Carleen Anderson
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Carleen Anderson is an American
soul singer, who has had success in the United Kingdom
. She is the daughter of the singer Vicki Anderson
and stepdaughter of Bobby Byrd
, and is most well known as the lead singer in the Young Disciples
as well as for her own solo career.
who featured with James Brown
during the 1960s and 1970s. Vicki Anderson (birth name, Myra Barnes) married Bobby Byrd
(soul singer and childhood friend of James Brown) who formed a group with James Brown in the late 1950s called The Flames, which was later named, James Brown & The Famous Flames
. After a brief marriage, Anderson gave birth to a son, Bobby Anderson, in 1979. After the divorce, Anderson lived as a single mother in Los Angeles where she received several scholarships to study classical and jazz music performance, as well as music education, at Los Angeles City College (LACC) and the University of Southern California (USC). Anderson also studied Creative Literature at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). During her studies, Anderson worked as a student tutor for extra income to support herself and her child. Anderson’s goal at the time was to become a music school teacher, but her plans were thwarted when President Ronald Reagan took music out of the curriculum in the government-sponsored schools. With only one semester left before completing her music degree, circumstances caused Anderson to take office-clerk jobs to make ends meet. In a 2005 Echoes magazine interview, Anderson says that a career in music performance was not at all on her agenda at that time.
The following summer, after her Godfather, James Brown, was incarcerated in 1988, several artists from the James Brown Show toured worldwide as ‘Bobby Byrd and the JB All Stars’. It was the summer of 1989, and Anderson was asked to join the tour as the opening act. She saw this as an opportunity to have a ‘working’ holiday in Europe with her son. With her brothers Bartlett Anderson on keyboards and Tony Byrd on drums, they continued touring with the collective until 1990. Whilst on the road, Anderson was the understudy for Vicki Anderson, Marva Whitney
, Lyn Collins
and Martha High
, with additional tutelage by Maceo Parker
, Pee Wee Ellis
and Fred Wesley
.
Anderson met Marco Nelson and Femi Williams, who later formed the Young Disciples
, on this tour with Bobby Byrd and the JB All Stars. Her first London performance of Denise William’s Free at the then Town and Country Club (now, the Kentish Town Forum, also known as the HMV Forum) so impressed the UK natives that DJ/bassist/music producer Marco Nelson and DJ/music producer Femi Williams suggested Anderson move to England to start a singing career. This was the first time Anderson even considered such a path, and it took some convincing. She was swayed when told she could get steady work as a session singer and a songwriter. Ultimately, Anderson was motivated by the positive impact she felt raising her son in the UK would have on his life, as she could sense the violent turbulence brewing in her son’s birth town of Los Angeles, where they had lived for 10 years. In a 1998 Pride magazine interview, Anderson describes how she received much resistance from family members regarding to her relocating to the UK. However, the Rodney King riots that exploded soon after Anderson’s expatriation were proof, as far as she was concerned, that her decision to move was the right thing to do.
Upon relocating with her son to the UK in the summer of 1990, Marco Nelson and Femi Williams introduced Anderson to the stirring UK underground music scene, which (for lack of a better name) was called Acid Jazz
. Anderson sang lead and background vocals on a variety of music products in that season, including collaborations with Paul Weller
, Bryan Ferry
, Galliano
, Guru
and Courtney Pine
, as well as recording under the assumed name of Mardou Fox for several ‘white label’ releases for record producer, Eddie Pillar. Also in 1990, Gilles Peterson
and Sir Norman Jay
(both top UK-based internationally acclaimed DJs) were elected by the Talkin’ Loud
record label to recruit new music acts. Peterson, Jay, Nelson and Williams already had a bond as fellow DJs, resulting in Peterson and Jay signing the Young Disciples. Marco Nelson’s alliance with Paul Weller, gave the Young Disciples the advantage of recording in Weller’s Marble Arch-located Solid Bond studio, where they recorded their album, Road to Freedom
. The single release, Apparently Nothing, gained critical and commercial acclaim. Nelson and Williams focused on the production aspects of the music, shunning the promotional tasks required for marketing the project, which meant Anderson was courted by several record companies to pursue a solo career. This friction divided the musical group. With her priority as a single mother to provide a secure future for her son, Anderson felt her best option was as a solo artist. In a October 2011 Jazz FM radio interview with BBC presenter, Jumoke Fashola, Anderson states that a solo music performance career, up until that time, had been the furthest thing from her mind.
