Celine Cairo (born 22 May 1990) is a Dutch singer and songwriter. As of 2023, she has released three EPs and four studio albums.
Biography
Celine Cairo started out as a singer-songwriter and guitarist in a trio, with Mart Jeninga (
HAEVN) on acoustic bass and Matthijs Lievaart on viola. The trio won several awards, leading to invitations to play at the
Amsterdam Concertgebouw and
Carnegie Hall
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(New York).
She released her first, self-titled EP, in 2010. After meeting English musician
Fink, she recorded her second EP, ''Follow'', which he produced.
In the fall of 2015, Cairo travelled to New York and Los Angeles and started writing and co-writing songs for what was to become her debut album, ''Free Fall''. She met producer and multi-instrumentalist Bill Lefler, who had previously worked with
Laura Jansen,
Ingrid Michaelson
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,
Carey Brothers
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, and
Dotan, and runs his own studio called Death Star Studio, in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
recording for the album took place in early 2016, and it was released the same year.
In 2018, Cairo re-recorded all songs from ''Free Fall'' in an acoustic setting at studio Helmbreker,
Haarlem
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, which resulted in ''The Hector Sessions'' album. In 2019, she issued the EP ''Siren Song'' and followed it in 2021 with the album ''Overflow''.
Discography
EPs
* ''Celine Cairo'' (2010)
* ''Follow'' (2013)
* ''Siren Song'' (2019)
Studio albums
* ''Free Fall'' (2016)
* ''Free Fall – 27 Tapes Session'' (2017)
* ''The Hector Sessions'' (2018)
* ''Overflow'' (2021)
Singles
* "Free Fall" (2016)
* "Hibernate" (2017)
* "Quicksand" (2017)
* "Method in the Madness" (2023)
References
External links
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1990 births
Living people
Singers from Amsterdam
21st-century Dutch singers
21st-century Dutch women singers