Carole Facal

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Carole Facal , better known by her stage name Caracol , (born in Sherbrooke / Canada) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Québec . The indie pop musician performed and initially published mostly in French, which only changed in 2013 with the album Shiver , which was released with English lyrics.

Life

Facal is the daughter of a Uruguayan father and a Swiss mother. She grew up in the city of Sherbrooke , Québec. Her older brother is the right-wing liberal Parti Québécois politician Joseph Facal. She received classical violin lessons as a child and was always very athletic. At the age of 17 she decided to move to British Columbia to live professionally as a snowboard artist for a total of seven years . There she also bought a guitar and began to compose her own music and lyrics. When the sports career stopped working and became boring, she returned to music. She first joined the reggae band Kaliroots , then founded the music duo DobaCaracol in 1998 with the musician Dorianne Fabreg (Doba) . Both wore dreadlocks at times . The duo name is a fusion of both stage names. Together they created a percussive world music sound, released two successful albums, Le Calme Son (2001) and Soley (2004), and toured internationally in Europe and Asia. Soley sold more than 100,000 records worldwide, got gold status in Canada and won a Félix Award in Québec. In autumn 2007 they made a big tour of Germany with fourteen concerts in fifteen days.

When DobaCaracol broke up over personal and artistic disagreements in 2007, Carole Facal began working on her first solo album. That appeared in 2008 under the name L'arbre aux parfums (The tree of fragrances). The album is a mixture of reggae , rocksteady and other musical influences. It got a nomination for the Canadian Juno Music Prize in the Francophone Album of the Year category . In December 2009, she was booked to support Serena Ryder on a tour for Atlantic Canada . A European tour (France, Belgium, Switzerland), financed with prize money from the previous year, followed in March 2010.

Her 2011 album was called Blanc mercredi (White Wednesday), followed by another album called Shiver 2013, her first in English. With the album Blanc mercredi , she toured Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia as a solo artist in the summer of 2011. In 2014 there was a single Sabers , in 2017 there were two new singles Escaliers dorés (gilded stairs) and Les yeux transparents (The transparent eyes), as well as a piece called Saint-Sauveur on the compilation Nos forêts chantées (Our sung forests). The following year came an EP called Les yeux transparents . In the meantime, Facal earned her living as a sound engineer in film music production.

On November 2nd, 2018 Caracol released a new album called Symbolism with twelve new songs, produced by Joey Waronker ( Beck , Atoms for Peace ) from Los Angeles. On March 7, 2019, Hourglass was released as a single and on April 7, 2019 Classic Movie (featuring Twigg) .

She has a child with her then partner and music producer Sébastien Blais-Montpetit.

Carole Facal has lived in Montréal for a long time .

Discographic notes

Albums
  • DobaCaracol: Le Calme Son (2001)
  • DobaCaracol: Soley (2004) (CA: goldgold)
  • L'arbre aux parfums (2008)
  • Blanc mercredi (2011)
  • Shiver (2013)
  • Symbolism (2018)
EP
  • Les yeux transparents (2017)

Awards

  • 2005: Félix Award (together with Dorianne Fabreg aka Doba) for the album Soley
  • 2009: Prix des diffuseurs européens Sodec / RIDEAU
  • 2009: Prix Miroir de l'Artiste d'Ici of the Festival d'été de Québec
  • 2009: Nomination at the Juno Awards under album francophone de l'année for the album L'arbre aux parfums

Web links

Commons : Carole Facal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c Symbolism by Caracol AKA: Carole Facal , album review on genius.com, accessed November 28, 2019
  2. ↑ Top 10 in Quebec and Top 40 in Canada , franco-fete.ca June 2011, accessed November 28, 2019
  3. ↑ WebArchive March 2, 2012 on Caracol , accessed November 28, 2019
  4. ↑ Julie Rheaume: “Caracol: A busy year 2009” , August 14, 2009, archive report accessed November 28, 2019
  5. ↑ Caracol Tour 2011 , accessed November 28, 2019
  6. ↑ Albums et singles de Caracol: Symbolism , palmaresadisq.ca 2018-11-02, accessed November 28, 2019
  7. ↑ a b Caracol lance Blanc mercredi - Des jours plus lumineux , Le Devoir of October 21, 2011, accessed November 27, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Facal, Carole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caracole (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH between 1980 and 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Sherbrooke