’s compilation album, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool, released in 1994 to promote awareness of the HIV epidemic in the African-American community. The album included numerous stellar artists and was heralded as “Album of the Year” by Time
magazine.
Anderson’s second solo album, Blessed Burden, released in 1998, was co-produced by Paul Weller. Anderson again wrote most of the songs with some co-written with Weller and a few covers. Weller supported Anderson in her creative extension, but the Virgin record company executives became disenchanted by the new direction of Anderson’s live music recordings, as they were in such direct contrast to the sampling and drum looping production techniques acquired from Anderson’s Young Disciple days, which were used as a format for her True Spirit album. Subsequently, Virgin dropped Anderson after the Blessed Burden album.
During the recording of this album, Anderson forged alliances with the Brand New Heavies
. After being dismissed from Virgin, Anderson accepted the offer from the Brand New Heavies to stand in for their lead singers, N’Dea Davenport and Siedah Garrett
, to promote the Brand New Heavies ‘best of’ album, Trunk Funk, from January 1999 to September 2000 on a worldwide tour.
, Anderson formed a friendship with saxophonist, Ben Castle
, son of the famed trumpeter, Roy Castle
. Castle encouraged Anderson to continue her solo career via the independent route and provided the means for her to release her first independent album, Alberta's Granddaughter, in 2002, for which Anderson received a variety of favorable press reviews. The one single release from that album, a cover of Noel Gallagher’s Don’t Look Back in Anger, was a highly praised featured performance on her 2004-2005 tours with Courtney Pine’s British Council sponsored European events.
In 2003, Ben Castle suggested the production skills of Mark Edwards and the engineering expertise of Colin Walker, alongside filmmaker, Tim Johnson and Andy Hutch, to record Anderson’s performance at the Glee Club in Birmingham, England. Live CD/DVD gaining critical media acclaim from magazines Mojo, Blues & Soul, as well as from the BBC.
These acknowledgements led EMI to release a ‘best of’ Carleen Anderson CD, entitled, Up To Now: The Best Of, in 2004, which included a variety of popular and rare performances across the length of Anderson’s career.
In 2005, UK based, Dome Records, released Anderson’s Soul Providence CD, also co-produced by the Ben Castle, Mark Edwards and Colin Walker team. Soul Providence comprised totally of Anderson’s self-penned songs, save for one, a cover of Leon Ware’s Wanna Be Where You Are. Anderson recorded this song first made famous by the Jackson Five in 1971 as a duet with Paul Weller. Another duet on Soul Providence is with Jocelyn Brown. Soul Providence was praised by Blues & Soul magazine, as Anderson’s best body of work since her Young Disciples days.
In 2006, Anderson sang at the Stables, the music forum established by Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine. In the introduction for Anderson to sing with Sir John Dankworth and his band, Dame Cleo Laine’s enthusiasm sparked the interest of the Ronnie Scott’s promoter who was in the audience. Since then, Anderson continues to have sold out audiences at Ronnie Scott’s with residencies over several nights. A Live at Ronnie’s recording was made in 2010, but the release was delayed due to the tragic loss of the Ronnie Scott’s house drummer, Chris Dagley, who was on the performance and died in a motor accident a few months after the recording. As the club and the band recover from the shock of their much loved and valued band member, they plan to release the Live at Ronnie’s CD, in 2012.
Anderson’s vocal music also appears in the 2006 film, The Fall.
From 2002 to 2007, Anderson taught vocal music at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music, where she was also Head of the Vocal Department. This association, led to the connection with theatre promoter, Julian Boast, who arranged for Anderson to sing for and meet HRH Queen Elizabeth at the Royal Theatre, Brighton, in 2007. In her 2010 interview on Paris TV show, One Shot Not, Anderson speaks of her initial plans to be a music teacher, without any consideration of ever having a career in music performance.
Currently, Anderson is writing for her next studio album, scheduled for release in 2012, as well as preparing for a tour with her Soul Trio, with Anderson on keyboards and vocals, with a selection of highly regarded bass players and drummers.
Anderson’s is managed by Jim Lawn at Clas Management. Anderson’s music company is Dusky Sappho Music.
