Caro Emerald

Caro Emerald ( born April 26, 1981 in Amsterdam, actually Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw ) is a Dutch pop and jazz singer.

Career

Emerald studied at the Conservatory of Amsterdam jazz singing and made their 2005 financial statements. In 2007, she jumped as a substitute for demo recordings of the song Back It Up one of the producers David Schreurs and Jan van Ingen Four and the Canadian Songwriters Vince Degiorgio. Later Emerald used the song even with their own performances.

An appearance at a regional station in 2008 brought her then better known, and then she put a self- made ​​video on YouTube one, which further increased its popularity. Finally Schreurs and van Ingen four- founded his own record label and recorded together with Caro Emerald with the collaboration of Degiorgio on an album that musically oriented with tango and mambo rhythms from the 1940s and 1950s at the Swing Jazz.

In summer 2009, first released their debut single Back It Up, which earned her a first chart hit in their homeland. At the end came the second single A Night Like This. Until the release of their debut album, the song climbed into the Top 10 and eventually reached number 2 in the Dutch Top 40

The album, Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor rose in the Netherlands at # 1 on the album charts. With interruptions, it remained 30 weeks on the chart tip, longer than any album before in the Netherlands. It has been awarded with triple platinum for more than 150,000 copies sold. In September 2009, published debut single and album in Belgium, in October 2010 in Germany, where they each could place on the charts as well.

At the MTV Europe Music Awards 2010, she won the audience choice for best artist of the year in the Netherlands and Belgium.

With their single A Night Like This could end up in Austria a number one hit in April 2011. In Germany, the song peaked at number four in the charts. In 2012 she was awarded the Golden Camera International in the category Best Music.

On September 19, 2013, it announced on its website that the concerts that were scheduled in March in the UK, be moved because she was pregnant and expecting her first child in 2014.

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Singles

Awards

  • 2012 Golden Camera Best Music International
  • 2012 Echo Newcomer of the Year (International)
  • 2011 European Border Breakers Award ( EBBA )
Vocal jazz Conservatorium van Amsterdam Tango music A Night like This (song) 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards Media-Control-Charts List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 2010 List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 2013 Integrated Authority File
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