Mrs. Sarkozy meets Metallica on TV
Singer Carla Bruni, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has given a rare performance, appearing alongside rock bands Metallica and Kings of Leon.
The acts were all on UK music TV show Later... with Jools Holland, where Mrs. Bruni-Sarkozy told the host that her husband was "very kind" towards her music.
"I play it at home and I disturb him with it in the middle of the night," the 40-year-old former model said. She married Sarkozy in February and released her third album in July.
Metallica provided a contrast to Carla Bruni on Jools Holland's show. Bruni tapped her foot and clapped as heavy metal monsters Metallica performed tracks from their number one album Death Magnetic.
One edition of the show went out live on Tuesday, while another extended version was filmed to be broadcast on BBC Two.
Jools Holland, the former Squeeze musician turned TV host, interviewed Carla Bruni for both shows. Her appearance came just days after she met Pope Benedict XVI, while she has also accompanied Sarkozy meeting dignitaries such as the Queen and the Dalai Lama in recent months.
During the live episode, Holland asked what it was like mixing her roles as a singer-songwriter and president's wife. "I don't really mix them up -- I separate them," she replied. "I play my music and then I go with my husband when he needs me."
Asked whether she wrote songs about her husband -- who was not present for the TV show -- she simply replied: "Well, I write songs about my life." Bruni performed one song, Tu Es Ma Came, on the live show. She translated it variously as: "You're my junk, you're my type, you're my cup of tea." It was about "being addicted to someone in a toxic way and in a lovely way", she said.
During the recorded show, she also performed L'Amoureuse, or The Woman in Love, with a chorus that repeats the line: "Je suis l'amoureuse."
Source: BBC
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