United States
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soul singer, who has had success in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. She is the daughter of the singer Vicki Anderson
Vicki Anderson
Vicki Anderson is a soul singer best known for her performances with the James Brown Revue. She recorded a number of singles under both her birth and stage names...
and stepdaughter of Bobby Byrd
Bobby Byrd
Bobby Byrd born Robert Howard Byrd was an American funk/soul/R&B/gospel musician, songwriter and record producer. He was born in Toccoa, Georgia, and is a 1998 winner of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's prestigious Pioneer Award...
, and is most well known as the lead singer in the Young Disciples
Young Disciples
Young Disciples was a British / American acid jazz band, formed in London in 1990 by Carleen Anderson , Marc Nelson plus Femi Williams ....
as well as for her own solo career.
Early career
Anderson was raised by her paternal grandparents, David Sr. and Alberta Anderson, in Houston, Texas, during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Pastor Anderson’s Pentecostal church was located in the Fifth Ward political district of North Houston, populated by working class African-Americans, many of whom were migrant sharecroppers, and their descendants, from Louisiana. By the time Anderson was 3 years old, she was singing solos in front of the congregation. By the age of 7, Anderson was playing piano by ear, directing the church choir and writing church songs every week for the choir to sing before her grandfather would deliver his Sunday sermons. The gospel music atmosphere was enhanced by Anderson having the benefit of her Aunt Betty Faye Anderson, soprano soloist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Her Uncle, David Anderson Jr., and his daughters, Pamela and Jhelisa, along with their mother, Yvonne, had a very successful family gospel singing group that travelled the southern US states. Anderson’s birth father, Dr. Reuben Anderson Sr., is pastor of the Tower of Faith Evangelistic Church of God in Christ, in Compton California. Her mother is soul singer, Vicki AndersonVicki Anderson
Vicki Anderson is a soul singer best known for her performances with the James Brown Revue. She recorded a number of singles under both her birth and stage names...
who featured with James Brown
James Brown
James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...
during the 1960s and 1970s. Vicki Anderson (birth name, Myra Barnes) married Bobby Byrd
Bobby Byrd
Bobby Byrd born Robert Howard Byrd was an American funk/soul/R&B/gospel musician, songwriter and record producer. He was born in Toccoa, Georgia, and is a 1998 winner of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's prestigious Pioneer Award...
(soul singer and childhood friend of James Brown) who formed a group with James Brown in the late 1950s called The Flames, which was later named, James Brown & The Famous Flames
The Famous Flames
The Famous Flames was an R&B vocal group founded by Bobby Byrd that recorded and performed with James Brown during the early years of his career...
. After a brief marriage, Anderson gave birth to a son, Bobby Anderson, in 1979. After the divorce, Anderson lived as a single mother in Los Angeles where she received several scholarships to study classical and jazz music performance, as well as music education, at Los Angeles City College (LACC) and the University of Southern California (USC). Anderson also studied Creative Literature at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). During her studies, Anderson worked as a student tutor for extra income to support herself and her child. Anderson’s goal at the time was to become a music school teacher, but her plans were thwarted when President Ronald Reagan took music out of the curriculum in the government-sponsored schools. With only one semester left before completing her music degree, circumstances caused Anderson to take office-clerk jobs to make ends meet. In a 2005 Echoes magazine interview, Anderson says that a career in music performance was not at all on her agenda at that time.
The following summer, after her Godfather, James Brown, was incarcerated in 1988, several artists from the James Brown Show toured worldwide as ‘Bobby Byrd and the JB All Stars’. It was the summer of 1989, and Anderson was asked to join the tour as the opening act. She saw this as an opportunity to have a ‘working’ holiday in Europe with her son. With her brothers Bartlett Anderson on keyboards and Tony Byrd on drums, they continued touring with the collective until 1990. Whilst on the road, Anderson was the understudy for Vicki Anderson, Marva Whitney
Marva Whitney
Marva Whitney is an African American funk singer. She is considered by many funk enthusiasts to be one of the "rawest" and "brassiest" music divas....
, Lyn Collins
Lyn Collins
Lyn Collins was an African American soul singer best known for working with James Brown in the 1970s. Contrary to some reports, she is not related to Bootsy Collins, nor Catfish Collins....
and Martha High
Martha High
Martha High is an American female vocalist.Harvin grew up in Washington, D.C., attending Roosevelt High School and singing in Trinity AME Zion Church. She began singing in The Four Jewels after the departure of Carrie Mingo...
