Carla Bruni
By Nick Castro
Singer/songwriter Carla Bruni was born in Turin, Italy in 1967, an heiress to an Italian tire manufacturing company. Her family escaped to France when Carla was a small child, apparently under threat of kidnapping by the Red Brigades, a Marxist terrorist group. Her mother a concert pianist and father a part time opera composer, Bruni's childhood was steeped in music. A story came out that in fact, her biological father was a classical guitarist with whom her mother had had an affair. She learned to play piano and guitar at a young age. Having been educated at a prestigious boarding school in Switzerland, Carla returned to France to study art and architecture in Paris. There, she instead became an overnight success... Read More
- City Of Origin:
- Turin, Italy
- Genre:
- World
- Birthdate:
- 12/23/1967
