#Carla bruni young professional
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'Ambition has to play a part, it gives you discipline, sometimes aimed towards popularity, sometimes toward intimacy. The conquering flirt works hard, and Bruni does. There is something so intimate about flirting and the record is kind of flirty.' 'I'd love to be able to dance and talk, I thought I couldn't manage that but I could flirt. Onstage she is a simple pal, and an expert flirt. She used her stage fright to disarm - 'I believe you can have discomfort that can be kind of attractive' - and chose to look impeccably androgynous rather than relying on her spectacular, and therefore potentially off-putting, good looks. Her young audiences and critics from Le Monde to Rolling Stone raved.īruni's terror in appearing live is real, which made her that much more beguiling, and she knows about guile.

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She is working on an album in English, which she speaks fluently, but first there has been a series of live concerts in Paris and its suburbs, during one of which she tripped ('my legs wouldn't hold me') and during another of which she claims two elderly ladies had a nice nap. What I was trying to do with the voice is to hold it' - an embracing movement with her arms - 'because I believe there is real emotion in holding something, not in pushing out.' We made it very simple, very soft because real life is so cold and complicated. 'It's just trying to be very close, easy-listening music. Her music, she says, is influenced by a classical background and tastes ranging from Bob Dylan to Norah Jones, Chan Marshall of Cat Power, Italian cantatori - 'basically the guy with a guitar' - and folk music. When something is yours it can be pleasing or not, but it's yours, You can say I hate it, you can never say it's fake.' 'I wouldn't be singing if I weren't a songwriter, not that my songs are so great but that's what gives me the right. You're the cherry on the cake, you're not the cake.'

#Carla bruni young professional

'The audience at a fashion show is made of professional people, they're looking at the clothes, they're not looking at you. They never told us they loved us, but at least it's clearly superficial and I find that deep because everything that is allied to lucidity I find easier to cope with. 'What I like about fashion is you have no illusions. It was a glorious reign, with boyfriends like Mick Jagger, private jets and unforgettable humiliations such as having her teeth inspected like a horse's to make sure she was right for the job. (The son of the family who bought their house in Turin was in fact kidnapped.) Her older sister, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, is a successful film actress and director in France and Carla became a top model and un people. In the mid-1970s, when kidnappers were threatening wealthy Italian children, her father moved the family to Paris. Her father, Alberto Bruni-Tedeschi, was an Italian industrialist who doubled as an appreciated composer of dodecophonic music, her mother, Marisa Borini, a well-known concert pianist. 'If you're here,' she says, hitting the high keys, 'you'd better be Simone de Beauvoir or Madame Curie.'Įven mute, Bruni is very smart. It's only a difference of an octave.' She walks to her Steinway and demonstrates.

It made me look deep and made me look smart.

You know, when I was 20 years old I would walk in and say hi and the voice did make a difference. 'Husky voices give you an advantage because they make you sound intelligent. The president of the French Music Export Office hailed it as one of the triumphs of 2003. But when it came out on an independent label called Naïve, unheralded, unpromoted and unplayed by deejays, an odd thing happened: Simply by word of mouth it became a huge hit, selling 1 million copies in France and an additional 300,000 outside the country. Her record, for which she wrote most of the songs and music and played acoustic guitar, should in view of most top models' post-runway careers have been a disaster. 'That's right, stay home,' she recalls laughing. So when, rich and beautiful, she began her singing career, there was every reason to think she should keep her mouth shut. Her reign coincided with the rise of the media celeb, or le people as they are confusingly called in France, and like Claudia Schiffer or Naomi Campbell, Bruni is definitely un people. Since the evening ended with her receiving her prize and opened with her singing a number from her album, it was definitely Carla Bruni night, and not for the first time.Ī newcomer to the pop music world, Bruni was one of the top fashion models of the '90s both on the runways (Dior, Chanel) and in front of the lens (Newton, Penn). PARIS- Acouple of weeks ago at the Victoires de la Musique ceremony, the French equivalent of the Grammys, Carla Bruni won the best female vocalist award for her first album, 'Quelqu'un m'a dit,' beating the veteran Juliette Gréco.