Singer/songwriter Caroline Dawson was born in Oslo, Norway, by Norwegian mother and English father and has been living between London and Portugal for 25 years. She began playing the piano when she was 6 years old and was part of the rock duo “Pretty Goners” in Norway before she started composing her own songs in Portugal in 1997.
In 2001 she released her first EP and 2 of these songs were used for a soundtrack in two Brazilian soap operas, ”As Filhas da Mãe” and “Mulheres Apaixonados”. She played solo at various venues in Lisbon and during the European football championship in 2004. In 2013 her first album “Have You Felt the Change?” was released, this time accompanied by a piano, drums and double bass.
She has performed at Teatro do Bairro, Fábica Braço de Prata and Pensão Amor in Lisbon, Centro Cultural Olga Cadaval in Sintra, Casino Estoril and Cine Increível in Almada.
She collaborates on a regular basis as a songwriter with other artists, and was part of The Gulbenkian Choir in Lisbon performing Carmina Burana.
Her single “Some Days Lullaby” and her new album “ENIGMA” were released in 2016 at Teatro Ibérico in Portugal and online worldwide, as well as showcases at FNAC. Her music is available on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon Music and her video clips can be seen on YouTube including the acclaimed “MONOPOLYGAMY”, “Hey-Free man” and “Some days Lullaby”.
She recently won the prize for best Folk/singer-songwriter at THE AKADEMIA AWARDS.
Caroline Dawson has been working with two veteran musicians, Daryl Bass and Austin Reynolds, to form FEAR OF AN INFINITE LOOP. Their first release, THE HUMAN CONDITION, is available on major streaming platforms and is for sale on their website. Click the link below for more information.
“What is so paradoxal about Caroline Dawson’s songs is that contrary to the Southern-European nostalgy, she aspires to states of mind and soul
without hope and joy, almost with lack of affection.”
Nuno Nabais,owner of Fábrica Braço de Prata in Lisbon
"Caroline’s songs are simple, yet heartfelt, melodies and stories so
beautifully sombre that they require no labelling.”
Pedro Sousa, bassist
”Her songs should be listened to in silence, a kind of jazz with a sensitivity
which emphasizes the deepest, darkest side of the human soul, our worries, disappointments and joy. Her lyrics are melancholic, happy and sensitive at the same time. In spite of her melancholy one can sense a certain rebellion.
Superb, solemn and dark melodies”
Paula Cordeiro, Upmusic Talents
”This compact but dense collection of folk/singer-songwriter riches
is unrelentingly emphatic and persuasive due to its smooth-as-silk
diction and conscious messages”.
