About Carla Bruni
You know you've been away from France too long when the name Carla Bruni still evokes images of the tall, blue-eyed brunette strutting down the runways wearing Dior and Chanel, teasing the cameras of Newton and Penn, covering the magazines as the beautiful little sister of French actress Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi. With her debut album only recently released across our Chinese shores - however untastefully labelled 'model music' - Carla La Brune remains to be rediscovered in Hong Kong. But Bruni isn't just out to prove that models have brains - she's already penned a few tunes for Julien Clerc, and she clearly speaks her intelligence through the very literate lyrics and pure melodies she wrote for herself. Les chanteuses ý paroles are a dying breed, but Bruni pays just homage to her Gainsbarre inspiration, heard in the confidence with which she sings each word. Born in Turin, raised in Paris, she claims to have a playful relationship with the language of Voltaire, singing her infatuation with the "four consonants and three vowels" of her lover's name, Raphaël. Le toi du moi is a lyrical logorrhoea of yin and yang between 'you' and 'me', while Le ciel dans une chambre is a bilingual franco-italian ballad that takes its time on each syllable. Not only is Carla rhetorically aware, she is musically adept, having taught herself to play guitar by ear, and her voice is suavely raucous in that rebellious mature woman way one might expect of a 35-year-old ex-model. Never mind the model music, Carla Bruni makes love with her guitar.
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