Stockholm
Singer-Songwriter

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BIOGRAPHY

I live in Sweden, together with my partner, Mike, and our twin daughters My & Isabel who is 6 years.
I work in the restaurant, but knows now that it is time to focus on music full.
Give it a fair chance!

Song writing began at 14 years of age, it was when I began to have something to write about. When I was 19 years, I went Multimedia education, where I had the opportunity to record my first demo with 15 songs.

Song writing continued and I started to send my demo discs to different record companies.
But since I did not have any contacts in the industry, the disks never reach the right person.

But I found another route, I began collecting reviews and the opinions from other media. I sent my songs to all kinds of different races / journals / producers.
I started to get feedback, especially from the U.S., BUT, they all wanted a complete full-cd .. "A cherry-pick".

2005, I had contact with a studio in Gothenburg (Karl Güner)
I decided to record 3 songs in real quality.
I put the songs on my Sonicbids.com and Myspace and got in touch with Lee Gibson in Nashville!

2006 I went there for the recording of 3 songs and was honored to record with LeAnn Rimes previous band, including bassist Victor Brodén.

2007 I met Lars E Carlsson, he introduced me to a Danish songwriter, Poul Vinther, who had a record company .. Poul and his colleagues were united, they would bet on me and my music.

2008, the disc is now ready and it shows a broad side of me as a songwriter.

The old question:
What makes me interesting and unique?

The name of the disc, "The Girl Next Door", is cleanly.
I am not odd or strange, no blue hair
or break style.
I keep my feet on the ground and know what I want.
People feel at home with me and my lyrics,
it's everyday things and feelings that we all go through.

I concern and can be compared, for the "common human" side.
It may in itself be seen as quite odd today ..

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Pop, Alternative Rock

Contact

Booking: www.vinthermusic.dk

P.R.O.

OTHER

INSTRUMENTS

piano

INFLUENCES

Everything that makes me stop, react or just an ordinary day.

DAY JOB

season restaurant/medium

I AM INTERESTED IN

in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal
in getting a publishing deal

I WRITE:

It's my second job

I Also Write:
by myself
with others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

experience >

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Review of Star Polish Artist, Joseph Mccomb: Carina Schutz So you see a pretty girl from Sweden on an artist page and you think, OK, she’s probably a balladeer like Anna Nalick or a dance-pop tartlet like Robyn -- but then you scroll down her page and see that her musical admirations include Metallica and Creed. Huh?!? On listening, though, order is restored: She’s indeed a AAA balladeer, with material that goes down easy, like “Still Around,” which could get play immediately on Adult Contemporary and Adult Top 40 stations. The soft, understated “There’s a Cold Wind Blowing” has a cool elegance that fans of Portishead or Dido will appreciate. It’s a major standout and should be her calling card. “Losing Ground” is a touch less memorable but still a pleasing listen. Schütz’s material is ready to shop around for a label deal, if that’s what she wants: Her voice is rendered perfectly, the backing tracks are intelligently and softly produced, and the songs themselves have earworm potential and use lyrics that are accessible yet not cliché-riddled. A near complete package. Feedback • Brent Harvey - Hollywood Music Awards, USA • Sylvia Massy Shivy - www.radiostarstudios.com, USA • Ian Cole - unsigned, UK • A & R department of Artist Blast, UK • Martin Smith - Sunrise, UK • Dale Kawashima - Songwriter Universe, USA • Andrew Reeve - Aardvark Music Ltd., UK • Bitte Assarmo – Labyrinth, Sweden • Calle Kindbom - Marianne Grammofon AB, Sweden • Rockers Magazin, Sweden ******************************** Awards • 2 times: Billboard World Song Writing Contest - Top500 • Billboard W.S.C - Top1500 • 2 times: Best Song of the month - SongRamp.com / USA • American Songwriter Magazine • Music Top - Radio Dalarna, P4, Sweden

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Q&A: Bright Eyes

After a brief stint as a solo artist, Conor Oberst has revived Bright Eyes to release The People’s Key, an album that deals with the nature of time, spirituality, and human existence. Also, it’s Rastafarian friendly.

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Jessica Lea Mayfield: Look At Miss Ohio

“Things are starting to get weird.”

Jessica Lea Mayfield, whose Nonesuch Records debut Tell Me is in stores now, is on the phone from her home in Ohio and we’re having a good laugh over her recent success. It’s beer o’clock on both ends of the phone, the last interview in a long week of talking to complete strangers for the two of us.

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....