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KAPLAN: So you formed your stage name out of your full name?ĮMERALD: Yeah! Caroline Esmerelda doesn’t really work.
How did you come up with that moniker?ĮMERALD: My real name is Caroline, and my second name is Esmerelda. I’ve played in LA, and I’ve done a showcase with a small setup. It would be really cool if she would ever consider that.ĮMERALD: I have. KAPLAN: Who are you hoping to play a show with?ĮMERALD: A whole show? Oh my God! I don’t know! It’s hard to choose someone because it has to fit, you know? It would be cool to work together with Lana Del Rey, for instance. In the summer, I will be doing some festivals and hopefully a big tour in the autumn.
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We just have to see, because we keep the schedule free for promotions. KAPLAN: Are you going to be touring in the spring, or are you going to be in the studio?ĮMERALD: I will be doing a small tour for now. It’s how they present the whole thing in photographs. It’s not just the clothing it’s the whole vibe around it. Whenever I see the photo shoots of their collections, I’m always in love with it. KAPLAN: Who are some of your favorite designers?ĮMERALD: I love Louis Vuitton. I used to be in a Motown cover band, and we would dress up like those ladies. I think it’s logical to choose your whole style according to your music. For this particular act, I was really looking for a customized kind of style. That’s the part of the stage that attracts me a lot: that I get to be able to dress up and wear really nice dresses. I mean, I’ve always been that kind of girl, playing with Barbie dolls and stuff. Does your music influence your style or vice versa?ĮMERALD: My music influences my style. KAPLAN: Your music is very bold, like your outfits.
I also like pop singers like Amy Winehouse and Lana Del Rey. I really love modern R&B like Rihanna and Beyoncé. I also listen a lot to soul music like Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder. I also really like Nina Simone and Dusty Springfield. I’m guessing people that influenced me a lot would be old-school jazz singers like Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Lionel Washington. I’ve listened to a lot of music over time, because I’ve also studied music. I will listen to anything in between jazz and pop, soul music, funk music, old soul, new soul, and R&B. I guess what I’m a big fan of is vocal music in general. What types of artists have influenced your sound?ĮMERALD: It differs a little bit. KAPLAN: One hears a variety of genres in the music you make. Sometimes you can say, “We’re going to work for a month, and then it will be finished.” Most of the time it’s not. We’re not sure, because it needs to be finished and right now it’s not. We have an idea of when it will be released. KAPLAN: On the second album? Do you have a release date for it yet?ĮMERALD: Not really.
We spoke with Emerald about her vintage sound and style, bringing back the music of previous decades, and her gem of a name.ĬARO EMERALD: No, I’m in the studio right now. It’s a seductive, soulful track that demonstrates her vocal versatility, as well as the cinematic quality of her voice to which her album title alludes.Įmerald was in the process of recording vocals for her upcoming second album when we called her. Once they heard her sing, the song-the catchy track “Back It Up,” below-ended up becoming just one single on a full-length album, Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor, released last year in the US. The story of her discovery, too, centers on old-fashioned kismet: Emerald was called into record vocals with producers David Schreurs and Jan van Wieringen, who had just one song that needed a singer. The Dutch musician mixes pop, 1940s and ’50s jazz, R&B, samba and more into her musical storytelling.
IMAGE COURTESY OF ADRIE MOUTHAANĬaro Emerald is a reincarnated Bettie Page with the voice of a speakeasy singer. Have a favourite song, artist, or album that you travel with? Let us know in the comments section.ABOVE: CARO EMERALD. I really enjoyed the show and was glad that my Fedora was still on my head, and not pulled down over my eyes like the guy blushing at table 2. I found myself listening, travelling from time to time and place to place, imagining Emerald moving from table to table as we’ve seen in so many movies, antagonising some poor soul at a table in the front row. She has a great range and very smooth delivery. What makes the album unique is the variety and the performances of Emerald on each cut. Back It Up would not be out-of-place on any top 40 Pop radio station, and is likely a regular addition in any club DJ’s arsenal. The album is categorised as Jazz, but with the varied styles it could also be categorised as Pop, but then again Pop has elements of everything that has gone before it.