Celine Cairo

Biography

Celine Cairo started out as a singer/songwriter with a trio: just guitar, acoustic bass and viola. The trio won several awards, leading to invitations to play at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Carnegie Hall (New York). Between 2010 and 2012 she attended the conservatoire in Amsterdam, studying vocals and songwriting. When Edwin Evers (radio 538) started playing her song "Got Me Good" things started to move in Celine's career. Evenually she decided to quit the conservatory and continue to make music full-time. She contacted Fin Greenall (Fink) and recorded her second EP with him.

After touring Holland, working with composer Jorrit Kleijnen, lending her vocals on a national TV-campaign by the NPO (Dutch Broadcasting Network) on "Iedereen is van de Wereld" she started making plans to go to the United States. She travelled to New York and Los Angeles and started writing and co-writing songs for what was to become her debut album. On that first trip in the fall of 2015 she met producer and multi-instrumentalist Bill Lefler. He has worked with Laura Jansen, Ingrid Michaelson, Carey Brothers and Dotan and works in his own studio called Death Star Studio, in Koreatown, Los Angeles.

Celine came back to Amsterdam with new songs and having found the sound she'd been looking for. She started making plans to return to Los Angeles to record the full album with Bill in LA. The recording took place in a six-week period in early 2015. She co-produced the album with Bill and had her band fly over to finish the album together in the last two weeks of the trip.

"Free Fall" (2016)

1. Free Fall
2. Hello Love
3. Friendly Fire
4. Cracks
5. See You Now
6. Sweet
7. Hibernate
8. Who Will Take Me There
9. Before I Let You Go
10. Quicksand

"Follow" (EP, 2013)

1. Follow
2. More
3. Frozen Waters

Untitled (EP, 2010)

1. Giving In
2. In The Light
3. Strangers
4. Got Me Good
5. Lonely Victories