, with additional tutelage by Maceo Parker
Maceo Parker
Maceo Parker is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, as well as Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s. Parker was a prominent soloist on many of Brown's hit recordings, and a key part of his band, playing alto, tenor and baritone saxophones...
, Pee Wee Ellis
Pee Wee Ellis
Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis is an American saxophonist, composer and arranger. He was an important member of James Brown's band in the 1960s and appeared on many of Brown's most notable recordings...
and Fred Wesley
Fred Wesley
Fred Wesley is an American jazz and funk trombonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:...
.
Anderson met Marco Nelson and Femi Williams, who later formed the Young Disciples
Young Disciples
Young Disciples was a British / American acid jazz band, formed in London in 1990 by Carleen Anderson , Marc Nelson plus Femi Williams ....
, on this tour with Bobby Byrd and the JB All Stars. Her first London performance of Denise William’s Free at the then Town and Country Club (now, the Kentish Town Forum, also known as the HMV Forum) so impressed the UK natives that DJ/bassist/music producer Marco Nelson and DJ/music producer Femi Williams suggested Anderson move to England to start a singing career. This was the first time Anderson even considered such a path, and it took some convincing. She was swayed when told she could get steady work as a session singer and a songwriter. Ultimately, Anderson was motivated by the positive impact she felt raising her son in the UK would have on his life, as she could sense the violent turbulence brewing in her son’s birth town of Los Angeles, where they had lived for 10 years. In a 1998 Pride magazine interview, Anderson describes how she received much resistance from family members regarding to her relocating to the UK. However, the Rodney King riots that exploded soon after Anderson’s expatriation were proof, as far as she was concerned, that her decision to move was the right thing to do.
Upon relocating with her son to the UK in the summer of 1990, Marco Nelson and Femi Williams introduced Anderson to the stirring UK underground music scene, which (for lack of a better name) was called Acid Jazz
Acid jazz
Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly looped beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic dance: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd and Grant Green are...
. Anderson sang lead and background vocals on a variety of music products in that season, including collaborations with Paul Weller
Paul Weller
Paul Weller is an English singer-songwriter. Starting with the band The Jam , Weller then went on to branch out musically to a more soulful style with The Style Council...
, Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry, CBE is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to public prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten charts in...
, Galliano
Galliano (band)
Galliano were a London-based acid jazz group, which started in 1988. The group was the first signing to Eddie Piller and Gilles Peterson's Talkin' Loud label. The original members were Rob Gallagher , Constantine Weir , Michael Snaith , and Crispin Robinson...
, Guru
Guru (rapper)
Keith Edward Elam , better known by his stage name Guru, was an American emcee and member of the hip-hop duo Gang Starr, along with DJ Premier. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts...
and Courtney Pine
Courtney Pine
Courtney Pine CBE is an English jazz musician. At school he studied the clarinet, although he is known primarily for his saxophone playing. Pine is a multi-instrumentalist, also playing the flute, clarinet, bass Clarinet and keyboards...
, as well as recording under the assumed name of Mardou Fox for several ‘white label’ releases for record producer, Eddie Pillar. Also in 1990, Gilles Peterson
Gilles Peterson
Gilles Peterson , is a DJ, record collector and record label owner from London, UK. Through his labels Acid Jazz, Talkin' Loud, and latterly Brownswood Recordings, he has been associated with the careers of well-known artists of the 1990s such as Erykah Badu, Roni Size and Jamiroquai...
and Sir Norman Jay
Norman Jay
Norman Jay MBE is an innovative and pioneering British DJ. He first came to prominence playing unlicensed or 'warehouse' parties in the early 1980s, such as Shake 'n' Fingerpop. His diverse and deep musical knowledge and his refusal to be restricted to playing from any single genre distinguishes...
