Three years after the box office Coeurthe 32-year-old singer unveils a new opus partly inspired by her first pregnancy.
She has established herself as one of the main figures of the new French music scene. At 32, Clara Luciani unveils this Friday, November 15, her third album called My Sangthree years after the box office Coeur. In between, the songwriter temporarily left the spotlight to give birth to her first child. An upheaval which inspired this new record:
“What has always inspired me, in my songs, is my life,” she confides to BFMTV. “I started writing this record when I found out I was pregnant, and I think it stirred up a lot of things in me.”
As evidenced by the single Everything for mefirst extract from this third opus, declaration of love to this son she carried during the conception of My blood: “I loved writing the lyrics for this album, I have never taken so much pleasure in writing (…) I think I really wanted to tell my story to this human being who was arriving, I had so much to say to him, it opened up so many topics.” She even evokes “a kind of quest for identity”: “I wanted to go back in history to understand a little better where I came from and who I was.”
This is perhaps the reason for this return to the arrangements of his beginnings, more pop-rock than disco ball, far from the album with disco accents that was Coeur and its tube The rest: “I think I went to the limit of what I could do in terms of glitter,” she jokes. “I needed a return to basics. But I don't regret it at all, I loved making this disco and dance record.”
Humble success
It is difficult, in fact, to regret such a success: Coeur sold 400,000 copies, earned him a victory for best album in 2022, gave rise to a “marvelous tour”… and finished establishing his status as a must-have in French song.
So much so that last April, when she announced her 2025 tour, fans responded without even having heard a single excerpt from her new album. After a packed first date at the Accor Arena on March 6, a second was added the next day in this 20,000-seat Parisian venue. A public craze that the young woman lives with “a lot of caution”:
“I am aware of how lucky I was that both albums did very well, but I am also aware that everything can disappear very quickly.”
“People are constantly looking for freshness, something new. I have to keep in the back of my mind that it remains a dream and that it's crazy to have already made it come true. The only way to be happy, for me, it's accepting that at some point it may end and measuring my luck.”
A record, a tour… and a film
With My SangClara Luciani feels like she has “threw herself the challenge of writing an autobiography”. And over the course of 13 titles, she recounts her beginnings in music, her professional, romantic and friendly disappointments: “I realized that what defined me best were my relationships.” And she opened herself up to new ways of conceptualizing her music, bringing more musicians into her studio than ever before:
“Today, people can make music in their room, we go economical and we almost only do things on the computer. It works very well too, but I don't know why we took the path opposite. I found it super cool that there were so many human beings on this record, which is a bonding record, seeing 40 violinists arriving at the studio, it made sense to me.
And the challenges will continue to come one after the other: in addition to this tour which she will launch on December 17 at the Olympia, we will find her for the first time at the cinema on December 25 in Pretty Prettya musical comedy by Patrick Asté – known as Diastème – and set to music by Alex Beaupain. She will respond to José Garcia and William Lebghil. But don't call her a star: “I know I'll never be a star, and that suits me just fine. For me, a star is Catherine Deneuve.”
Philippe Dufreigne, with Benjamin Pierret
