Caroline Lavelle Biography

Caroline Lavelle is a British singer-songwriter and cellist who has created three solo albums and contributed vocals, music, and production help to many other artists and bands.

Lavelle studied at the Royal College of Music in London. Throughout the early to mid-eighties she busked in the city, often outside Kensington Tube Station and Covent Garden, playing baroque music with Anne Stephenson and Virginia Astley (or Virginia Hewes; sources are confused) in a group called Humouresque.
She was spotted by Frankie Gavin, a member of Irelands De Dannan band, who asked her to join. She was part of the band up to the early nineties, alongside Mary Black and Dolores Keane.

In 1992, she contributed vocals and cello to the track Home of the Whale on the Massive Attack EP Hymn of the Big Wheel. Producer William Orbit liked it, contacted her, and eventually produced, and mixed, her debut solo album, Spirit, in 1995. Her version of the song Moorlough Shore was used for the introduction to Paul Haggiss critically acclaimed Crime-Drama EZ Streets. This brought her greater notice in the areas of film and television. Also in 1995, she began recording with Canadian world music artist Loreena McKennitt, recording and touring as part of Loreenas band to this day.

A December 1999 article in the UKs Sunday Times reported that it was this album which drew Madonnas attention and initiated the successful collaboration of William Orbit and Madonna.

She produced two further albums, Brilliant Midnight (2001), which, a year later, had three further tracks added in a reissue, and A Distant Bell in (2004).

Her Home Of The Whale track (with Massive Attack) was featured in the 2000 Ewan McGregor Ashley Judd film, Eye Of The Beholder, and she also contributed her song Anxiety to the soundtrack of the 2001 John Dahl movie Roadkill (Joyride in the US).

She currently lives in the south of England and is working on her fourth album. She is also in tour with Loreena McKennitt for her Ancient Muse tour.

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