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<p class="MsoHeader" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Carla Bruni</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center; line-height:150%"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Releases New Album:
<i>Little French Songs</i> in the US on April 16<sup>th</sup>, 2013 via Verve</span></u></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center; line-height:150%"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">First single “Chez Keith et Anita” To be Released digitally February 26 – Listen Now</span></u></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">February 25, 2013</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">--Carla Bruni’s
fourth album, <b><i>Little French Songs</i>,</b> will be released on April 16<sup>th</sup> 2013 via Verve. The first single from the album,
<b>“Chez Keith et Anita,”</b> will be released digitally in the US on <b>February 26<sup>th</sup></b>.
<b><i><a href="https://soundcloud.com/vervemusicgroup/carla-bruni-chez-keith-et" target="_blank">PRESS HERE</a></i></b> to stream the song now.
<b><i>Little French Songs</i></b>, written and performed in French, English and Italian, is the follow up to Carla’s 2008 critically acclaimed
<b><i>Comme si de rien n’etait (As if Nothing Had Happened) </i></b>which debuted at #1 in both the Billboard European Top 100 Albums Charts and the French Album Charts. Bruni’s touch is immediately apparent in these new compositions that once again focus on
raw emotions and love. </span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Little French Songs</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black"> was recorded by
<b>Bénédicte Schmitt at Labomatic Studios</b> in Paris and it features eight original compositions by Carla Bruni. Album track,
<b>“Priere”</b> was co-written by Carla and longtime friend and collaborator <b>Julien Clerc</b>.
<b>“Dolce Francia”</b> is an Italian adaptation of Charles Trenet’s “Douce France” and “<b>Valse Posthume</b>” is written by Chopin, with lyrics written by Carla Bruni. </span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Carla Bruni has been writing and performing music since 1997.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">In the late 1990s, Bruni changed direction when she decided to launch a music career, first as a songwriter for Julien Clerc, for whom she wrote several songs
for his album Si j’étais elle (If I Were Her), then as a singer-songwriter-for her first album,
<b><i>Quelqu’un m’a dit</i></b> (Someone Told Me), released in <b>2002</b>. Composed with the help of Louis Bertignac, who also produced the album,
<b><i>Quelqu’un m’a dit</i></b> was an instant hit. Acclaimed by critics, the album sold two million copies. In
<b>2003</b>, Bruni won the Prix Raoul Breton, awarded by SACEM (French association of songwriters and composers) to recognize and encourage an up-and-coming songwriter or composer. She was awarded the Victoire de la Musique for Best Female Artist the same year.
In <b> January 2007</b>, Bruni released her second album, <i>No Promises</i>, which set English poems to music. Among the poets she selected were Yeats, Auden, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Walter de la Mare and Dorothy Parker. This second work, which
sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide, shot to the top of the charts in both France and Europe. Her third album was released<b> 2008</b> and was entitled
<i>Comme si de rien n’était</i> (As If Nothing Happened), the title of a photographic work by her brother Virginio Bruni Tedeschi that appears in the album’s booklet.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">In April 2009, she launched the
</span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:blue">Fondation Carla Bruni-Sarkozy</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">, to promote access to culture and knowledge for
all.</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black"><a href="http://www.carlabrunisarkozy.org/fr/fondation-carla-bruni-sarkozy/" target="_blank">http://www.carlabrunisarkozy.org/fr/fondation-carla-bruni-sarkozy/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Little French Songs</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black"> will be
available for pre-order on Amazon.com Tuesday, February 26<sup>th</sup>. </span>
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