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With her whirlwind romance with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the global spotlight, former model Carla Bruni is making a renewed bid to carve a name for herself as a singer in the United States.
New York-based label Downtown Records said that Italian-born Bruni, who was raised in France, would release her first English-language album widely in the US next month. Her debut album, released in 2002, was in French.
