Caro Emerald
@ the Love Supreme Jazz Festival
3 July 2016
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Biography
In 2007, Caro Emerald was called upon to cut a
demo for producers Jan van Wieringen, David Schreurs and Canadian
songwriter Vincent Degiorgio. Emerald seized the opportunity, and
recorded “Back It Up.” When she performed the song on
a local Dutch TV station a year later, the song exploded onto the
scene. Viewers were constantly calling, e-mailing and commenting
about that lovely girl with her catchy tune. A low-budget video
on YouTube created a similar effect and suddenly, viewers wanted
to know where they could buy her music.
However, with only one track on the repertoire,
David, Vince, Jan and Emerald started working on a full album before
releasing anything. Inspired by films and music from the 40s and
50s, they wrote and produced “Deleted Scenes From The Cutting
Room Floor,” an exciting, hugely accessible collection of
12 original songs.
The album featured ballroom jazz, cinematic tangos,
groovin’ jazz tracks and infectious mambos that sounded as
if they were recorded in the golden age of Hollywood. However, the
smoking beats, catchy songs and inventive production marked Emerald
out as a present-day phenomenon.
An album with such a distinctive style required its own label approach.
Adding Vince’s A&R background to the mix, Schreurs and
van Wieringen set up Grandmono Records to release their music and
manage the project. It was an overnight success. Debut single “Back
It Up” became an instant radio hit in July 2009, and follow
up “A Night Like This” went on to reach #1 in the Dutch
single charts in January 2010. That same week, Grandmono Records
released the highly anticipated “Deleted Scenes From The Cutting
Room Floor.”
It entered at #1 in the album charts and reached
platinum status within 6 weeks. Overall, the album spent 30 weeks
at #1, breaking a record set by Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”
and selling a stunning 260,000 copies within the year in Holland
alone.
The album was then released in many other countries.
With a similar effect: so far, “Deleted Scenes From The Cutting
Room Floor” is IFPI certified platinum with sales over 1.3
million in Europe (NL 6x Platinum, Poland 2x Platinum, UK Platinum,
Germany Platinum, Austria & Switzerland Gold) and has been released
in over 40 countries. Caro and her production team received numerous
national and international awards, including an MTV EMA award (Best
Dutch/Belgian), EBBA award, Goldene Kamera and Echo Award. Caro
performed at almost every major radio and TV show in Europe.
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