Draft:Eva Carboni



Eva Carboni, is a rock-blues singer and songwriter born on the Italian island of Sardinia. She studied at the Vocal Power Academy in Los Angeles, graduating in singing with the renowned vocal coach Elisabeth Howard. The first years after graduation she was a vocal coach in Italy. In 2017 she began her collaboration with the British producer and songwriter Andy Littlewood and his label Mad Ears Productions, being a guest vocalist on Mick Simpson's album 'Black Rain' on 'River of Life', Eva's style has garnered international attention, with her albums 'Italia Square' and 'Smoke and Mirrors', along with numerous singles and the EP 'In The Name of The Blues', captivating audiences with their blend of blues, rock, and jazz. Notable achievements for her song 'Love Me Tonight'. Her albums includes contributions by a host of British musician's including Mick Simpson, Dave Hunt, Andrius Linsdell, Pete Nelson, and Bob Steves and the Italian Giovanni Bruno.

Career
Eva Carboni released her first 14-track album 'Italia Square' in 2019, produced by Andy Littlewood. Eva recorded songs like the blues ballad 'Love me Tonight', written by Mick Simpson and Andy Littlewood, that is author or co-author of all Eva’s songs, such as 'Dark Clouds' with a smoky taste Jazzy-blues and 'Good Times' with a 50s flavour, the rock anthem "You Don’t Know" and 'Forever Long', rock ballad with an Irish taste,'The Witching Hour' and 'New Day Calling', 'Quit while I’m Ahead', 'A women Scorned', 'Wages of Sin', 'Italia Square', 'Primrose Path', 'Sail on Bye', 'New York City Lights'. Rock, blues, jazz, gospel, many flavors, different scenarios connected by the shades of color of Eva’s voice. Eva Carboni returns in December 2019 with her new gospel influenced 5-track EP, 'Wrong Turn'. This limited edition CD also includes 'Unfinished Business', Turning My Back On The Blues', 'River of Life', and 'Forever Long (Orchestral Mix)'. Her second album, 'Smoke and Mirrors' was released in 2022. It contains 12 tracks signed by Andy Littlewood including one written by Eva along with Andy, 'That Night', her official debut as a songwriter. The album, in which Andy Littlewood as always also contributes in with guitars, keyboards, bass, and backing vocals, starts immediately with a solid rock song 'Building a Wall', where the voice of Eva fully reveal her part of rock soul, thumping bass and scorching guitar lines. 'Smoke and Mirrors' is a track cleverly sewn on her by her producer. In the blues ballad 'Call My Name', once again with the guitar of Mick Simpson, Andy Littlewood decided to release an extended mix of 7 minutes outside the album. Her first song as a published songwriter, written with Andy Littlewood, 'That Night' is a ballad steeped in mysticism where the voice sounds intensely immersed in the story of a confused soul who gets lost and then finds the path. The stylized voice meets the blues harmonica of Dave Hunt in "Bad Blood", then "Gonna Find a Way" and 'The Winter of '51' where Eva tells a story of another time with Andy Littlewood on the piano, she gets emotional as if she really lived that moment all emphasized by the melancholy sound of piano and guitar. In "Crossed a Line" Eva guests Giovanni Bruno who unleashes himself in a heavy assault of guitar soaked wah-wah from arena. The atmosphere changes in the jazzy 'Sweet Mystery' and 'Midnight Blue' accompanied by the shrill guitar of Andy Littlewood, or 'Another Door Closes' from the color of the fifties and the meditative journey of 'Going Back Home'.

Greg "Bluesdog" Szalony writes in Blues Blast: “Thankfully her accent is minor, causing a few words to pass your ears, but not biggie. Her voice is so strong and sexy that you hardly notice".

While working on the new album, some other singles were released, including, in December 2023, 'The Magic' written by Eva and Andy. It is a motivational song, a hymn to the search for one’s own identity and inner strength, in search of one’s own essence, imbued with the desire to free oneself from the burdens and conditioning of the past. The EP 'In The Name of The Blues' comes out in early 2024 and is a combination in 6 tracks of rock and blues, 'In the Name of the Blues', classic blues story of love disappointment accompanied by alcohol and guitar, 'The South Wind Blows' another slow blues song by Andy Littlewood and Eva, with the typical atmosphere that their artistic collaboration always manages to create. The tones get rock with 'Stony Ground', and 'That Devil Man' another hot story in a rock-blues key. The EP brings together two other songs that were previously released as singles, the rebellious 'Independence Street' and the epic rock ballad 'We Come Alive' where Eva’s voice meets again the guitar of Mick Simpson.

Over the past few years she has performed with musician's such as Derek Wilson, Mario Schilliro (Zucchero Fornaciari), Mick Simpson and Vic Martin (Gary Moore) , and she also sung with artists like Buddy Guy, Marco Mendoza, Roy Rogers, Sergio Caputo .

Discography
{| class="wikitable" !Year !Album !Producer !Label !Notes
 * 2017
 * Black Rain*
 * Andy Littlewood
 * Mad Ears Productions
 * *Mick Simpson's album guest singer on “River of Life”
 * 2019
 * Italia Square
 * Andy Littlewood
 * Mad Ears Productions
 * 2019
 * Wrong Turn
 * Andy Littlewood
 * Mad Ears Productions
 * 2022
 * Smoke and Mirrors
 * Andy Littlewood
 * Mad Ears Productions
 * 2023
 * The Magic*
 * Andy Littlewood
 * Mad Ears Productions
 * Single track
 * 2024
 * In The Name of The Blues
 * Andy Littlewood
 * Mad Ears Productions
 * The Magic*
 * Andy Littlewood
 * Mad Ears Productions
 * Single track
 * 2024
 * In The Name of The Blues
 * Andy Littlewood
 * Mad Ears Productions
 * Mad Ears Productions