Liane Carroll – Straight From The Heart
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Few singers can channel the levels of sadness and soul that Liane Carrol c an, indeed, everything she sings courses with chill-inducing emotion.
Back with a starkly beautiful new album, Ballads, the singer and pianist reveals to Peter Quinn that personal vulnerability can become an artist’s greatest strength
“I’m a lot happier since the last time I saw you,” Liane Carroll tells me as we tuck into our main course. We’re in Pizza Express next to Broadcasting House, where later in the afternoon Liane is appearing as a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section. “Last March I decided to do something about it and got a course of treatment for my depression,” she continues. “And I’m a different person – although I’m not. I was really scared that it would flatten me out but it hasn’t at all. I still get that [Liane mimes an up and down motion with her hands] but it’s not up and down like a mountain range, it’s just a couple of little hills, which I’m really grateful for. The first thing I noticed, apart from actually not feeling despair, was that I wouldn’t cry at films that I would normally cry at. And I thought, ‘oh shit’. But with the music it just didn’t make any difference, emotionally.”
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