Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi (born 23 December 1967) is an Italian songwriter, singer and supermodel, and the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Carla Bruni Tedeschi was born in December 23, 1968, in Turin, Italy. At the age of 5, her family left for Paris. When she was 19, she decided to stop studying art and architecture, to become a full-time model. She was a very successful fashion model until 1998. Since then she has devoted herself to chanson . Her debut album, Quelqu’un m’a dit, on which she sings in French (despite her Italian origin), was released in 2002. To date it has sold over a million copies across Europe. Her second a