dickinson and W.B. I have a tendency towards romanticism in my songs. I’m only good with lost love, or upcoming love or desperate love, etc. Every time I try to write a different kind of song it’s horrible. That’s how I ended up doing all four of my albums. I sit with my guitar and I wait for songs to come to me. Songs always come from a mix of emotion and memories. I had a great stock of memories, which is good for writing. It was very inspiring to work as a model. Were you writing songs while you worked as a model? CARLA BRUNI YOUNG FULLWhen I ended my modeling career I had a suitcase full of lyrics and melodies. I went to Africa, Russia, Japan, and China. I also wanted to travel and see the world. CARLA BRUNI YOUNG FREEMy dream was really to do music at the time, but I wanted to be free and independent and modeling helped me achieve that. When did you know that you wanted to do more with your music?Īfter I graduated high school I became a model. It’s a mix of incredible and different people. Of course Chanson Française performers like Serge Gainsbourg and Jacques Brel but also a lot of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Billie Holiday. My parents taught me to listen to classical music, but I’m influenced by all kinds of music. I never dared to sing and play in front of people but I would do it on my own for hours on end. When I started playing guitar, music writing really became a part of my life. CARLA BRUNI YOUNG HOW TOThe piano and the violin are beautiful and magnificent instruments but I never learned how to write music for either of them. When I was around 10 or 11, someone gave me a guitar and that’s when it really started. ![]() I played the piano and violin as a child. I started writing poetry when I was quite young. When they weren’t playing music they were listening to music. ![]() When we were kids, music was all over the house. Growing up, everyone in my family would play music. With the 2013 release of Bruni’s latest album, Little French Songs, the chanteuse is ready to move audiences with her intimate and romantic chansons.īoth of my parents are musicians. Her official responsibilities forced her to put the music career she had been building since her 2003 debut album, Quelqu’un m’a dit, on hold. But when, in 2008, Bruni married Nicolas Sarkozy (then president of France), after having known him for only a few months, she became a public figure of a different sort. She has sported Versace, Gucci, Yves Saint-Laurent, and Christian Dior on runways across the world. Bruni has been well known in the fashion world since the late ’80s, when her debut in a Guess jeans campaign launched her modeling career. This Saturday, singer-songwriter, model, and former First Lady of France Carla Bruni will perform at the Luckman Theatre for one of only two American shows on her current tour. ![]()
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