(both top UK-based internationally acclaimed DJs) were elected by the Talkin’ Loud
Talkin' Loud
Talkin' Loud is a record label started by Gilles Peterson at Phonogram in 1990 after he left Acid Jazz Records. The label name is based on Peterson's club night "Talkin' Loud And Sayin' Something", itself a reference to James Brown and Bobby Byrd's "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing".The first...
record label to recruit new music acts. Peterson, Jay, Nelson and Williams already had a bond as fellow DJs, resulting in Peterson and Jay signing the Young Disciples. Marco Nelson’s alliance with Paul Weller, gave the Young Disciples the advantage of recording in Weller’s Marble Arch-located Solid Bond studio, where they recorded their album, Road to Freedom
Road to Freedom (album)
Road to Freedom is the debut album of soul and jazz band Young Disciples, the only album the band ever released. Issued in 1991 on the Talkin' Loud label in the UK and on Polygram in the US, the critically well-received album was influential in the music genres of acid jazz and neo soul...
. The single release, Apparently Nothing, gained critical and commercial acclaim. Nelson and Williams focused on the production aspects of the music, shunning the promotional tasks required for marketing the project, which meant Anderson was courted by several record companies to pursue a solo career. This friction divided the musical group. With her priority as a single mother to provide a secure future for her son, Anderson felt her best option was as a solo artist. In a October 2011 Jazz FM radio interview with BBC presenter, Jumoke Fashola, Anderson states that a solo music performance career, up until that time, had been the furthest thing from her mind.
Solo career
Through her association with the Young Disciples, Anderson met Ashley Newton, the then Circa label head, who later joined the Virgin Records music company. Amidst the variety of record companies vying to sign Anderson at the time, it was this previous meeting with Ashley Newton that led Anderson to sign with Virgin Records. Her first album was preceded by the marketing EP Dusky Sappho in 1993. The album True Spirit, released in 1994, had pop chart success with single releases Mama Said and Nervous Breakdown. Anderson wrote most of the songs on the album with some songs co-written with producer, Ian Green. Another single lifted from the album that charted well was Let It Last, co-written with Mark Nevin of Fairground Attraction. The album was nominated for a Best International Newcomer BRIT Award, in 1995. Anderson sang on the Red Hot OrganizationRed Hot Organization
Red Hot Organization is a not-for-profit, 501 3, international organization dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture.Since its inception in 1989, over 400 artists, producers and directors have contributed to over 15 compilation albums, related television programs and media events to raise...
’s compilation album, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool, released in 1994 to promote awareness of the HIV epidemic in the African-American community. The album included numerous stellar artists and was heralded as “Album of the Year” by Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
magazine.
Anderson’s second solo album, Blessed Burden, released in 1998, was co-produced by Paul Weller. Anderson again wrote most of the songs with some co-written with Weller and a few covers. Weller supported Anderson in her creative extension, but the Virgin record company executives became disenchanted by the new direction of Anderson’s live music recordings, as they were in such direct contrast to the sampling and drum looping production techniques acquired from Anderson’s Young Disciple days, which were used as a format for her True Spirit album. Subsequently, Virgin dropped Anderson after the Blessed Burden album.
During the recording of this album, Anderson forged alliances with the Brand New Heavies
Brand New Heavies
The Brand New Heavies are an acid jazz and funk group formed in 1985 in Ealing, a suburb of London, England.-Biography:The Brand New Heavies began in the 1980s as an instrumental acid jazz group called Brother International....
. After being dismissed from Virgin, Anderson accepted the offer from the Brand New Heavies to stand in for their lead singers, N’Dea Davenport and Siedah Garrett
Siedah Garrett
Siedah Garrett is an American songwriter and singer.-Biography:She appeared as a contestant on Password Plus in 1980.She performed "One Man Woman" on Quincy Jones' Grammy-Award winning "Back on the Block."...
, to promote the Brand New Heavies ‘best of’ album, Trunk Funk, from January 1999 to September 2000 on a worldwide tour.
Independent years
Whilst touring with the Brand New HeaviesBrand New Heavies
The Brand New Heavies are an acid jazz and funk group formed in 1985 in Ealing, a suburb of London, England.-Biography:The Brand New Heavies began in the 1980s as an instrumental acid jazz group called Brother International....
, Anderson formed a friendship with saxophonist, Ben Castle
Ben Castle
Ben Castle is a British jazz musician, the son of the late television actor and entertainer Roy Castle . He placed first in the Jazz category of the 2003 International Songwriting Competition with his song "The Heckler"....
, son of the famed trumpeter, Roy Castle
Roy Castle
Roy Castle OBE was an English dancer, singer, comedian, actor, television presenter and musician. He attended Honley High School, where there is now a building in his name...
