New Discovery: Carl Beluga and His Orchestra

by Lara on May 22nd, 2008

As I’ve mentioned several times before, I’m digging this MySpace thing for music. I’ve recently discovered a number of crooners I’ve labeled here on the site as “Not Yet Famous”, however that’s not entirely true. The fact is that they’re not yet famous HERE in the United States. Today’s feature hails from Sweden, and pardon me for saying so but he’s really gorgeous!

Check him out after the jump…

Photo: Carl Beluga (used with permission)

I invite you to visit Carl Beluga and his orchestra on MySpace or at his official website.

In Carl’s words:

After a decade of rehearsing, recording, touring, cursing & drinking with a couple of rockbands, though lots of laughs and good memories, somehow it never seemed satisfactory enough. Tired and somewhat disillusioned I decided to fulfill a lifelong dream of mine - to make a swinging, stomping & full blowing big band record!

I grew up in a home full of music and old time classics such as Elvis, Sinatra, Armstrong to mention a few, and my heroes were always writers like Irving Berlin, Gerschwin and Cole Porter. The way they put words and music together seemed like magic to me, and when you add the arrangers, musicians and singers - well that’s just heaven. I wanted to live and breath in that elusive, I guess to some hokey & corny, but to me always beautiful, dreamland of romance & evergreens. It just had a certain feel to it that I always loved, so that was my inspiration and aspiration.

So I started writing songs and all the scores, a few years and obstacles later, mainly financial, with a little help from my friends, I put the band together and recently recorded about 20 songs under the working title “Starswinger”. Here are a few tracks that may or may not be on the final album, please listen and make a comment or two, if you’re anything like me I think you’ll enjoy it!

And of course, what feature would be complete without an mp3? Not any here on Crooner Culture, that’s for sure! :)

I present for your listening pleasure, Carl Beluga and his orchestra, and “I’ve Got To Move On” (Somewhat eerily appropriate for me personally right now!)