Karoline Hausted

The crisis in the music business is obvious to everyone, but some talent is so
big and forceful, they probably will find their way through and create themselves
a platform to be heard. Karoline Hausted is such a talent, and she has chosen
to take matters into her own hands by creating her own record label and
releasing her first solo album Double Silence.

(Sweden) and (Denmark) have featured her song Tap Tap Tap
in the documentary series "Mig Og Min Familie" created by Anders Agger.

Karoline writes in a beautiful way about her experiences, and although several
of the songs are written in the private sphere, they can be heard
by other ears and therefore gain a different meaning.

Biography

She grew up in a musical home, where you could barely take a step without
falling over an instrument. Both mother and father played music. Karoline's
musical heritage goes even further back, her grandfather was a professional
pianist during the golden age of Danish jazz.

She began to play piano at age 6 and wrote her first song at age 12 and
when she entered the conservatory preparation course after high school,
she was convinced that she wanted to become a jazz pianist. The idea was
however, dropped again as the spontaneous improvisation could not be
reconciled with Karolines urge to sit and puzzle with a song or a text before
it was even presented to anyone. Later she began recording her own songs
and when she sent them to various record companies, a large record
company showed interest in the songs.

While Karoline lived in Copenhagen during the period 2000-03, the dream
of an album release came true. With the band Salley Gardens, she released
the CD "Down To the River". The album was released by a small company who
could not afford to market the CD and while the band played a number of live
gigs the CD undeservedly did not get big attention.

Salley Gardens is now history and Karoline focuses instead on her solo project.
With piano as the main instrument, Karoline gets inspiration from many different
types of piano music and music in general. Karoline's can provide sound
reminiscent of early Kate Bush, Vashti Bunyan, and Linda Perhacs.

The song lyrics develop themselves mostly as incidents like dreams that want
to tell you something; but where you have to hunt a bit to find the meaning.

Karoline Hausted has among others contributed in Danish Radio P4's
"Karrierekanonen" in 2003 and for the SPOT festival with Salley Gardens in
2004, and at SPOT festival in 2007. She was among the 12 selected songwriters
who participated in the Nordic Co-writers session.

This artist is supported by:

MobileMusic, Koda, DMF, DJBFA and Statens Kunstfond.