Mandela birthday party in New York sees singer make first public performance since becoming France's first ladyShe spoke in her trademark husky drawl and sported the centre-parting of a 70s folk singer, but there was still something unmistakably sober about Carla Bruni-Sarkozy when she stepped in front of a star-studded crowd for her first public performance since becoming France's first lady.Dressed in a plain black trouser suit and standing almost immobile next to British songwriter Dave Stewart, the supermodel-turned-musician was faced with the tricky balancing act of being both a president's wife and pop star as she serenaded the audience at a concert for Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday.Informing New York's Radio City Music Hall that she was "gonna play ... a little French song and a little English song" in honour of the anti-apartheid hero, Bruni-Sarkozy began her performance with a dreamy ballad called Quelqu'un m'a dit. It was, she explained, "not very good for dancing but very good for dreaming".
She spoke in her trademark husky drawl and sported the centre-parting of a 70s folk singer, but there was still something unmistakably sober about Carla Bruni-Sarkozy when she stepped in front of a star-studded crowd for her first public performance since becoming France's first lady.
Dressed in a plain black trouser suit and standing almost immobile next to British songwriter Dave Stewart, the supermodel-turned-musician was faced with the tricky balancing act of being both a president's wife and pop star as she serenaded the audience at a concert for Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday.
Informing New York's Radio City Music Hall that she was "gonna play ... a little French song and a little English song" in honour of the anti-apartheid hero, Bruni-Sarkozy began her performance with a dreamy ballad called Quelqu'un m'a dit. It was, she explained, "not very good for dancing but very good for dreaming".
