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Artist
Caro Luna
12+ albums
female vocalistswedishpopmexicosong-writer
about
Caro Luna is a Swedish singer of Uruguayan descent. Her real name is Caroline Schröder. From Hyphenated Podcast interview: "My name is Caroline Schröder, as an artist I call myself Caro Luna. And right now I am in Stockholm in Sweden where I was born, but my parents are both from Uruguay and they came in the '70s to Sweden, yeah. So they came here as political refugees due to the dictatorship in Uruguay, and I was born like a year after they came here. And I also have been living in different parts for different periods in South America. So that's basically me. When I was little, before the democracy came back to Uruguay in 1985, we went a lot to Mexico. My parents were worked for SAS, the Scandinavian Airlines. So that made it a lot easier for us to be able to travel. So I traveled a lot as a kid. I almost grew up on airports. When I was a kid, since my first name and my last name they don't sound South American – I have a German last name because my grandfather's family are from Hamburg, Germany. My ancestors are from Germany, France, Spain and Italy, and they immigrated to Uruguay. So, because of that, I don't look like people imagine a person from South America – that could be different things – but I'm not the typical. And if you don't know about Uruguayan or Argentinian history, you might think that everybody looks pretty much the same, but in these parts the roots are European. So with this last name, with my looks, and the fact that my parents they wanted to be p
