Charlotte Eriksson
Charlotte Eriksson’s Biography
The story of The Glass Child, Charlotte Eriksson, is one of those you usually see on movies. Only 18 years old she left everything she had and knew, family and friends, and moved to London to dedicate her life to her music and art. A vague dream about reaching out with her music became an everlasting journey about fighting for your dreams, self discovery, finding your true purpose and creating something that will mean something, now with over 29,000 dedicated followers and fans with her on her journey through her social sites like Twitter and Tumblr.
Forward four years and she has started her own record label Broken Glass Records, released 5 EPs, released her critically acclaimed debut full-length ‘I’d Like To Remain A Mystery’ in February 2013, had her single ”I Will Lead You Home” reaching #2 on the Swedish Itunes-chart, was names Breakthrough Indie Artist Of The Year by Lemonade Magazine, and been played on major radio such as BBC6 (UK), Sveriges Radio (Sweden) and 3FM (Netherlands). In April 2013 she also independently published her first book“Empty Roads and Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps”, telling the story about leaving, searching and going after your dream. The book was beautifully received and has been widely praised both by her fanbase and by a new literary crowd of writers and readers.
Charlotte is a wandering soul and after spending a year in England with nothing but a guitar and a will to search for something more, playing wherever she could play and crashing at fans’ floors, she has now spent a year in Berlin, Germany. A year of wandering, growing and rediscovering in the new city resulted in what is slowly becoming the biggest journey and achievement of her life so far; a new album, created and funded together with her dedicated following through PledgeMusic. Her Pledge Music Campaign (launched June, 2014) reached 100% within four hours, and after 40 days ended at 249% funded.
“It’s bigger this time. I’m wiser this time. This is not about the final physical product, like a CD. This is about the impact those songs can have inside someone. My mission is to seek those who need to hear those words and melodies and stories, and if I can touch one soul out there and make them feel like they belong, then I will be happy.”
The new album ”I Must Be Gone And Live, Or Stay And Die” will be released in October 2014, and the first single off the album,”The Fall”, will be out worldwide September 2nd.
”I wanted to turn my life into my art. My very existence into a poem. This is my story – it’s been a beautiful fight. It still is.”
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"Talented songwriter, composer and author The Glass Child, a 22 year old artist in the truest sense of the word who has produced an album with a creativity and depth we rarely see from musicians until well after the mid-life crisis, rehab and 3 broken marriages. Teaming with intelligent lyrics and well thought-out music, I’d like to remain a mystery, is an album many writers wait their whole lives to put together." - http://www.theblackflag.co.uk/2013/02/03/review-interview-glass-child/#
" Alternative-pop born of a woman with the mind of a poet singing fragile musings with the voice of a once wounded angel who has something significant to say." - http://anindieeducation.blogspot.co.uk/
" Take a look now at someone who’s taken a different route to get to the mainstream and someone who’s going to shatter the notion that success is all about ‘industry’ or watered-down throwaway music. The Glass Child has broken through with some music of real depth for her fans to keep. This is how music is going to sound good again. ‘Ghost’s’ shows the makings of an icon, I believe. ” - Musicfeeds.com.au
“..she tears down walls with her music, using starkly honest lyrics and intense vocal chops to draw her listeners in and turn them inside out” - whatstheruckus.com
“There’s an ethereal beauty to Charlotte’s vocals that speaks straight from the heart. She knows how to make every word count, how to tear the emotion from every syllable.” - totallyvivid.com
“ The kind of voice that plays with your emotions and the type of lyrics that seem so similar to you, it’s almost scary. With brilliant music to match her voice and character, The Glass Child is an artist to look out for.” -snapshotsymphony.tumblr.com/
“Once in a while you stumble across an artist you have never heard of before and they just blow you away.” - Roomthirteen.com