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Caroline Lavelle
Born 1969
Genre(s) Pop Rock, Alternative, Folk
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter
Instrument(s) Cello, Singing
Website Official site

Caroline Lavelle is a British singer-songwriter and cellist who has created three solo albums and contributed vocals, music, and production help to many other artists and bands. A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Pop rock is a hybrid of Pop music and Rock music that uses catchy pop style with light lyrics over top of guitar-based songs Folk music can have a number of different meanings including Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making Music. Singer-songwriter is a term that refers to Performers who write, compose and sing their own material including Lyrics The violoncello (abbreviated to cello, or 'cello, plural cellos or celli —the c is tʃ

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Career

Lavelle studied at the Royal College of Music in London. The Royal College of Music is a well known conservatoire located in the South Kensington district of London, England, and one London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Throughout the early to mid-eighties she busked in the city, often outside Kensington Tube Station and Covent Garden, playing baroque music with Anne Stephenson and Virginia Astley (or Virginia Hewes; sources are confused) in a group called Humouresque. Kensington is a district of West London, England within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, located west of Charing Cross. South Kensington is a London Underground station in Kensington, west London. Covent Garden (Pronunciation kɒvʌnt is a district in London, England, located on the easternmost parts of the City of Westminster and the southwest Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 and 1750. Virginia Astley is an English singer-songwriter active during the 1980s and 1990s

She was spotted by Frankie Gavin, a member of Ireland's De Dannan band, who asked her to join. Frankie Gavin (born 1956 is an Irish Fiddle and Flute player from Corrandulla, County Galway. De Dannan (originally Dé Danann) was an Irish Folk music group She was part of the band up to the early nineties, alongside Mary Black and Dolores Keane. Mary Black (born 22 May 1955, in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish Singer.

In 1992, she contributed vocals and cello to the track "Home of the Whale" on the Massive Attack EP Hymn of the Big Wheel. Massive Attack are an English Trip hop group founded in 1988 by Robert Del Naja, Grantley Marshall, and Andrew Vowles in Bristol Producer William Orbit liked it, contacted her, and eventually produced, and mixed, her debut solo album, Spirit, in 1995. William Orbit (born on 15 December 1956 as William Mark Wainwright in Shoreditch, Hackney) is an English Musician Also in 1995, she began recording with Canadian world music artist Loreena McKennitt, recording and touring as part of Loreena's band to this day.

A December 1999 article in the UK's Sunday Times reported that it was this album which drew Madonna's attention and initiated the successful collaboration of William Orbit and Madonna. The Sunday Times is a Sunday Broadsheet Newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16 1958 known as Madonna, is an American

She produced two further albums, Brilliant Midnight (2001), which, a year later, had three further tracks added in a reissue, and A Distant Bell in (2004).

Her "Home Of The Whale" track (with Massive Attack) was featured in the 2000 Ewan McGregor / Ashley Judd film, Eye Of The Beholder, and she also contributed her song Anxiety to the soundtrack of the 2001 John Dahl movie Roadkill (Joyride in the US). Ewan Gordon McGregor (born 31 March 1971 ˌjuːən məˈgrɛgər is a Scottish Actor, who has had significant success in mainstream indie and art Ashley Judd (born April 19, 1968) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her leading roles in a series of late 1990s and early Eye of the Beholder is a thriller movie starring Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd, based on the Novel of the same name John Dahl (born 1956 is an American Film director and Screenwriter, best known for the Neo-noir films Kill Me Again Joy Ride redirects here For other uses of "Joy Ride" or "Joyride" see Joyride.

She currently lives in the south of England and is working on her fourth album. She is also in tour with Loreena McKennitt for her Ancient Muse tour. Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt CM (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer composer harpist and pianist most famous for writing recording

Collaborations

Artist Album Year Contribution Song
Afro Celt Sound System Sound Magic Volume 1 1995 cello, vocals & giggling Jam Nation's "She Moved Through the Fair"
BT Emotional Technology 2003 cello & vocals "The Great Escape"
Chicane Far from the Maddening Crowds 1997 vocals & co-writing "Lost You Somewhere"
De Dannan Ballroom 1993 cello, vocals, arrangements ALL
Electric Strings quartet with
The Pogues
Pogue Mahone 1996 cello "Anniversary"
"Love You 'Til The End"
"Pont Mirabeau"
Hector Zazou Lights in the Dark
Strong Currents
L'Absence
1998
2003
2004
cello
vocals & lyrics
vocals & lyrics
ALL
"The Freeze"
"Lies Will Flow"
Loreena McKennitt A Winter Garden
Book of Secrets
Live Paris & Toronto
An Ancient Muse
Nights from the Alhambra
1996
1997
2001
2006
2007
cello
cello, viola da gamba
cello
cello
cello
ALL
ALL
ALL
ALL, except Tracks 1, 4
--
Massive Attack Hymn of the Big Wheel EP 1992 vocals & cello "Home of the Whale"
Muse Origin of Symmetry 2001 cello ALL
Nigel Kennedy Kafka 1996 vocals & co-writing "Breathing Stone"
Peter Gabriel Us 1992 cello ALL
Radiohead The Bends 1996 cello ALL
Sleepthief The Dawnseeker 2006 vocals & writing "Nightjar"
The Chieftains Further Down the Old Plank Road 2003 cello ALL
Vangelis Voices 1995 vocals & lyrics "Come to Me"

