Caro Emerald

Caro Emerald (2013)

Caro Emerald live at the Leverkusener Jazz Days 2017

Caro Emerald (born April 26, 1981 in Amsterdam ; actually Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw ) is a Dutch pop and jazz singer .

Career

Emerald studied jazz singing at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music and graduated in 2005. In 2007 she stepped in as a replacement for demo recordings of the song Back It Up by producers David Schreurs and Jan van Vieringen and the Canadian songwriter Vince Degiorgio. Emerald later used the song in her own performances as well.

An appearance on a regional broadcaster then brought her greater fame in 2008, and she then posted a self-made video on YouTube , which further increased her popularity. Eventually Schreurs and van Vieringen founded their own label and, together with Emerald, recorded an album with the assistance of Degiorgio, which was musically based on swing jazz with tango and mambo rhythms from the 1940s and 1950s.

Caro Emerald (2008)

In summer 2009 her debut single Back It Up was released , which brought her her first chart hit in her home country. The second single A Night Like This followed at the end of the year . By the time her debut album was released, the song climbed into the top 10 and finally reached number 2 in the Nederlandse Top 40 . The album Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor entered the Netherlands at number 1 on the album charts. With interruptions it stayed at the top of the chart for 30 weeks, longer than any previous album in the Netherlands. It was awarded six times platinum for more than 300,000 copies sold. In September 2009 the debut single and album were released in Belgium, in October 2010 in Germany, where they also made it into the charts.

At the MTV Europe Music Awards 2010 she won the audience poll for best artist of the year in the Netherlands and Belgium. With her single A Night Like This she was able to land a number one hit in Austria in April 2011. In Germany, the song rose to number four in the charts.

In 2012 she was awarded the Golden Camera in the Best International Music category.

Her album The Shocking Miss Emerald was released in spring 2013 . In September of the same year, Emerald announced that the concerts, which were scheduled for March in the UK, would be postponed because she was pregnant. In March 2014 she became the mother of a daughter. Another daughter followed in 2017.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	NL
2010	Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor	DE5 platinum (66 weeks)DE	AT3 gold (38 weeks)AT	CH10 gold (34 weeks)CH	UK4th platinum (64 weeks)UK	NL1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (176 weeks)NL	First published: January 29, 2010
2013	The Shocking Miss Emerald	DE3 (16 weeks) DE	AT3 (11 weeks) AT	CH3 (19 weeks) CH	UK1 gold (50 weeks)UK	NL1 platinum (97 weeks)NL	First published: May 3, 2013

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	NL
2011	Live in Concert at the Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam	-	-	-	-	NL51 (2 weeks) NL	First published: May 20, 2011 with The Grandmono Orchestra
	Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor - Live	-	AT65 (1 week) AT	-	-	-	First release: 2011 with The Grandmono Orchestra

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	NL
2017	Emerald Island	-	-	-	-	NL40 (2 weeks) NL	First published: March 6, 2017

More EPs

• 2017: MO x Caro Emerald By Grandmono

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	NL
2009	Back It Up Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor	DE70 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	-	NL12 (12 weeks) NL	First published: July 6, 2009
	A Night Like This Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor	DE4th platinum (49 weeks)DE	AT1 gold (29 weeks)AT	CH9 platinum (28 weeks)CH	UK65 (4 weeks) UK	NL2 (26 weeks) NL	First published: December 11, 2009
2010	That Man Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor	-	-	-	UK84 (3 weeks) UK	NL22 (8 weeks) NL	First published: May 14, 2010
	Stuck Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor	DE41 (15 weeks) DE	AT42 (2 weeks) AT	-	-	NL6 (19 weeks) NL	First published: October 15, 2010
2011	Riviera Life Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor	-	-	-	-	NL18 (12 weeks) NL	First published: April 15, 2011
2013	Tangled Up The Shocking Miss Emerald	DE81 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK77 (2 weeks) UK	NL16 (13 weeks) NL	First published: February 18, 2013
	Liquid Lunch The Shocking Miss Emerald	-	-	-	UK70 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 21, 2013

Awards

• 2012 Golden Camera Best Music International
• 2012 Echo Newcomer of the Year (International)
• 2011 European Border Breakers Award (EBBA)

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1. ↑ Caro Emerald wins Best Dutch & Belgian Act! , MTV, October 20, 2010
2. ↑ It's a girl ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , regenbogen.de, March 27, 2014 
3. ↑ Lindanieuws
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK NL
5. ↑ ^{a b} Awards for music sales: DE AT CH UK NL

Web links

Commons : Caro Emerald  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Caro Emerald at Allmusic (English)
• Caro Emerald at Discogs (English)
• With flowers in her hair - Caro Emerald swings the 40s and 50s into the 21st century , musiclive, September 30, 2010
• Official website of Caro Emerald (English, Dutch)