Storytelling + piano = true!
Caroline Leander – pianist, singer, composer and lyricist
The piano is my oldest friend and has kept me company throughout my years as a freelance musician and songwriter. The encounter between melody and lyrics is always exciting, something I continue to explore, both as a soloist and in my collaborations.
2025 will offer several live-performances with different constellations. Check the calendar for all upcoming events!
And a new single is on it’s way – Last Light will be released this winter 🙂
HEM UTAN ADRESS – (Home without address) EP
to work on music and text writing.
The thoughts that emerged – those of the residents, the staff and my own – form the basis of my new EP. Listen here!
Read more about the project and the music here. (In Swedish)
Listen to an interview and live music at P4 Kristianstad, and a shorter reportage from P4 Malmö.
Read the review (in Swedish) from Opulens, and MånssonsKultur.
Last year, I was a guest at the Stora Likarättsgala at Malmö Arena, where I performed parts of the material live.
Previous solo albums
My previous solo album “Melting Into Happiness” was well received by the press and was nominated to the Golden Record in the review OJ.
Check out some reviews here!
The compositions have a multi-faceted and deeper setting thanks to my creative musicians Anders Lorentzi bass, Bo Håkanson drums / percussion and Peter Tegnér guitar, who shape and recreate the music in a fantastic way! Also the guests Vindla String Quartet, harmonica player Filip Jers, Jens and Petter Lindgård (trombone and trumpet) from Timbuktu’s backing band Damn! add extra colour to the production.
The recordings were made in Gula Studion in Malmoe, in creative collaboration with David Carlsson, who with his playful instinct has picked out the best in my music.
Photographer Peggy Eklöf has made two videos, watch them here:
My earlier album Under My Heart, also got many positive reviews, and I received a scholarship from SKAP (Swedish Composers of Popular Music) on the ground:
“Our ensemble makes music that strolls in a land inhabited by
dreamy Californian singer-songwriters, French entertainers
and wonderful Scanian nymphs with pockets filled with jazz.
With gentle, floating tones and subtle Scandinavian
texts, her music lifts us, carries us away and brings us home again.”
