Liane Carroll

Liane Carroll (born 9 February 1964) is an English jazz vocalist, pianist and keyboardist.

Early life Carroll's parents were semi-professional singers who met and sang at the Country Club in Eastbourne. She grew up in a musical household in Hastings and in south London. She started learning the piano at the age of three,

Career In 1998 Carroll joined Trevor Watts' Moiré Music band and toured overseas with them.

From 1996 onwards Carroll started working with Hospital Records. In 2003 she toured internationally with a band formed by Hospital Records' owner Tony Colman, playing at the Brazilian Electro Dance Music Festival in Brasília. In the early 2000s she began recording for the Splash Point label, releasing a series of recordings that embraced jazz, R&B and the singer-songwriter tradition. From 2005 onwards, she decided to focus on her jazz work. and Gerry Rafferty to Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

Awards and recognition In 2005 Carroll won two awards in the BBC Jazz Awards: Best Vocalist and Best of Jazz. In 2006 she won the Marston Pedigree Jazz Award for best vocalist. Her album Up and Down won in the Jazz Album of the Year category at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards in May 2012. In 2016 she won a Gold award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA).

Jazz critic Dave Gelly of The Observer described Carroll as "one of the most stylistically flexible pianists around, with a marvellous, slightly husky singing voice". According to John Fordham of The Guardian, she is "a powerful, soul-inflected performer with an Ella Fitzgerald-like improv athleticism and an emotional frankness on ballads". Peter Quinn of Jazzwise said, "Liane Carroll has that rare ability to meld effortless, often transcendent vocal and piano technique, with heart stopping emotion and soul bearing power." Nick Hasted of The Independent said she is "still frustratingly little-known" but "one of Britain's most emotionally visceral and accomplished singers".

Carroll's five albums since 2009 have each received four-starred reviews in The Guardian or The Observer.

Personal life Carroll lives in Hastings with her husband Roger Carey, bassist in the Liane Carroll Trio. She has a daughter, Abby.

Discography Dave Holdsworth-Liane Carroll Quartet

Liane Carroll

London Elektricity

PTH Projects featuring Liane Carroll

Chris Garrick and John Etheridge with Liane Carroll Album Record label Release date NotesWhen The World Stopped For Snow Flying Blue Whale Records Album (FLY 8) in 2013Liane Carroll sings on three of the tracks

Compilation albums Album Record label Release date NotesHospital AccapellasHospitalCD (NHS171) on 12 July 2010