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As a 7-year old Caroll started her music training with classical piano. After reached the excellence grade she stops for a few years to concentrate on her studies of engineering, in which she graduates in 1994 at the VUB in Brussels.
As there was no piano in Brussels (during her studies over there) she tries by other channels to stay in contact with the music. She organizes Scouts venues and Student venues and was the musical producer of the 2 venues at the University in 1992 and 1994. It is also in this period that she concentrates on singing. She follows a few singing and diction lessons during her studies and was a private student of David Linx at that time.
In 1992, during her studies at the VUB, she was working together with the great Peter Girth at the Staatstheater of Darmstadt in Germany.
After her studies in Brussels she started in 1995 at the conservatory of Ghent, where she finishes her candidatures and prepares her entry-examination for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
She did her post graduation in London at the Guildhall where she finishes with excellence in 1998.
In 1996, While she was studying at the conservatory, she sang the part of Lauretta for the CD of the musical Extasy, written and produced by Alexander Rahbari, who was during 11 years the conductor of the BRTN-Philharmonic Orchestra. This CD came out in 1999 under the label Discover of Koch International.
In 1997 Caroll participates at a TV contest where she became finalist with the song Calling You from the beautiful movie Bagdad Cafe.
Since September 1998 she's working for the company Panasonic Technics, where she does the singing on all the demonstrations for the season 1998-1999 with the pianist/arranger Piet Meersschaut.
In the meanwhile she's singing for jazz and pop gigs in Belgium and abroad (as brunches in Hilton and Arenberg, big bands, gigs for Lions and Rotary, Christmas- and musical concerts, weddings an receptions, backing vocals, fancy fairs, etc) and she teaches singing and music in private schools Clavissimo and Ozma.
In January 1999 she creates the cover-group O-Position with 7 professional jazz musicians, where she's the lead voice, and she's playing the backing-vocals herself with her vocalist (on keyboard).
September 1999: release of a single CD No Scrubs of North West featuring Caroll
February 2000 : semi-finals of a TV contest with a reggae version of the song Memory from the musical Cats
2001: She's a member of the group Mezcal (with leader Luiz Marquez) which is a group that brings original ethnic music with a lot of influences from jazz. She also sings on Luiz’s album at that time.
2002-2005 : Caroll has a little boy and a little girl and decides to take a rest for a while and starts writing her own songs and lyrics.
In 2006 she started to write songs for her new album Colours (released in 2008)! She wanted to mix all the influences she had into one CD.
In 2007 she did the vocals on Luiz Marquez’s new album and some backing vocals on Enrique Tarde’s new album.
She also started a duo project with the great piano player Johan Sabbe.
Meanwhile she’s already starting to write songs for her next album…
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