Headphones on her ears and microphone stretched, she appeared in her element, within the walls of a recording studio. However, it is indeed the rounded belly of Clara Luciani that has caught the attention of her some 558,000 Instagram followers. The 30-year-old singer announced on the social network on Sunday, May 14, that she was pregnant with her first child.
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"These days, two things are growing in me: my third album and... (a chick emoji)," she wrote. A publication to which his companion, the British musician Alex Kapranos, reacted with humor. "One moment please," commented the band's leader Franz Ferdinand. You didn't tell me that you... was recording a new album! It's so great.
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A "place of one's own"
It's already been three years since the couple made their relationship official through a music video, Summer Wine, unveiled in July 2020. An adaptation of the song by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, which the duo has covered many times together on stage, and which has delighted fans. The latter, surprised to know them as a couple, praised the piece. "I discover you together @jesuisclaraluciani and I love it!!", can be read under one of their publications. Or, "You are both very beautiful, and your beautiful voices give me chills."
On a daily basis, the interpreter of La Grenade and the 51-year-old guitarist want to preserve their privacy. "I never talk about my private life, it's precious to still have a very small place of your own in a world where we share everything," said Clara Luciani in Télé 7 jours, in February.
Mysterious encounter
The two have, for example, never revealed how they met. The magazine Public assures, him, that they would have met during a festival, in 2019. At the time, the musician, renowned for hits like Take Me Out and winner of two Brit Awards in 2005, was already dancing all over England. Clara Luciani, she chains the breakups - one every "three, four months", she says then. The respective Instagram accounts of the singer and Alex Kapranos contain, moreover, only rare shots of their romance, intended to promote their common song.
Just the two partners offer each other a joint appearance in "Taratata", in March 2022. A show in which they sing the title Tainted Love, and express themselves on their artistic duo. Asked by Nagui about how he "feels" the voice of Clara Luciani, Alex Kapranos is full of praise for the talent of his companion. "How do we say in French? Meet. In English, the word is 'unique.'"
Two months later, the interpreter of Love Illumination again praises the merits of his beloved in the columns of Paris Match. "I love singing with her, even though we have very different voices," he says. Also, I'm really lucky to have done duets with a lot of icons: Jane Birkin, Debbie Harry, and Clara..." An icon in the world of rock himself, Alex Kapranos co-founded Franz Ferdinand in the early 2000s, after working in several bands and working as a cook, bartender and driver. He has always remained discreet about his love stories.
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An 'unhealthy relationship'
For her part, Clara Luciani experienced multiple sentimental disappointments before meeting the father of her child. One of them inspired his album Sainte-Victoire, released in 2018. "It was a very unhealthy relationship, which locked me up, I did not see many people except this boy," she tells Society, in February 2020.
Since then, the singer seems to have found a new balance, and share conversations for the least deep with her companion. In February, the latter allows himself a rare intervention about their couple in the documentary It starts like that, dedicated to the career of the artist born in Martigues.
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'Fear of death'
"Clara is a very sensitive person," he says in the program. I think his vocal palette reflects his emotional palette. She has an incredible range, she is capable of pure notes of absolute joy but she also has a real attraction to darkness." Before evoking the "fascination" and the "fear of death, from the shadows to the light", that his companion feels.
Remarks welcomed by Clara Luciani in the columns of Télé 7 jours. "This is one of the most touching interventions of this documentary," she said. It's the only one that evokes my fear of death. I let very few people get close to that side. I have grey areas, I have a lot of trouble with the word "end", the "goodbye". But I have a hyperawareness of the passage of time and I want to do everything to enjoy it." The upcoming birth of her first child should, on the contrary, sign a new stage for this close-knit couple.
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