Look up Carl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

(For persons with this and similar names, see also Carl, Karl, and Charles).

Carl is a popular variant of the name Charles (see there).

List of people named Carl[link]

• Carl Cebrecus
• Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, the current Swedish monarch
• Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland, Prince of Sweden
• Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland

(other Swedish and Norwegian royalty so named are listed on English Wikipedia as Charles)

• Carl Ballantine (1917-2009), American actor
• Carl Barks
• Carl Crawford
• Carl Barat
• Carl Bildt
• Carl L. Boeckmann
• Carl Brashear, U.S. Navy Master Diver
• Carl Edwards
• Carl Fogarty
• Carl Froch
• Carl-Peter Forster
• Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Carl Grubert
• Carl August Hagberg, Swedish linguist
• Carl Jenkinson, Football (soccer) player
• Carl Jung
• Carl Karcher
• Carl Kasell, American radio personality
• Carl Lewis
• Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné)
• Carl Orff
• Carl Pursell, American politician
• Carl Reiner, American actor, director, and comedian
• Carl Rogers, American psychologist and psychotherapist
• Carl Sagan
• Carl Sandburg
• Carl Schueler, American race walker
• Carl Maria von Weber
• Carl Weathers
• Carl Wieland
• Carl Wilson
• Carl Yastrzemski
• Carl Zeiss

Fictional characters[link]

• Carl Brutananadilewski, a character from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, now titled Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1.
• Carl Carlson, a character from The Simpsons
• Carl Fredricksen, a character from Disney-Pixar's Up (2009 film)
• Carl "CJ" Johnson, a character in the Grand Theft Auto video game series
• Carl Hamilton (fictional character) (known as Carl G. G. Hamilton), a Swedish secret agent created by Jan Guillou
• Carl Winslow, a character from the TV series Family Matters

Derived surnames[link]

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• Carlsen
• Carlson
• Carlsson
• Carlton
• Karlsen
• Karlson
• Karlsson

Derived placenames[link]

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Many of these are in reference to Charlemagne. Carolina is named for Charles II of England.

• Carei/ Nagykároly / Grosskarol / Großkarl (Romania)
• Carlsbad, California (United States)
• Carlsbad, New Mexico (United States)
• Carlsbad, Texas (United States)
• Carlton (disambiguation) (England)
• Carolina, Puerto Rico
• Charlotte (United States)
• Charlton (disambiguation) (England)
• Charleville (disambiguation)
• Charleval (France)
• Karlovac (Croatia)
• Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
• Karlsbad (Baden) (Germany)
• Karlshamn (Sweden)
• Karlskoga (Sweden)
• Karlskrona (Sweden)
• Karlsruhe (Germany)
• Karlstad (Sweden)
• North Carolina (United States)
• South Carolina (United States)
• São Carlos (Brazil)

References[link]

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Carla Morrison

Carla Morrison (b. Tecate, Baja California, July 19, 1986) is a Mexican pop-rock singer, songwriter and guitarist.

Background and career[link]

Carla Patricia Morrison Flores was born in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico, a daughter of Mexican parents, Porfiria Flores and Hilario Morrison. At age 13, her father Hilario Viera decided to seek a better living and moved to San Diego, California. An American, William Morrison, adopted him, resulting in Carla's father receiving the surname Morrison. Since childhood she was attracted to the arts, such as drawing, poetry readings, writing stories, poems, crafts, and dance with some styles such as African and jazz improvisation. But among all the arts, music symbolized her greatest passion. As a child she sang in secret, and was very shy and didn't sing publicly until high school, when she started doing shows with friends. In her first year of high school, Carla moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where she completed her studies and entered the Music College at the University of Arizona. After returning to Tecate, she played with local rock bands including Revolver and Zombras. Carla learned to play different rhythms, such as Batucada, which includes driving percussion instruments such as maracas, tambourines and drums.

Although the band signed with Sony BMG and booked a tour of Mexico, Carla instead decided to return to Phoenix and strengthen her abilities as an artist by resuming her musical studies at Mesa Community College, learning piano, guitar, vocal performance, song and story music of the world.

In 2007 she gave her first solo performance in her hometown. With musicians Nick Kizer and Nichole Petta she formed the alt-rock band Babaluca.In 2008 they recorded the self-titled debut EP and performed in Arizona and California, and received a great deal of local press, including being named "Best Indie Band of Arizona for 2008."