. Castle encouraged Anderson to continue her solo career via the independent route and provided the means for her to release her first independent album, Alberta's Granddaughter, in 2002, for which Anderson received a variety of favorable press reviews. The one single release from that album, a cover of Noel Gallagher’s Don’t Look Back in Anger, was a highly praised featured performance on her 2004-2005 tours with Courtney Pine’s British Council sponsored European events.
In 2003, Ben Castle suggested the production skills of Mark Edwards and the engineering expertise of Colin Walker, alongside filmmaker, Tim Johnson and Andy Hutch, to record Anderson’s performance at the Glee Club in Birmingham, England. Live CD/DVD gaining critical media acclaim from magazines Mojo, Blues & Soul, as well as from the BBC.
These acknowledgements led EMI to release a ‘best of’ Carleen Anderson CD, entitled, Up To Now: The Best Of, in 2004, which included a variety of popular and rare performances across the length of Anderson’s career.
In 2005, UK based, Dome Records, released Anderson’s Soul Providence CD, also co-produced by the Ben Castle, Mark Edwards and Colin Walker team. Soul Providence comprised totally of Anderson’s self-penned songs, save for one, a cover of Leon Ware’s Wanna Be Where You Are. Anderson recorded this song first made famous by the Jackson Five in 1971 as a duet with Paul Weller. Another duet on Soul Providence is with Jocelyn Brown. Soul Providence was praised by Blues & Soul magazine, as Anderson’s best body of work since her Young Disciples days.
In 2006, Anderson sang at the Stables, the music forum established by Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine. In the introduction for Anderson to sing with Sir John Dankworth and his band, Dame Cleo Laine’s enthusiasm sparked the interest of the Ronnie Scott’s promoter who was in the audience. Since then, Anderson continues to have sold out audiences at Ronnie Scott’s with residencies over several nights. A Live at Ronnie’s recording was made in 2010, but the release was delayed due to the tragic loss of the Ronnie Scott’s house drummer, Chris Dagley, who was on the performance and died in a motor accident a few months after the recording. As the club and the band recover from the shock of their much loved and valued band member, they plan to release the Live at Ronnie’s CD, in 2012.
Anderson’s vocal music also appears in the 2006 film, The Fall.
From 2002 to 2007, Anderson taught vocal music at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music, where she was also Head of the Vocal Department. This association, led to the connection with theatre promoter, Julian Boast, who arranged for Anderson to sing for and meet HRH Queen Elizabeth at the Royal Theatre, Brighton, in 2007. In her 2010 interview on Paris TV show, One Shot Not, Anderson speaks of her initial plans to be a music teacher, without any consideration of ever having a career in music performance.
Currently, Anderson is writing for her next studio album, scheduled for release in 2012, as well as preparing for a tour with her Soul Trio, with Anderson on keyboards and vocals, with a selection of highly regarded bass players and drummers.
Anderson’s is managed by Jim Lawn at Clas Management. Anderson’s music company is Dusky Sappho Music.
Solo recordings
- True Spirit (Circa/Virgin, 1994) UKUK Albums ChartThe UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
#12 - True Spirit - Remixes (Circa/Virgin, 1995)
- Blessed Burden (Circa/Virgin, 1998) UK #51
- Alberta's Granddaughter (Dusky Sappho Music, 2002)
- Up To Now: The Best Of (Virgin, 2004)
- Soul Providence (Dome, 2005)
- Live at Ronnie Scott's (TBC, 2011)
- New Studio Album (TBC, 2012)
Solo singles
- "Nervous Breakdown" (1994) UKUK Singles ChartThe UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
#27 - "Mama Said" (1994) UK #26
- "True Spirit" (1994) UK #24
- "Let It Last" (1995) UK #16
- "Maybe I'm AmazedMaybe I'm Amazed"Maybe I'm Amazed" is a song written by Paul McCartney that was first released on his McCartney album on 17 April 1970. The studio version from the album has never been released as a single. McCartney dedicated the song to his wife, Linda, who had helped him get through the break-up of The Beatles...
