Titled: My bloodthe musician’s new album was released on November 15. On this occasion, the 32-year-old singer told about the artists, works and events that make her happy.
From the artists who inspired her to do what she does to the women in her life, through her artistic inclinations and her first sentimental disappointment, Clara Luciani sat down with Premier Amour for an interview. Madame Figaro. An exchange in which the young mother, who has just released her third album, My bloodpresented himself with gentleness, humility and self-confidence.
Madame Figaro. – Who are the singers, authors, composers that got you into this business?
Clara Luciani. – Naturally there was Françoise Hardy, and Nico, who sang with the Velvet Underground amongst others. He was an important inspiration to me because he had a very deep voice that allowed me to embrace my voice. There were also the Beatles, and Paul McCartney in particular. They were really the three most important people for me in my youth.
What are your favorite love songs?
CL.- They are always desperate love songs. Oddly enough, I find it much easier to be moved by a song about a broken heart than a love song where everything is okay. The top of the top is for me don’t leave me (By Jacques Brel, Editor’s note) Nothing so beautiful has ever been written. I love the love song so much drama queen. I love it too With time (by Leo Ferre, Editor’s note), which itself is also a love song.
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Who is your favorite musical duo?
CL.- I like all Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood songs. I did a cover with Alex Kapranos Summer wine. I find it an iconic and charming duo. their voices “match” incredibly well.
What have been your strongest artistic inclinations?
CL.- I have one big problem: I never got out of my Beatles Mania phase. I still remember the day my dad gave me a Beatles album for my Walkman. It turned my life upside down. I was completely obsessed with them. I was ten years old at the time, and it’s a passion that has never left me. I had another really big crush when I was 8 years old. My teacher took us to see it The Young Ladies of Rochefort in the cinema and from that moment I became a new person. I never wanted to stop singing. I wanted my life to be a musical. I used to come home and talk to my mother while singing. I think it pissed him off quickly, but it was really one of the biggest artistic shocks of my life. Even today I listen to the Beatles and Michel Legrand The Young Ladies of Rochefortwith the same love as when I was a little girl.
“I understand that at the age of 32 The Young Ladies of Rochefort it was a movie, but the reality is a little different”
What is the fictional or real romance that upset you the most?
CL.- I’m going to talk about it again The Young Ladies of Rochefortbut this musical really marked my life. He also shaped my perspective on love. The Garnier sisters (played by Françoise Dorleac and Catherine Deneuve, Editor’s note) are looking for the one love of their life without whom they are incomplete. I was both very inspired by Michel Legrand’s aesthetic and music, but also intoxicated, on a sentimental level, by the idea of love conveyed by this work. Right now I’m trying to tear it down because at 32 I realize it was a movie and the reality is a little different.
What memory do you have of your first heartbreak?
CL.- My first real heartbreak was what inspired all my first solo songs. I was lucky that this sentimental disappointment brought this thing out in me. Suddenly I had an unstoppable theme for my first French songs. In fact, I remember sending the tape to my ex and quoting him in the thank you notes for breaking my heart. I felt like without that breakup I would never have had the raw material to write these songs.
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Who are the artists you idolized as a teenager and whose posters you had?
CL.- I was really into my British rock phase at the time, so I had the Beatles and the Buzzcocks. I think I had photos of Chrissie Hynde from the contenders as well as Patti Smith. And then also quite a few prints of Egon Schiele’s work because I was crazy about him. This is what my teenage bedroom looked like.
What is the title track of your latest album called? Everything for me . Who are the people who are “everything to you”?
CL.- Here are obviously my parents, my sister and my child. they are really my foundation. But obviously there are also my friends, especially a few women who are the women in my life. And finally my team members with whom I work. We are really very close. And I understand in answering you that there are also many women. Overall, I have very strong and very inspiring female figures in my life.
What do these female characters bring you every day?
CL.- They help me on every level. There are women in particular who have inspired me because I’ve seen them manage their careers and motherhood brilliantly, and I wanted to emulate them. There are women who inspire me because they started their business at a very young age. They are real girl bosses. There are others who inspire me because they are able to embrace their hypersensitivity, others because I find them so free in their femininity and they force me to relate to them. All the women around me inspire me for different reasons.
Source: Le Figaro
