Loading details…
Artist
Caroline NIN
10+ albums
frenchjazzchanson
about
Caroline Nin is a classic femme fatale, one that charms, intrigues and turns your imagination into a plethora of images, stories and memories through her mesmerizing personality, her captivating, rich voice and her own musical interpretations on a repertoire ranging from Piaf to Greco, Dietrich to Brel. Caroline Nin born in Paris, made her debut in the late 80’s at ‘The Hollywood Savoy’, swing and jazz venue, where she quickly attracted the attention of its punters interpreting the songs of Ella, Holiday and Vaughan and many other jazz icons that inspired her at the time. In the early 90’s Nin moved to London where she was asked by Marc Almond to perform at his thriving Soho venue ‘Freedom Theatre’ and where she sang classic cabaret standards (Brel, Kander, Ebb & Sondheim, Weill, Brecht) applying her own intellectual eroticism. The French Institute then chose her to promote French culture around Britain through a series of tours during 1994-1996. It really was when Vidal Sassoon’s artistic director spotted her at ‘Freedom Theatre’ to accompany his worldwide hairdressing conventions for his featured musical and cabaret shows that she began to turn heads globally and where she first entered into an intimate relationship with Edith Piaf singing her own adaptation of “La Vie en Rose”. Thanks to the response of this worldwide tour, which also included a stint at New York’s ‘Don’t Tell Mama’ on 43rd st, and her admiring British fans, Nin delved even further into the tragic and joyf
