Bruni was born in Italy and moved to France at the age of seven. She was a model from 1987 to 1997 before taking up a career in music. She wrote several songs for Julien Clerc that were featured on his 2000 album, Si j'étais elle. Bruni released her first album, Quelqu'un m'a dit, in 2003, which eventually spent 34 weeks in the top 10 of the French Albums Chart. Bruni won the Victoire Award for Female Artist of the Year at the 2004 Victoires de la Musique. The same year, Bruni released her second album, No Promises, then the following year, she released her third album, Comme si de rien n'était. In 2013, Bruni released her fourth album, Little French Songs. In 2017, Bruni released her fifth album, French Touch. She has sold 5 million albums during her career.
In 1997, Bruni quit the world of fashion to devote herself to music.[4] She sent her lyrics to Julien Clerc in 1999, based on which he composed six tracks on his 2000 album Si j'étais elle.[15]
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In 2003, her debut album Quelqu'un m'a dit, produced by Louis Bertignac and released in Europe, was a surprise hit, selling 2 million copies.[15] Three songs from the album appear in Hans Canosa's 2005 American film Conversations with Other Women,[16] the song Le Plus Beau du quartier was used in H&M's Christmas 2006 commercial, and the title track was featured in the 2003 movie Le Divorce[17] and in the 2009 movie (500) Days of Summer.[18] In January 2010, her song "L'amoureuse" was featured in an episode of NBC's Chuck, "Chuck vs. First Class".[19]
In 2004, Carla Bruni won an EBBA Award. Every year the European Border Breakers Awards (EBBA) recognize the success of 10 emerging artists or groups who reached audiences outside their own countries with their first internationally released album.
In 2005, she wrote the lyrics for 10 out of 12 songs for Louis Bertignac's new album Longtemps, and performed two duets with him on the album, Les Frôleuses and Sans toi.[20] 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 took part 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 Rossetti, set to music, was released in January 2007.
She continued recording after her marriage. She released her third album Comme si de rien n'était on 11 July 2008. The songs are self-penned except for one rendition of "You Belong to Me" and another song featuring Michel Houellebecq's poem La Possibilité d'une île set to music.[21] Royalties from the album will be donated to unidentified charitable and humanitarian causes.[22]
In September 2009, she recorded a duet with Harry Connick, Jr. for the French edition of his album Your Songs. They sang The Beatles' song "And I Love Her".[24] The album was released in France on 26 October 2009.[25]
The song "Raphaël" from Bruni's album Quelqu'un m'a dit is about her relationship with Raphaël Enthoven, and Justine Lévy's 2004 book Rien de Grave (published in English in 2005 as Nothing Serious) is about the end of her marriage; a character named "Paula" represents Bruni.[4][50] Bruni told Vanity Fair that Raphaël Enthoven ended their relationship in May 2007 because he felt they had become "like friends", and that they remained on good terms.[4]
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is involved in various charitable activities. She gave her royalties for her album Comme si de rien n'était to the Fondation de France,[69][70] and supports different events or causes, such as the Born HIV Free campaign,[71] animal rights,[72][73] the Nelson Mandela foundation, the French association AIDES for AIDS research, the French association La Chaîne de l'Espoir or the association Warchild UK. She also participated in a concert with Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin for the 91st birthday of Nelson Mandela,[74][75] and recorded a song for the album We Were So Turned On: A Tribute to David Bowie.[76] She is involved in the promotion of young artists, and did a duet with French singer Marc Lavoine for the Prix Constantin, an annual French music prize awarded to newer artists.[77][78] Bruni met the Dalai Lama in August 2008 at Lerab Ling, a Buddhist temple on a hill in Languedoc, France.[79] Bruni received Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to France in September 2008.[80]
Virginio Simonelli, conosciuto solo come Virginio (Fondi, 31 gennaio 1985), è un cantautore italiano.[1] Ha debuttato nel 2006 partecipando al Festival di Sanremo nella categoria Giovani con il brano Davvero[2]. Pubblica poi con Universal Music il suo primo album Virginio e firma con Sony Music un contratto come autore. Nel 2011 ha vinto la decima edizione di Amici di Maria De Filippi[1] nella categoria canto e ha pubblicato il suo primo EP Finalmente[3]. Ad oggi le sue vendite superano le 30 000 copie e tra i premi ricevuti vi è anche un Wind Music Award oro[4].
Approcciatosi alla musica sin da piccolo, da adolescente impara a suonare il pianoforte. Dopo la maturità classica si trasferisce a Milano, dove frequenta la Nuova accademia di belle arti ed entra in contatto con Paolo Agosta e Ivo Grasso, con cui comincia a collaborare.[2]Nel 2006 partecipa al 56º Festival di Sanremo nella sezione Giovani[5] con un brano da lui scritto, Davvero, venendo eliminato nella seconda serata.[6][7] Davvero anticipa il suo primo album Virginio[8] prodotto da Grasso e Fabrizio Grenghi. Dall'album, i cui testi sono scritti dal cantante insieme ad Agosta,[9] che ne ha composto anche le musiche, vengono estratti i singoli Instabile e Novembre.[2]
Il 16 marzo 2012 viene pubblicato il brano Alice (Elis), singolo apripista del secondo album di Virginio Ovunque. L'album, pubblicato il 26 marzo 2012,[17] debutta alla 12ª posizione della Classifica FIMI Album. Partecipano come co-autori Niccolò Agliardi, Bungaro e di nuovo Roberto Casalino e Saverio Grandi. Inoltre, Gary Barlow (leader dei Take That) e Eliot John Kennedy donano a Virginio Catch Me, canzone trasposta in italiano dal cantautore in Tu mi senti. Il 13 luglio viene pubblicato il secondo singolo estratto dall'album: La dipendenza.[18]
Tra febbraio e aprile 2022 è coautore del brano Quello che abbiamo perso di Giusy Ferreri, presente nell'album Cortometraggi[55] e duetta con Bianca Atzei nel singolo della cantante Collisioni. In estate pubblica il singolo M'incanta per Universal Music Italy[56] e scrive con Daniele Coro Il panda con le ali, brano partecipante alla 65ª edizione dello Zecchino d'Oro e risultato vincitore della manifestazione.[57][58]
Le vendite dell'album sono state supportate anche dal primo singolo estratto, Ad occhi chiusi, che debuttando alla 41ª Top Singoli ha raggiunto successivamente come posizione massima la 20ª della medesima classifica.[13] 2ff7e9595c
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