Carla had the fortune to be well known on the internet. Many internet music pages had much to say. It was published that she was "The artist who comes to the 2010" and "The new artist who is giving to talk and northern Mexico" by Cadiz Spain (Mister pollo.com) Madrid (Music Spinner Spain), Argentina (amodescubrircanciones.com), Peru (Sad Bastard Music), Los Angeles California (Alborde.com), Mexico City I haceruido.com) Phoenix Arizona (Clubfonograma.com), Japan, among others. She was also mentioned in the personal web page of a supportive artists such as Julieta Venegas, Ximena Sariñana and Natalia Lafourcade. These artists mentioned not being able to stop listening to her. Her record was also added to a mix of music from a DJ famous in New York called "Nacotheque" and collaborated on remixes of music with the band The Amparito of Guadalajara, Mexico .. .... had the opportunity to play at several places here in Tecate and ran voice (which was headlined by Javier Batiz in Tijuana (Forum and Multicluti and Cecut and Daniel Gutierrez Mofo opening for a singer of the renowned Mexican banda The gusana blind) and CECUT being entitled "The most anticipated artist of Baja California, in San Luis Rio Colorado (House of Culture) in Guadalajara Mexico (Rusty Trombone, Candela Cafe, Cafe Andre Breton) and published by the Journal of the Week "LEISURE" an article entitled "Tecate with love ..." and in Mexicali (Club Ultra) which fortunately was opening for Natalia Lafourcade and shared the stage with other talented artists such as Four for Tango (the rumors), Titan (in Tijuana) and Mexicali (Literary Cafe and Ultra Barabri Natalia Lafourcade's show) ... there was when she began to know more and months later Natalia volunteered to help Carla to record and produce something at home, simply because she was her fan,and of course she agreed. Carla was in Mexico city for 2 ½ weeks for about 4 trips and had the opportunity to play in the fru fru Theatre, with opening for the show's launch of disk huhuhu Natalia Lafourcade with an audience of 800 people,also play an acoustic show with Daniel Gutierrez ah been his music played alternative music a lot more famous and known in Mexico City called Reactor 105.7 FM, and played on the terrace the international hostel where on this tour sold all his records he had in hand, as also in many radio stations throughout the republic of Mexico.

Now Carla in 2011 played in the tent intolerant in the largest Latin American festival Vive Latino 2011 breaking the record of the tent full of history but the tent intolerant of this year. As well as achieving and playing Carla in the Lunario and sold out, which made Carla ah just to be on the Internet pages of YouTube, MySpace, Facebook and such, which recognizes carla helped spread over .

She is now preparing her new LP.

Carla also won the award for best folk album of 2010 in the award show IMAS 2011 (indie-o music awards). Natalia Lafourcade also won for best new producer of the album "while you were sleeping" "mientras tu dormias" and carla was also nominated for best solo album of the year but the prize was won by Rey Pila.

Carla Morrison remains independent and has her own label with Cosmic Records from Los Angeles, California.

Carla Morrison's music videos have been recorded by Artileria de Tijuana as well as her documentary "Colors Pains." Dolores a Colores.

Executive Producer of "While you were sleeping" was Leon Polar The art cover of the cd was done by Vero Gatti from Buenos Aires Argentina.

Carla Morrison gave away her song "Hoy yo quiero" tu a NACO es Chido, record label from Japan to help raise money for the past Tsunami and Earthquake Japan suffered in March 2011 and with the same label Carla is also putting an LP record out in Japan on Fall 2011, putting together her 2 ep's and making a full length album with this 2.

Morrison's music has been featured on the NPR program Alt.Latino and KCRW by posting her on their top 10 "Mientras Tú Dormías" best album of 2010 ^[1]

In 2011, Carla Morrison partnered with Iberoamerican Pop label KUDETA to release a 7" vinyl featuring the singles Una Salida and Tu Luz.

Discography[link]

Studio Albums[link]

• Aprendiendo a Aprender EP (2009)
• Aprendiendo a aprender [Deluxe Edition] 2010
• Mientras Tú Dormías... (2010) produced by Mexican solo artist Natalia Lafourcade
• Jugando en Serio EP (2011) produced by Alejandro Jiménez
• Dejenme Llorar (2012) produced by Juan Manuel Torreblanca and Andres Landon

Singles[link]

• "Esta Soledad" (2009)
• "Lagrimas" (2009)
• "Compartir" (2010)
• "Yo sigo aqui" (2010)
• "Una Salida" (2011)
• "Déjenme Llorar" (2012)
• "Duele" (2012)
• "Tu Orgullo" (2012)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Carla Morrison

