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Liane Carroll

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Seaside (2015)	Ballads (2012)	Up and Down (2011)
Break Even (2008)	Slow Down (2007)	Dolly Bird (2007)
Standard Issue (2006)	Billy No Mates (2003)

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Hastings, England

Genre
Jazz

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Jazz

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Passionate

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1964

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1979 to Present...

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Liane Carroll (born 9 February 1964) is an English jazz vocalist, pianist and keyboardist known for her stylistically flexible playing and soul-inflected singing voice. Raised in a musical household in Hastings and south London, she began learning piano at the age of three, started composing at eight, and has worked professionally as a singer, pianist and composer since she was 15, when she joined the jazz/funk band Gemini.

After leaving school Carroll worked with a succession of bands, playing piano at Eastbourne's Grand Hotel and singing with its dance band at weekends. In the late 1980s she joined Trevor Watts' Moiré Music Drum Orchestra, touring India, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. She became a respected session musician, working in bands led by Dave Holdsworth, Gerry Rafferty, Jerry Donohue and Long John Baldry, and formed her own trio, featuring bassist Roger Carey, recording for the Jazz Art, Bridge and Ronnie Scott's Jazz House labels. From 1996 to 2002 she collaborated with singer-songwriter-guitarist Peter Kirtley, with whom she wrote many songs; the pair appeared together on a charity single for Brazilian street children on which Paul McCartney sang backing vocals. From 1996 she also worked with Hospital Records, touring internationally in 2003 with a band led by label owner Tony Colman and performing at the Brazilian Electro Dance Music Festival in Brasília. She has been the lead vocalist and Wurlitzer keyboardist for the drum and bass act London Elektricity, including its Live tour from 2003 to 2005.

In the early 2000s Carroll began recording for the Splash Point label, releasing recordings that blended jazz, R&B and the singer-songwriter tradition, before deciding in 2005 to focus primarily on jazz. That year she became the first artist to win two BBC Jazz Awards in the same year, for Best Vocalist and Best of Jazz, and in 2006 she won the Marston's Pedigree British Jazz Award for Vocalist of the Year. In 2008 she received the Jazz Musician of the Year award at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards, presented by Andy Burnham MP, and her album Up and Down won Jazz Album of the Year at the same awards in 2012. In 2016 she received a Gold award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA). Her five albums since 2009 have each received four-star reviews in The Guardian or The Observer, and critics including Dave Gelly, John Fordham, Peter Quinn and Nick Hasted have praised her improvisational range and emotional depth as a performer.

Carroll is a regular performer at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club and the 606 Club in London, and also teaches at jazz summer schools and workshops across the UK and Europe. In 2013 she appeared as a guest on Alex Horne's BBC Radio 4 comedy show Alex Horne Presents the Horne Section. She lives in Hastings with her husband, Roger Carey, bassist in the Liane Carroll Trio, and has a daughter, Abby.


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