Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (born Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi, 23 December 1967) is an Italian-born, naturalized French songwriter, singer, former model and First Lady of France.
In February 2008, she married French President Nicolas Sarkozy. She holds dual Italian-French citizenship. 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 (Someone Told Me), produced by ex-lover Louis Bertignac, was released in Europe with success in Francophone countries. 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. While "Quelqu'un m'a dit" was featured in the 2003 American movie Le Divorce.
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 William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, W. H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, Walter de la Mare, and Christina Rosetti, set to music, was released in January 2007.
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