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Carolina is born in Frankfurt, Germany daughter of a german mother filmmaker and italian father architect. She grows up and gravitates around the artistic environments of Rome, Berlin, NYC and Boston, where she graduates at Berklee College of Music in performance and jazz composition. While living in Boston and afterwards in NYC she soon establishes herself as a highly respected musical leader and with her first band “Red in Black” she playes with musicians such as Kurt Rosenwinkel, Scott Kinsey, Yorai Oron, Dan Rieser, Jim Black, Matthew Garrison, Bruce Arkin and later Marko Djordjevic, Peter Adams, Kevin Bruce Harris, Marvin Sewell and many more. She has performed in major jazz clubs in Boston as well as in NYC, including a steady gig at the Zinc Bar, where she has been their first artist ever. In Italy she formes a new quintet with  top musicians such as Javier Girotto, Alex Gwis, Marco Siniscalco and the outstanding grammy winner drummer Horacio “el Negro” Hernandez  and, playing extensively, she starts developing  the practice of performing with their faces painted.. Later on that led to her still ongoing huge project “ O.M.P” ( Original Music Paint) extending the band to a 10-et playing with Davide Pettirossi, who also becomes the producer of all 3 cd’s, Alex Gwis, Peter de Girolamo, Marco Siniscalco, Pierpaolo Ranieri, Aldo Bassi, Giancarlo Ciminelli, Marcello Allulli, Gianni Savelli, Roberto Schiano, Enzo de Rosa, Désirée Petrocchi, Cristiana Polegri, Simona Rizzi. After their first debut album “O.M.P” and extensive touring, O.M.P caught the attention, from both audience and critic. After years of traveling finally a double cd “ Flowers of the Deeper Soil” with special guests Robin Eubanks and the new guitar sensation Kurt Rosenwinkel. On october 5th 2014 the video “Silence Score” launches the album release! So far it has won an Award of Recognition at the Accolade Global Film Competition, has been officially selected for live screening at the Williamsburg International Film Festival in NYC and it has earned 2nd prize at the International Film Festival in Ibiza. Vocalist, actress, dancer, pianist, author of lyrics, music and all arrangements Carolina has been defined a “ musical architect”. Her voice is soulful, warm and sinuous but also dramatic and ironically irreverent. Her music is hard to classify; some attempts have been crossover, contemporary, electric jazz, avantgarde funk with captivating grooves and intriguing melodies enhanced by the charisma and personality of Carolina. It is “Fusion” to be intended though in the most authentic and radical sense of the term, namely as an artistic shynthesis of a polyglot creativity that incorporates naturally the concept of contamination, blending a variety of styles ranging from Jazz to Funk, Gospel to Flamenco, Rap to Scat, Instrumental to Songwriting. The cultural and musical cosmopolitism is also evident in the lyrics: linguistic collages in English, German, Italian, French and Spanish, gifted with passional strenght of commitment. Finally, reutilizing past excursions in the realm of Theater and Dance, Carolina surpasses the traditional concert format to embrace the one of a show that delivers words and music in a coloured and playful fashion.