• Biography at Musica.com

www.carlamorrisonmusica.com

• http://carlamorrisonmx.blogspot.com/

www.twitter.com/carlamorrisonmx

• http://www.facebook.com/CARLAMORRISONOFICIALMX

www.myspace.com/carlamorrisonmusica

• http://www.kudetalosangeles.com

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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
First Lady of France
In office 2 February 2008 – 15 May 2012
President	Nicolas Sarkozy
Preceded by	Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz
Succeeded by	Valérie Trierweiler
Personal details
Born	(1967-12-23) 23 December 1967 (age 44) Turin, Italy
Spouse(s)	Nicolas Sarkozy (2008–present)
Children	Aurélien (by Enthoven) Giulia (by Sarkozy)

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy^[1] (born Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi, Italian pronunciation: [ˈkarla dʒilˈbɛrta ˈbruːni teˈdeski]; 23 December 1967) is an Italian-French songwriter, singer, actress, and former model. She has been married to Nicolas Sarkozy, the former President of the French Republic, since February 2008.

Early life[link]

Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi was born in Turin, Italy, and is heiress to the fortune created by the Italian tyre manufacturing company CEAT, founded in the 1920s by her grandfather Virginio Bruni Tedeschi. The company was sold in the 1970s to Pirelli (the brand lives on via its former subsidiary in India, founded in 1958).^[2] The family moved to France in 1975,^[3] reportedly to escape the threat of kidnapping by the Red Brigades, a Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary group active in Italy in the 1970s. Bruni grew up in France from age seven and attended boarding school in Switzerland. She went to Paris to study art and architecture, but left school at 19 to become a model.^[4]

She is legally the daughter of Italian concert pianist Marisa Borini and industrialist and classical composer Alberto Bruni Tedeschi. However, in 2008 Bruni told Vanity Fair that her biological father is Italian-born, Brazilian grocery magnate Maurizio Remmert. At that time, Remmert was a 19-year old classical guitarist, and his affair with Borini lasted six years.^[3] Her sister is actress and movie director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. She had a brother, Virginio Bruni Tedeschi (1959–4 July 2006), who died from complications of HIV/AIDS.^[5]

From her biological father, she has a half-sister, Consuelo Remmert.^[6]

Career[link]

1987–1996: early career and modeling[link]

Bruni signed with City Models at age 19.^[4] Paul Marciano, president and creative director of Guess? Inc., came across her picture among composite cards of aspiring models and chose her to model with Estelle Lefébure in campaigns for Guess? jeans.^[4] Bruni subsequently worked for designers and fashion houses such as Christian Dior, Givenchy, Paco Rabanne, Sonia Rykiel, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Yves Saint-Laurent, Shiatzy Chen, Chanel and Versace.^[4] By the 1990s, Bruni was among the 20 highest-paid fashion models, earning $7.5 million a year. While modeling, Bruni dated Eric Clapton, then Mick Jagger.^[7] On 11 April 2008, a 1993 nude photograph of Bruni sold at auction for US$91,000 (€65,093) – more than 60 times the expected price.^[8] She was a modeling subject of a 1999 trompe-l'œil wool-knit dress body painting by Joanne Gair that is included in Gair's second book, Body Painting: Masterpieces by Joanne Gair.^[9]

1997–2005: music career and debut album[link]

Carla Bruni with actor Vincent Pérez at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.

In 1997, Bruni quit the world of fashion to devote herself to music.^[3] She sent her lyrics to Julien Clerc in 1999, based on which he composed six tracks on his 2000 album Si j'étais elle.^[10]

In 2002, her debut album Quelqu'un m'a dit, produced by Louis Bertignac, was released in Europe with success in Francophone countries.^[10] Three songs from the album appear in Hans Canosa's 2005 American film Conversations with Other Women,^[11] the song Le Plus Beau du quartier was used in H&M's Christmas 2006 commercial, and the title track was featured in the 2003 movie Le Divorce^[12] and in the 2009 movie (500) Days of Summer.^[13] In January 2010, her song "L'amoureuse" was featured in an episode of NBC's Chuck, "Chuck vs. First Class".^[14]

In 2005, she wrote the lyrics for ten out of twelve songs for Louis Bertignac's new album Longtemps, and performed two duets with him on the album, Les Frôleuses and Sans toi.^[15] In 2006, Bruni recorded "Those Little Things", an English-language translation of the Serge Gainsbourg song "Ces petits riens" for the tribute album Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited. She took part in the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in a parade paying tribute to the Italian flag.

