– …at the last year! –
One year with my new management (Eleftherios Mavros). It’s time for a little review.
You were certainly surprised, that there were so little news about me in the last year. The reason for this is that I had to make decisions that greatly affect my musical career. After signing the management contract, further cooperation was rejected by my former producer. The separation between her, her music label and me was inevitable. The result was that I simply don’t exist anymore in everything that is influenced in the German country scene in any way by her or her husband.
There are radio DJs that no longer play my music, so I also disappeared from the “German Country Music Airplay Charts” (© husband of my former producer).
There are people that make an effort to make my musical life miserable. They paid money to hurt me. One day after my press release with regard to my own music label, different variations of domains of the original name idea “All American Music” were purchased. On all of these domains, a visitor will be forwarded to a country site which still exists to this day.
So much for the negative aspects of the past year. This, however, does not stop me, it only makes me stronger. Fortunately, the positive aspects dominate significantly. Sometimes you have to walk a difficult path to make things happen that were urgently needed.
In recent years, before my time in new management, I made many things, because it was simply dictated to me, or I couldn’t take influence. I often had the feeling of being a tool to realize the music of other people.
This changed with the cooperation with Eleftherios Mavros. He encouraged me to use my musical possibilities and show my passion and emotions in music. I had the chance to work with famous national and international songwriters to develop songs that reflect my own image of country music.
Unfortunately, you have to wait a long time on my new album “Shades Of Love”. Originally, its release was planned for spring, but there are so many people involved in this production, who bring their ideas, that the release may have wait until autumn. Quality takes its time. As you already know, there will be a duet with Billy Yates, a Grammy-winning artist from Nashville, on the album. Continue to Boo Ray, a very talented artist from Nashville. He asked to turn his song “Boots & Blue Jeans” into a duet version with him. The solo version of his song is already represented in famous Americana charts. I recorded most of the songs from my new album in a studio in Nashville, with musicians, whose musicality is really amazing. I can’t wait to present to you the “new” Jolina Carl. But you have to wait a little while. This time, it has to be perfect.
Eleftherios Mavros did a good job. He was able to convince a sponsor into funding the complete production of the album. I’d like to introduce this sponsor in detail at a later date, stay tuned!
The collaboration with companies, who will give me their support in the future, was made possible by my manager. YAMAHA music Europe GmbH already sent me a 6-string APX 1000 Pearl White. I will get a 12-string model in the near future. For the promotion campaign of the new album “Shades Of Love”, VESPA Düsseldorf gladly agreed to provide some Vespa sport scooter S50 with my logo, which can be found around my performances. The stickers were generously done by sht Quadrath. VESPA Düsseldorf also provided numerous prices for this promotion campaign. At this point, I would like to thank most warmly for the generous support by these companies.
I would also like to thank companies that put their trust in me and have supported me for a long time. This includes Karl Höfner GmbH & Co. KG, which has been providing me with their guitars for years. I’m getting my microphones from beyerdynamic GmbH & Co. KG. My 12-string Höfner guitar was equipped by Shadow Electronics with a SH PFA-C PanaFlex Wireless System to be more mobile onstage. Thank you for many years of support and the confidence to these companies.
You see, sometimes you just have to let changes happen to get on the right path. I’m looking forward to what future has plannned for me. I’m on my way! Stay tuned for a “new” Jolina Carl.