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Carla Bruni-Sarkozi, Italian-French singer-songwriter and former supermodel, was born Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi on 23 December 1967 in Italy, the daughter of a concert pianist and an industrialist and classical composer. At the age of seven, she moved to France with her family. Her family fled for fear of being kidnapped by the Red BrigadesHer biological father is said to be the Italian-born Brazilian supermarket magnate Maurizio Remmert, who met his mother, then a newteen-year-old classical guitarist, at a concert and had a six-year aff舐e. Her sister is the actress and director Valeria Bruno Tedeschi. Her brother Virginio Bruno Tedeschi died in 2006. Carla Bruni went to Paris after school, studied art and architecture there, before embarking on a modelling career at nineteen and working in this field until 1996. There she was discovered by the creative director of Guesss for the jeans campaign. She went on to work for renowned designers such as Christian Dior, Givenchy, Paco Rabanne, Sonia Rykiel, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Yves Saint-Laurent, Shiatzy Chen, Chanel and ersace. In 1990, she was one of the highest paid models, earning US$7.5 a year. Her lovers included Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger. On 11 April 2008, a nude portrait sold at auction for US$91,000, more than sixty times the expected price.

In 1997, Carla Bruni ended her modelling career and began to pursue music. In 2002, her debut album "Quelqu'un m'a dit" was released and sold two million copies. Three of the songs were used as the soundtrack for the film "Conversations with other women" in 2005, the song "Le Plus Beau du Quartier" was used for H&M's Christmas campaign in 2006 and appeared in the film "Le Divorce" in 2003 and in the film "(500) Days of Summer" in 2009. In 2010, her song "L'amoureuse" was featured in an episode of the NBC series "Chuck vs First Class".

In 2004, she won an EBBA Award, the Eurpoean Border Breaker Award.... This award is given each year to ten artists or groups who have reached an audience outside their country with their first internationally released album.

In 2005, she wrote the lyrics for ten of the songs on Louis Bertignac's album "Longtemps" and sang two English-language duets with him.

In 2007 she released her second album Нo Promises with poems by William Buttler, Yeats, Emiliy Dickinson, W. H. Auden, Dorothy Prker, Walter de la Mare and Christina Rossetti, and in 2008 her third album Гomme si de rien n`ｴetait. For Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday in 2009, she sang at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Carla Bruni announced in a 2009 television interview that she had a role in Woody Allen's film Midnight in Paris . She stated that she was not an actress and was probably completely hopeless, but could not pass up the opportunity. When she is a grandmother, she wants to be able to tell her children that she once made a film with Woody Allen. The film "Midnight in Paris" was released in 2011, in which she played a museum guide.

In September 2010, Carla Bruni released several cover songs, including Уhe Absolute Beginners by David Bowie and the ABBA song The Winner Takes It All. In April 2013, Bruni's fourth album Little French Songs was released. In 2014, the three-part concert series. Postcards from Pairs, 2018 C''est La Vie broadcast by BBC Radio 2.

In September 2017, Carla Bruni, along with Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen and Cindy Crawford closed the Versace Spring/Summer 2018 Fashion Show as a tribute to Gianni Versace.

Bruni met newly divorced French President Nicolas Sarkozy at a dinner party in 2007. After a brief romance, they married on 2 February 2008 at the Èlisèe Palace in Paris. It was Bruni's first marriage and Sarkozy's third. Bruni received French citizenship shortly afterwards. In a broadcast of the Ellen deGeneres Show, she confirmed that she also still had Italian citizenship. Besides her native Italian, Bruni can speak fluent English and French.

After her marriage to Nicholas Sarkozy in 2008, she moved into the Elysee Palace with him. And accompanied her husband on various official visits abroad. In 2010, Forbes magazine declared Bruni the 35th most powerful woman in the world...,

Carla Bruni considers herself politically more on the left, in the tradition of her family. In 2007, had she held French citizenship, she would have voted for her husband's opponent, Ségolène Royal. She confessed "I belong to the left wing, but I am not against my husband or his party. She is not an activist. In May 2011, she told the French newspaper Le Parisien in an interview that she no longer felt part of the left wing and identified herself as an ultra-Sarkozy supporter. She did not see herself as a feminist. In an interview with Vogue Magazine, she said, "My generation doesn't need feminism. I am not an active feminist. Quite the opposite. I am a bourgeoise.".

In a letter, she opposed fur in fashion as a supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is involved in numerous charity activities.

In August 2010, the Iranian daily newspaper called Bruni a "prostitute" after she condemned the stoning of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtani for adultery in an open letter. The daily later called for Bruni's death sentence for supporting Sakineh Ashtani, for moral corruption and her own extramarital affairs. Although "Kayhan", a state-supported magazine, continued to write against Bruni, Iranian officials distanced themselves from it and publicly condemned it.

On 19 October 2011, Carla Bruni gave birth to a daughter, Giulia, in Paris. Her relationship with literature professor Raphael Enthoven produced her first child, son Aurélien, born in 2001.

Her albums:

2002: Quelqu'un m'a dit

2006: No Promises

2008: Comme si de rien n''etait

2013: Little French Songs

2017: French Touch