[edit] 2006–2008: No Promises and Comme si de rien n'était

Her second album, No Promises containing poems by William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, W. H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, Walter de la Mare, and Christina Rossetti, set to music, was released in January 2007.

She continued recording after her marriage. She released her third album Comme si de rien n'était on 11 July 2008. The songs are self-penned except for one rendition of "You Belong to Me" and another song featuring Michel Houellebecq's poem La Possibilité d'une île set to music.^[16] Royalties from the album will be donated to unidentified charitable and humanitarian cause.^[17]

2009–present: new studio album and other projects[link]

Bruni sang for Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday on 18 July 2009 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.^[18]

In September 2009, she recorded a duet with Harry Connick, Jr. for the French edition of his album Your Songs. They sang the Beatles song "And I Love Her".^[19] The album was released in France on 26 October 2009.^[20]

Following months of speculation, in a television interview broadcast on 23 November 2009, Bruni revealed that she had accepted a role in a forthcoming Woody Allen film. She admitted her reasoning for embarking on the Paris production; "I'm not an actress at all. Perhaps I'll be completely hopeless but I can't miss an opportunity like this one. When I'm a grandmother I'd like to be able to say I made a film with Woody Allen."^[21][22] The film, Midnight in Paris, was released in 2011; Bruni appeared as a guide at the Musée Rodin, who discusses sculptor Auguste Rodin with the leading characters.

In September 2010, she contributed a cover of David Bowie's "Absolute Beginners" to the War Child charity record We Were So Turned On : a tribute to David Bowie (Manimal Vinyl). They also released the track as a split 7" vinyl split with UK legends, Duran Duran.^[23]

Italian singer/songwriter Simone Cristicchi’s entry in the 2010 San Remo Italian Song Festival was the song “Meno Male”, with the chorus lyrics of “Meno male che c’è Carla Bruni” (“Thank goodness for Carla Bruni”). The song appears to mock Bruni and her husband, but Cristicchi stated in an interview for Italian television weekly TV Sorrisi e Canzoni that the song is about “our way of being Italian, [we are] always ready to follow any type of gossip and are uninterested in real problems”.^[24] Bruni was to be a guest singer at the 2010 San Remo festival but withdrew from participating, purportedly because she was offended by Cristicchi’s song.^[25]

Personal life[link]

Marriage to Nicolas Sarkozy[link]

Carla Bruni with Michelle Obama

Bruni met the recently divorced French president Nicolas Sarkozy in November 2007 at a dinner party.^[26] After a brief romance they married on 2 February 2008 at the Élysée Palace in Paris. The marriage is Bruni's first and Sarkozy's third. Bruni obtained French nationality not long afterwards.^[1] She has since made contradictory statements as to whether she still holds Italian nationality as well.^[27]

Following her marriage to Sarkozy, in February 2008, Bruni continued accompanying him on state visits, including to the United Kingdom in March 2008, which created a sensation in the international press and the public in the UK and France.^[28] She has an office and staff at her disposal in the East wing of the Élysée Palace.^[29]

There was controversy on the eve of the state visit to the UK, with the publication by Christie's auction house of a nude photograph of Bruni taken during her career as a model.^[30] The photograph sold for $91,000.^[31] There was also great interest in Bruni's wardrobe, which was Christian Dior, seen as a diplomatic choice, being a French design house designed by John Galliano, a British designer.^[32] Another controversy was the use of a popular photo of the French President and Bruni in the print advertising of Ryanair. The couple was awarded damages by a French court^[33] which they donated to Les Restos du Cœur, an organisation which provides meals to the homeless.

In December 2008, Bruni sued the makers of a bag featuring a nude shot of the French first lady taken during her supermodelling youth. Clothes designer Pardon has produced 10,000 of the shopping bags emblazoned with the nude photo taken in 1993, showing Bruni staring at the camera with her crossed hands covering her crotch.^[34]

On 19 October 2011, Carla Bruni gave birth to a baby girl, Giulia, in the Clinique de la Muette, in Paris.

Carla Bruni at the 2009 NATO summit, 4 April 2009.

