His companion Alex Kapranos is the leader of the group Franz Ferdinand!

On Saturday January 25 at 9:10 p.m., TF1 broadcasts the final of the Star Academy. The opportunity to meet the popular Clara Luciani, singer who has the perfect love affair with a rockstar, Alex Kapranos!

This Saturday, the Star Academy vintage 2025 will deliver its verdict and viewers will know who, Marine or Ebony, will leave with the trophy. At their side, the artists will follow one another for an all-fire show, all flame, like Clara Luciani. A particularly popular singer, who has the perfect love affair with a rockstar, Alex Kapranos. None other than leader of the cult group Franz Ferdinand, a regular at festivals. Quite discreet about their history, they nevertheless said more about it recently…

Clara Luciani and Alex Kapranos, a very discreet couple

Between the two music stars, everything would have happened in 2020, behind the scenes of a festival. However, there is no question of either of them revealing the secrets of their meeting. Interviewed on this subject on the airwaves of France InterClara had been cash: “I never talk about my private life, it’s precious to still have a very small place in a world where we share everything.” Before occupying the top of the charts, the Englishman Alex Kapranos launched into the deep end of rock in the early 1990s, rubbing shoulders with the groups The Amphetameanies, The Yummy Fur and The Karelia. It was in 2001 that the singer and guitarist launched the Franz Ferdinand adventure, with the success that we know. With this enormous point in common with his partner, he recorded the single with her Summer Wine in 2020, cover by Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra. A duo that he returned to in the columns of Paris Matchin 2022: “I love singing with her, even if we have very different voices. And then, I’m really lucky to have done duets with a lot of icons: Jane BirkinDebbie Harry and… Clara.”

Clara Luciani: “A lot of people have told me that when the baby comes…”

In September 2023, the couple welcomed a son. An experience like no other, shared by Clara Luciani in the title Everything for mefrom his album My blood. Alex Kapranos also discussed being a father, but this time in the media. Guest on the set of Daily (TMC) for the release of Franz Ferdinand’s latest opus, The Human Fearthe singer spoke of the arrival of his child with a smile: “A lot of people have told me that when the baby comes, we don’t sleep much anymore. And it’s true! But to me, it’s familiar. It’s like the couple’s first year, because in this year , I wasn’t sleeping much for other reasons. It’s similar. It’s like the first year of marriage, but without the hangovers.