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Caro Emerald

Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw (born 26 April 1981 in Amsterdam), better known by her stagename Caro Emerald, is a Dutch jazz singer. She debuted on 6 July 2009 with her single "Back It Up". Her debut album Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor set an all time chart record on 20 August 2010 by spending its 30th week at number one on the Dutch album chart, beating the previous record set by Michael Jackson's Thriller by one week.[1] Ultimately, the album would spend a total of 30 weeks in the number one position on the Dutch Albums Top 100 list.[2] The album has become the biggest selling album of 2010 in the Netherlands, selling over 270,000 copies so far. On 3 October 2010, Van der Leeuw was awarded the Dutch Music Prize "Edison" for Best Female Artist.[3] On January 15, 2011, she won the Popprijs 2010 for best Dutch pop act of 2010.

Biography

Caroline van der Leeuw was born 26 April 1981 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She studied as a jazz vocalist at the Amsterdam conservatory of music and earned her degree in 2005.

Van der Leeuw is one of the six singers in Les Elles, a close-harmony vocal group from Amsterdam, and sings in the Philharmonic Funk Foundation, a Funk orchestra of 44 people. She also regularly performs background vocals on the Kinderen voor Kinderen (Children for Children) song festival. Caro teaches singing at the singing school of Babette Labeij, one of the vocal coaches on X-Factor and vocal conductor for Kinderen voor Kinderen.

As Caro Emerald she performs in a combination of English and her own constructed language as depicted in her song Back it Up, "Ba dlu dla dlun dloday".

Music career

Caro Emerald first gained public recognition for her debut single "Back It Up". The single was initially written for a Japanese pop group, by David Schreurs, Robin Veldman and Jan van Wieringen, who are Dutch producers, and Canadian songwriter Vince Degiorgio, who had previously worked with various artists including 'N Sync, Atomic Kitten and Aloha from Hell. Van der Leeuw was approached to record the demo of the song and consecutively added it to her own set. Before 2008, when Caro sang it live on local Amsterdam TV channel AT5, the song was unknown to the general public.

"Back It Up" was officially released by Grandmono Records on 6 July 2009. It was listed in the Dutch Top 40 for 12 weeks and reached the 12th position in the charts. Kraak & Smaak made a remix of the song. "Back It Up" was the most played song by radiostation 3FM in 2009 and Caro received the 'Schaal van Rigter' award for this achievement.[4]

Debut album

Caro's debut album Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor was released on 29 January 2010 and immediately occupied the number 1 position of the Dutch Album Top 100 charts. The album has been at number one in the Dutch Album Top 100 almost continuously since (except for two weeks when it went down to number two to make way for a new number one). On 20 August 2010, the album grabbed another record by spending its 27th (non-consecutive) week at number 1. The previous record was held by Michael Jackson's album Thriller, which spent 26 weeks at number one in 1983 (although that album still holds the record for most consecutive weeks at number 1, with 23 weeks).[1] The album reached double platinum status in the Netherlands on 5 July 2010.[5] In August 2010 it reached triple platinum.[1] and in November 2010 it reached four times platinum, which means over 200,000 copies sold.[6]

The first new song from the album was "A Night like This". The song was listed in the Dutch Top 40 for 26 weeks and peaked on the number 2 position. The song was selected as the official song of a 2009–2010 Martini ad campaign.[7]

In May 2010 Caro announced she was going on a promotion tour to France. In an interview on the Dutch TV show "X de Leeuw" she announced that her debut album will be released in October in France. After having released her singles and album in France she will try to release it in other European countries.

In August 2010, it was announced that the album would be released in the UK by Dramatico Records, home of Katie Melua. Caro was supposed to support Melua on her upcoming UK tour in October, but the tour was cancelled, because Melua is suffering from exhaustion.

In December 2010, a second single, Riviera Life, was released in the UK. "A Night like This" will be released as the third UK single early 2011. Caro Emerald was due to perform her first concert in the UK on February 13 at the Jazz Cafe, however, according the Jazz Cafe's website Caro Emerald will no longer be performing as part of this show due to medical reasons.

Awards

[8][9][10][11]

Discography

Albums

Year Song Peak chart positions[12] Certifications
(sales threshold)
NLD BEL (FLA) POL GER UK CH ITA[13] GRE[14] AUT [14] FRA [15]
2010 Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor

  • Release date: January 29, 2010
  • Label: Grandmono Records
 1 41 3 6 10 80 50 27 4 81
  • NED: 5x Platinum [16]
  • POL: 2x Platinum [17]

Singles

Year Song Peak chart positions[18][19][20][21][22] Album
NLD Top 40 NLD Top 100 ITA BEL (FLA) GER AUT POL [23] SK [24] RO [25] CH UK
2009 "Back It Up" 12 13 11 33 70 - 1 53 - - - Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor
"A Night like This" 2 1 10 - 4 1 2 - 1 39 70
2010 "That Man" 22 29 - - - - - - - - -
"Stuck"[26] 6 28 11 - - - - - - - -
2011 "Riviera Life" 18 99 - - - - - - - - -

References

  1. ^ a b c "Caro Emerald verbreekt record Michael Jackson" (in Dutch). Nu.nl. 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-08-20. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "30 weeks number 1 in The Netherlands". nlpop.blog.nl. 2010-11-19.
  3. ^ "Caro Emerald wins Edison for Best Female Artist (In Dutch)". 2010-10-25.
  4. ^ "Caro Emerald meest gedraaid op 3FM". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). 6 april 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ "Double Platinum". 2010-07-05.
  6. ^ "4x Platinum NED". November 2011.
  7. ^ "Vermout voor vero-vrouwen". Emerce.nl. 2010-04-22. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
  8. ^ "Prijzen" (in Dutch). {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ "Caro Emerald Best Dutch and Belgian Act". de Pers (in Dutch). October 8, 2010.
  10. ^ "Winnaars Buma Harpen Gala 2011 bekend!". Buma Cultuur (in Dutch). October 8, 2010.
  11. ^ "De Jeugd, Go Back to the Zoo en Caro winnen 3fm Awards". nlpop.blog.nl (in Dutch). April 14, 2011.
  12. ^ "Peak positions Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor". 2010-10-25.
  13. ^ "Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor at 50 in Italian Album Chart". 2010-10-26.
  14. ^ a b "Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor at 27 in Greek Album Chart". Hung Medien. 2011-03-18. Cite error: The named reference "Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room at 27 in Greek Album Chart" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  15. ^ "Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room at 81 in Franch album Top 100 Albums". disqueenfrance.com.
  16. ^ "QUINTUPLE PLATINUM!". caroemerald.com. 2010-02-08. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
  17. ^ "2x Platinum Poland". 2011-04-06.
  18. ^ "Peak positions Back It Up". 2010-10-25.
  19. ^ "Peak positions A Night Like This". 2010-10-25.
  20. ^ "Peak positions That Man". 2010-10-25.
  21. ^ "Peak positions of all songs in Dutch Single Top 100". 2010-10-25.
  22. ^ "Peak positions of Stuck". 2011-01-02.
  23. ^ "Peak position A Night Like This in Poland". 2010-11-17.
  24. ^ "Peak position Back It Up in Slovakia". 2010-11-17.
  25. ^ "Peak position A Night Like This in Romanian Radio Airplay Chart". 2010-12-31.
  26. ^ http://www.webcitation.org/5xznVE8Bj

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