Philanthropy and charity work[link]

Involved for years in humanitarian and charity work, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy became world ambassador for the protection of mothers and children against HIV in 2008.^[35] In April 2009, she launched the Fondation Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, to promote access to culture and knowledge for all.^[36][37]

In a letter of support to the association People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), she took a position against fur in fashion.^[38]

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is involved in various charitable activities. She gave her royalties for her album Comme si de rien n’était to the Fondation de France,^[39][40] and supports different events or causes, such as the Born HIV Free campaign,^[41] animal rights,^[42][43] the Nelson Mandela foundation, the French association Aides for AIDS research, the French association La Chaîne de l'Espoir or the association Warchild UK. She also participated in a concert with Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin for the 91st birthday of Nelson Mandela,^[44][45] and recorded a song for the album We Were So Turned On: A Tribute to David Bowie.^[46] She is involved in the promotion of young artists, and did a duet with French singer Marc Lavoine for the Prix Constantin, an annual French music prize awarded to newer artists.^[47][48] Furthermore, she supported French guitarist Jean-Pierre Danel's charity album,^[49][50] and sold a self-portrait to the benefit of third-world children.^[51]

Bruni met the Dalai Lama in August 2008 at Lerab Ling, a Buddhist temple on a hill in Languedoc, France.^[52] Bruni received Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to France in September 2008.^[53] Bruni visited New York City in September 2008 with her husband, where she attended a meeting on poverty and female mortality with Queen Rania and Wendi Murdoch, met for lunch with First Lady Laura Bush at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the Symposium on Advancing Global Literacy and attended the General Assembly in the UN with her husband.^[54] She also attended state dinners with the Emir of Qatar and wife and with Iraq's president in Paris in 2009. She and Sheikha Mozah (wife of Emir of Qatar) will be working together on the topic of education promotion.^[55] Bruni visited Doha on invitation of Sheikha Mozah in November 2009.^[55] She also took cause for a woman in Iran, Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, fighting a death penalty by stoning.^[56][57]

In April 2009, Carla was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III on the occasion of the couple's Spanish State Visit.^[58]

In October 2009 she launched CarlaBruniSarkozy.org, a website largely dealing with her philanthropic work.

In January 2010, Carla visited Benin, her second visit as ambassador for The Global Fund.^[59] She also received Haitian orphans who survived the Haiti 2010 earthquake and were adopted by French families.^[60]

She has been critical of Pope Benedict XVI on the controversial topic of religion and AIDS.^[61] According to Le Canard Enchainé, Bruni was asked by Vatican officials not to join her husband in an official visit for fear that the Italian newspapers would reprint racy pictures dating from her modelling career.^[62]

In late August 2010, Iran's state-run daily paper Kayhan called Bruni-Sarkozy a 'prostitute' after she had condemned the stoning sentence against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani for adultery in an open letter, along with several French celebrities.^[63] The paper later also called for Bruni to be put to death for supporting Sakineh Ashtiani, and for what the paper described as Bruni's moral corruption and having had extra-marital affairs herself. Even though Kayhan is a state-sponsored paper and it continued its tirade against Bruni along with other state-run Iranian media, Iranian officials tried to distance themselves from that violent stance and openly condemned it, while a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry criticized the comments as being 'unacceptable'.^[64] President Ahmedinejad also condemned the remark made by the paper.^[65]

Other relationships[link]

It has been claimed that Bruni has been involved with Louis Bertignac, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Léos Carax, Charles Berling, Arno Klarsfeld, Vincent Pérez^[66] and former French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius.^[67][68]

The Enthovens[link]

While living with Jean-Paul Enthoven, Bruni fell in love and started an affair with his son, philosophy professor Raphaël Enthoven (the song "Raphäel" from Bruni's album Quelqu'un m'a dit is named after him), who was at the time married to novelist Justine Lévy, daughter of philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy.^[69] Bruni later denied ever having an affair with Raphaël's father in an interview published in Vanity Fair, "I never slept with him, not even a minute."^[3]

The affair and the end of her marriage inspired Justine's 2004 book Rien de Grave (published in English in 2005 as Nothing Serious).^[70]

Bruni and Raphaël had a son, Aurélien, in 2001. Bruni told Vanity Fair that the couple broke up in May 2007 because Raphaël thought their relationship did not have a commitment.^[3]

Discography[link]

Filmography[link]

Honours[link]

Foreign Honours[link]

•  Spain: Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III ^[74]

Further reading[link]

• Gair, Joanne (2006). Body Painting: Masterpieces by Joanne Gair. Universe Publishing. plates section. ISBN 0-7893-1509-2. 

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Carla Bruni

• Official web site (personal site)
• Carla Bruni official website (as singer)
• Carla Bruni at the Internet Movie Database
• Carla Bruni at the Fashion Model Directory
• Carla Bruni: from catwalk to Elysee – Expatica, 11 February 2008