" (1998) UK #24 - "Woman in Me" (1998) UK #74
Under the alias Mardou Fox
- Subterraneans feat. Mardou Fox "Taurus Woman" (1993)
- Numbers "Ballad of Mardou Fox", "Traffic", "Mardous Lament", "Jack Summerset" (2001)
Collaborations
- Duet with Omar "Who Changes the Seasons" (1992)
- Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 "Sights in the City" (1993)
- IncognitoIncognito (band)Incognito is a British band, as well as one of the members of the United Kingdom's acid jazz movement. Their debut album, Jazz Funk, was released in 1981, with thirteen more albums following, the last of which, Transatlantic RPM, was released in 2010....
"Trouble don't always last" (1994) (with Ramsey LewisRamsey LewisRamsey Emmanuel Lewis, Jr. is an American jazz composer, pianist and radio personality. Ramsey Lewis has recorded over 80 albums and has received seven gold records and three Grammy Awards so far in his career.-Biography:...
) - Duet with Lewis Taylor "18 With a Bullet" (1998)
- The Brand New HeaviesBrand New HeaviesThe Brand New Heavies are an acid jazz and funk group formed in 1985 in Ealing, a suburb of London, England.-Biography:The Brand New Heavies began in the 1980s as an instrumental acid jazz group called Brother International....
"Saturday Nite", "Apparently Nothing", "Try My Love", "Swinging Big Tom" - The London Community Gospel ChoirLondon Community Gospel ChoirThe London Community Gospel Choir is a successful gospel choir located in the United Kingdom.-History:The London Community Gospel Choir was founded in 1982 by the Reverend Bazil Meade with the assistance of Lawrence Johnson, Delroy Powell and John Francis.Initially the idea was for a single concert...
"Whenever You Call" (2001) - Agent K. "Ride Away Getaway" (2002)
- Andy Hamill "Falling" (2003) (with Tony Woods)
- Full Flava's album Colour of My SoulColour of My SoulColour of My Soul is the second studio album released by Full Flava, which is the brainchild of a group of two writers and musicians based in Birmingham - Rob Derbyshire and Paul 'Solomon' Mullings, assisted by back-up vocalist Tee...
, Carlen performs lead vocals on "Stories" and "You Are (My Destiny)" (2003) - The London Community Gospel ChoirLondon Community Gospel ChoirThe London Community Gospel Choir is a successful gospel choir located in the United Kingdom.-History:The London Community Gospel Choir was founded in 1982 by the Reverend Bazil Meade with the assistance of Lawrence Johnson, Delroy Powell and John Francis.Initially the idea was for a single concert...
"I Surrender All" (2003) - Courtney PineCourtney PineCourtney Pine CBE is an English jazz musician. At school he studied the clarinet, although he is known primarily for his saxophone playing. Pine is a multi-instrumentalist, also playing the flute, clarinet, bass Clarinet and keyboards...
"When The World Turns Blue" (2003) - Mamayo "The Game" "Born to Love" (2005)
- Hope Collective "Give and Let Live" (2005)
- Duet with Paul Weller "Wanna Be Where You Are" (2005)
- Duet with Jocelyn BrownJocelyn BrownJocelyn Lorette Brown is an American R&B and dance music singer...
"Parting the Waters" (2005) - IncognitoIncognito (band)Incognito is a British band, as well as one of the members of the United Kingdom's acid jazz movement. Their debut album, Jazz Funk, was released in 1981, with thirteen more albums following, the last of which, Transatlantic RPM, was released in 2010....
"Show Me Love" (2005) - IncognitoIncognito (band)Incognito is a British band, as well as one of the members of the United Kingdom's acid jazz movement. Their debut album, Jazz Funk, was released in 1981, with thirteen more albums following, the last of which, Transatlantic RPM, was released in 2010....
"Summer in the City", "Tin Man", "That's the Way of the World" (2006) - Full Flava album Music Is Our Way Of LifeMusic Is Our Way of Life-Credits and personnel:* Chantay Savage - lead vocal* Beverlei Brown - lead vocal* Kelli Sae - lead vocal* Carleen Anderson - lead vocal* Joy Rose - lead vocal* Donna Gardier - lead vocal* Hazel Fernandes - lead vocal* CeCe Peniston - lead vocal...
, Carleen performs lead vocals on a cover of Jean Carn's Was That All It Was. (2007)
External links
- Carleen Anderson discography at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...
- Carleen Anderson artist page at FacebookFacebookFacebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...