4 March 2013
Kirsty Bertarelli, a former Miss UK, admitted that she was a bag of nerves before performing a showcase of her pop songs in the chapel at the House of St Barnabas in Soho. “After I got past the first number and focused on the lyrics, I thought it went very well,” says Bertarelli, who wrote the No 1 hit Black Coffee for All Saints in 2000.
Kirsty, 41, and her husband Ernesto Bertarelli, a Swiss biotech magnate, are worth an estimated £7.4 billion. But she is serious about her music career.
“My songs are about real-life experiences and observations. Black Coffee was about falling in love with Ernesto. He is very supportive — but I don’t show him my lyrics.”
