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Biography
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Caroline Lavelle is a British singer-songwriter and Cello|cellist who has created three solo albums and contributed vocals, music, and production help to many other artists and bands.cite web|url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p95874/biography|pure_url=yes|title=Biography: Caroline Lavelle|last=Unterberger|first=Richie |publisher= Allmusic |accessdate=26 April 2010
Career
Lavelle studied at the Royal College of Music in London . Throughout the early to mid-eighties she busked in the city, often outside Kensington South Kensington tube station|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 .
She was spotted by Frankie Gavin , a member of Ireland's De Dannan band, who asked her to join. She was part of the band up to the early nineties, alongside Mary Black and Dolores Keane .
In 1992, she contributed vocals and cello to the track "Home of the Whale" on the Massive Attack EP Hymn of the Big Wheel . Producer William Orbit liked it, contacted her, and eventually produced, and mixed, her debut solo album, Spirit , in 1995. Her version of the song "Moorlough Shore" was used for the introduction to Paul Haggis 's critically acclaimed Crime-Drama EZ Streets . This brought her greater notice in the areas of film and television. 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 The Sunday Times (UK)|Sunday Times reported that it was this album which drew Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna's attention and initiated the successful collaboration of William Orbit and Madonna.
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 (film)| Eye Of The Beholder , and she also contributed her song Anxiety to the soundtrack of the 2001 John Dahl movie Roadkill ( Joy Ride (2001 film)| Joyride in the US).
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.
A Winter Garden The Book of Secrets Live in Paris and Toronto
1995 1997 1999 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
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She has also worked with Laurie Anderson , The Waterboys , Siouxsie and the Banshees , Graham Parker , The Cranberries , and Ryuichi Sakamoto . Art of Trance has remixed some of her songs.
Discography
Albums
Spirit (1995)
# Turning Ground # The Moorlough Shore|Moorlough Shore # Dream Of Picasso # Forget The Few # Lagan Love # A Case Of You # Waiting For Rain # Desire # The Island # Sleep Now # Sheherezade
Brilliant Midnight (2001)
# Farther Than The Sun # Anxiety # Anima Rising # She Said # All I Have # The Fall # Siamant'o # Karma # Mangoes # Le Pourquoi # Firefly Night # Universal # Twisted Ends
Brilliant Midnight 2.0 (2002)
(As above, but with 3 extra tracks): # Lost Voices # Home of the Whale # The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
A Distant Bell (2004)
# Gently Johnny # So Uncool # Innocence Sleeping # Banks of the Nile # Simple Lyric # No More Words # Too Late # The Trees They Do Grow High # Greenwood Laddie # Timeless # Handful of Ashes # Farewell to Music (w. Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains) # Gently Johnny (Extended Version)
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/101 TED Talks: Caroline Lavelle casts a spell on cello at TED (conference)|TED in 2005
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