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angela caran

...don't take this love for granted...

About Me

ANGELA CARAN, born in duesseldorf, germany, has been working as singer/songwriter for more than 10 years now with partners such asXAVER FISCHER, whom she met in 1999 and who invited her to appear as a guest singer on his xaver fischer trio's first (1999) and second album (2001).numerous live-performances followed, one of them being at the famous montreux jazz festival, before she was introduced to LEVENT CANSEVEN, a dj, producer and remixer from cologne.With LEVENT she collaborated on several remixes e.g. for moloko (the time is now), de la soul/chaka khan (all good), ricky martin (loaded) and levitation (more than ever people) (just to name a few), shortly before he started developing his CAN7-project together with angela caran, xaver fischer and guido craveiro, the latter another talented producer, as well as some of germany's top studio musicians.CAN7's debut album "safari club" was released on peppermint jam in 2003 and displays the musicians' wide range of musical and cultural influence reaching from jazz to electro.while she is also active in the field of arty-live-performances and sessions (e.g. with STU GRIMSHAW in his club-zone project), angela is currently working on her solo album.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/29/2006
Band Website: angelacaran.de
Band Members: me, myself and i -and every now and then, i have the pleasure of gigging/recording/jamming with talented musicians and/or producers, such asxaver fischer - eric harings - hannes vesper - levent canseven - guido craveiro - stu grimshaw - daniel schroeteler - manuel loos - oliver rockstedt - mirta junco - blain paulos - silvia palma - paul shigihara - christoph titz - emanuel stanley - joerg hartig - erdal tosun - mirko kamo - phil kullmann - patrick anthony - renis mendoza - roland peil - hanno busch - cosmo klein - patrick fa - thomas spiess - chevy hadley - uwe walter - marc l(e)ymann - claus fischer - uli biggemann - der wolf - n.d.n. - ono - denis cosmar - (... to be continued ...)
Influences: soulful music of any kind - lewis taylor - the crusaders - ella fitzgerald - marvin gaye - rachelle ferrell - stevie wonder - al jarreau - chet baker - mary j. blige - claudio baglioni - massive attack - tricky - supertramp - barbara streisand - the police - sting - larry heard - take 6 - joni mitchell - antonio carlos jobim - the jungle book (ost) - lucio battisti - george and ira gershwin - rickie lee jones - nat "king" cole - lauryn hill - the style council - paul weller - incognito - adriano celentano - jaco pastorius - lou rawls - paco de lucia - d'angelo - lucio dalla - the temptations - and so many more ...
Sounds Like: herself
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None