Thomas Dolby Cello Forty (album)

She has also worked with Laurie Anderson, The Waterboys, Loreena McKennitt, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Graham Parker, The Cranberries, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. The Afro Celt Sound System is a musical group which fuses modern dance rhythms ( Trip-hop, techno, etc Volume 1 Sound Magic is the first album by Afro Celt Sound System " She Moved Through the Fair " or " She Moves Through the Fair " is a traditional Irish Folk song. Brian Wayne Transeau (born October 4, 1971 in Rockville, Maryland) is an American music producer composer singer and songwriter better known Emotional Technology is the fourth artist Album by Electronica artist Brian Transeau, also known as BT. Chicane is an Electronic dance music act and the project of English musician and Record producer Far From The Maddening Crowds is the debut album by Chicane, the pseudonym of electronic musician Nick Bracegirdle De Dannan (originally Dé Danann) was an Irish Folk music group The Pogues are a band of mixed Irish and English background playing Traditional Irish music with influences from Punk rock, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane Hector Zazou ( July 11, 1948 — September 8, 2008) was a prolific French Composer and Record producer who has Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt CM (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer composer harpist and pianist most famous for writing recording The Book of Secrets is an album by Loreena McKennitt released in 1997 Live in Paris and Toronto is a two CD Live album by Loreena McKennitt, released in 1999 An Ancient Muse is the seventh full-length studio album of the Canadian singer songwriter accordionist harpist and pianist Loreena McKennitt. Nights from the Alhambra is a live album and DVD from the Canadian singer songwriter accordionist harpist and pianist Loreena McKennitt and is her Massive Attack are an English Trip hop group founded in 1988 by Robert Del Naja, Grantley Marshall, and Andrew Vowles in Bristol Muse are Nigel Kennedy (born 28 December 1956 in Brighton England) is a Violinist and Violist. Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950 in Chobham, Surrey, England) is an English Musician and Songwriter. Us is the sixth studio album (and ninth album overall by British rock musician Peter Gabriel, originally released in 1992 Radiohead The Bends is the second album by the English Alternative rock band Radiohead. Sleepthief is an American electronic music recording project formed by producer and composer Justin Elswick The Chieftains are a Grammy -winning Irish musical group founded in 1962 best known for being the first band to make Irish traditional music popular Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Born March 29, 1943 in Volos, Greece) ( Greek: Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου Voices is a 1995 album by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis. Laurie Anderson (born Laura Phillips Anderson, on June 5 1947 in Glen Ellyn Illinois) is an American experimental Performance artist and Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt CM (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer composer harpist and pianist most famous for writing recording Siouxsie & the Banshees were a British rock band which formed in 1976 Graham Parker (born 18 November 1950 in London, England is a British rock Singer and Songwriter. The Cranberries were an Irish rock band formed in Limerick in 1990 Art of Trance has remixed some of her songs. Art of Trance is Simon Berry, a Trance music artist from England.

Discography

Albums

  1. Turning Ground
  2. Moorlough Shore
  3. Dream Of Picasso
  4. Forget The Few
  5. Lagan Love
  6. A Case Of You
  7. Waiting For Rain
  8. Desire
  9. The Island
  10. Sleep Now
  11. Sheherezade
  1. Farther Than The Sun
  2. Anxiety
  3. Anima Rising
  4. She Said
  5. All I Have
  6. The Fall
  7. Siamant'o
  8. Karma
  9. Mangoes
  10. Le Pourquoi
  11. Firefly Night
  12. Universal
  13. Twisted Ends

(As above, but with 3 extra tracks):

  1. Lost Voices
  2. Home of the Whale
  3. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
  1. Gently Johnny
  2. So Uncool
  3. Innocence Sleeping
  4. Banks of the Nile
  5. Simple Lyric
  6. No More Words
  7. Too Late
  8. The Trees They Do Grow High
  9. Greenwood Laddie
  10. Timeless
  11. Handful of Ashes
  12. Farewell to Music (w. Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains)
  13. Gently Johnny (Extended Version)

Singles

Moorlough Shore
N-Gram Recordings (1995)

  1. LP mix - 4. 20
  2. Eye of the storm mix - 5. 39
  3. Thermionic resonance mix, 90 BMP, vocal - 5. 30
  4. Thermionic resonance mix, 97 BMP, dub - 5. 22
  5. Thermionic resonance mix, 90 BMP, dub - 5. 47
  6. Thermionic resonance mix, 107 BMP, dub - 5. 45

A Case Of You
N-Gram Recordings (1995)

  1. A case of you (single mix) - 4. 30
  2. Dream of picasso (monka monka mix) - 6. 53
  3. A case of you (psovi psovi mix) - 4. 31

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