France's multi-gifted first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, has confirmed that she's working on a new album - her fourth - and if reports are to be believed is ready to return to the recording studio early next year.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (source Wikipedia, author - Remi Jouan)The news came last week as she and her husband, the French president Nicolas Sarkozy, hosted the annual Christmas tree ceremony at the official presidential residence, the Elysée palace.
According to the French media, Bruni-Sarkozy has written and composed most, if not all, the songs herself - reports vary.
Although no fixed date has been given either for her return to the studio or the subsequent release of an album, one or other could coincide with a timely announcement from her husband that he's seeking a second mandate.
Rumours have been rife for some time now that Bruni-Sarkozy was preparing to treat her fans to another delightful and delicious dose of her gasping, rasping and breathlessly sensuous ("Get down Shep") voice.
And there were suggestions that advisors to the French president had asked delay her planned musical comeback (Bruni-Sarkozy's last album, "Comme si de rien n'était" was released in July 2008).
That didn't stop her from making a return to the studio earlier this year, albeit as a composer, when she penned "Je chante le blues" on the latest album from one of this country's first "girls of rock 'n roll" and now a long-established star of the French musical scene, Sylvie Vartan.
Bruni-Sarkozy's most recent venture into the studio though was to record a cover version of David Bowie's 1986 hit "Absolute beginners".
She was one of many artists to record Bowie tracks for a double album paying tribute to one of rock and pop's undisputed greats.
Unfortunately for France's first lady her rendition was panned by many (including that arbiter of great taste, Britain's Daily Mail) as "Absolutely awful".
Here's wishing the soon-to-be 43-year-old (whose birthday is on December 23) more favourable (musical) reviews in the New Year.
Carla Bruni - Absolute Beginners
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That's unfair! I find her version of "Absolute Beginners" quite good actually - and you also forget to mention that she's an accomplished actress too, having played a part in Woody Allen's latest film shot in Paris.
Apparently Sylvie Vartan, quite a famous singer from the 60's and 70's in France, who has just released an album - which hasn't sold very well - is blaming the fact that there is a boycott of Carla Bruni-Sarkozi organised by the French radio stations. Carla wrote a song on Sylvie Vartan's album.
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