Nicoletta, a voice and a piano key

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Singer Nicoletta returns with a new album "Amours et Pianos".

Coverings in piano-voice, acoustic and more intimate versions of his greatest hits accompanied by an unpublished signed Carla Bruni.

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By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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The singer Nicoletta is celebrating her 50 years on the stage this year.

She publishes a new album which revisits her greatest hits in piano-voice versions.  

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Barely a month ago

 celebrated her 50th birthday at the Lido.

But, it was in 1967 that this original Haut-Savoyarde - but which has always stretched its ears towards America - climbed without warning to the top of the bill.

"La Musique", taken up years later as the hymn of the first Star Academy program, "Il est mort le soleil", and a few years later "Mamy Blue", will install Nicoletta as a great voice of French-speaking song.

She is "the only white woman to have a black voice", said Ray Charles of this performer who helped popularize gospel in France.

Here she is back with an album of covers in piano-voice, more intimate acoustic versions of her greatest hits, accompanied by an unpublished signed Carla Bruni.

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 ", by Nicoletta is available on the Pias label.

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