Mademoiselle Karen aka Karen Duelund Guastavino is a Danish songwriter, vocalist and musician who has been touring all over Poland with the awarded and top selling band Czeslaw Spiewa.
After long time of touring in Poland and talking on skype with her French boyfriend Karen became "lost in translation", which influenced on her music and inspired her to create the alter ego Mademoiselle Karen.
The result is her debutalbum "ATTENTION" released February 2010. A veritable explosive mixture of various genres, cultures and languages. The atmosphere of intelligent, postmodern cabaret, inspired by French songs, is broken by crazy hip-hop rides on the one hand, and beautiful, sad songs on the other. Mademoiselle Karen swallows all the words she hears, and then sing it all out in French, Danish, Polish and English, as if she wanted to communicate with the whole world at one time. Her clear, strong and characteristic voice falls into memory, and her clever, ironic lyrics treat on both great love and ordinary everyday life with a smile and a little pinch of salt.
On stage, Mademoiselle Karen is full of energy, enthusiasm and commitment, which she passes on the audience in a very positive way. Concerts of this unusual project are intense and unforgettable
experiences.
Mademoiselle Karen has a surprisingly simple message for us: life is strange, but beautiful.
The Danish press wrote :
"She sings in French, her label and manager is Polish and she resembles a little the American actress Charlize Theron. But Karen Duelund Guastavino is really pear Danish. Together with a number of equally Danish playmates she has with "Attention" created a composite and complex album. "Attention! C'est moi qui chante" sounds welcoming from the certain lady, and off she goes with pop, cabaret, jazz, funk, Polish folk music, contemporary composition music and much more. It drifts with odd instruments and odd samples and Karen and company coming on far more ideas than the album has room for. Ultimately, one must surrender to the towering ambition."
(Gaffa - 4/6 stars)
"each song has its own style, its own sound - lively gypsy rock, elegant rap, tango, chanson, cabaret music
The songs "Regarde-moi" and "Ouaf, ouaf" have an immediate hitpotentiale.
We look forward to hear more from Mademoiselle Karen not only in French, Polish or English, but also on her mother tongue."
(JP - 4/6 stars)
