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Gunhild Carling was born in Sweden in 1975. She’s a Swedish jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist. Gunhild plays trombone, bagpipes, trumpet, recorder, string instruments (such as banjo, ukulele and harp), and will often showcase all of her skills in one song, sometimes casually breaking into a tap dance or singing. Carling competed as a celebrity dancer in Let’s Dance 2014 on TV4, being placed third.
In 2013, she performed with her ‘Carling Big Band’ at the Royal Palace in Stockholm in the celebration of King Carl XVI Gustaf’s Ruby Jubilee. In 2016, Carling performed at King Carl XVI Gustaf’s 70th birthday celebration. She was recently featured as a singer and multi-instrumentalist in several of Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox’s adaptations of pop songs, which i
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Gunhild Carling grew up in a musically family in Sweden. Father Hans Cooling (also known as king of trad jazz) trumpet, mother Aina banjo. Brother Max Carling (clarinet, violin, saxophone) multi talented Juggler, rope dancer, composer, arranger, Sister Gerd piano, trombone, saxes, dance acrobatics composing, Ulf drums, dance, trumpet, vocal
1982 was first consert at Swing inn in Malmo (Jazz Festival)
1984 First Album (LP) ” I’ve lost my heart in Dixieland” (Phontastic) Recorded by Gert Palmcrantz.
1985 Carling Family participated in several TV Shows in Sweden and Abroad. Swedish TV-programs: Nygammalt, Affären Ramel, Café Sundsvall, Vi i femman
Polish TV
Carling Family played at several Jazz festivals Molde Jazz (Norge), Zlota Tarka (Warszawa), Askersund, Skeppsholmen och Oslo.
1985 Gunhild recieved Louis Armstrong Award.
1986 Second LP released Phontastic
1988 The New Carling Family with Jazz, Swing and a whole lot of Vauddeville has its premiere.
Jazz festivals and Herräng Dance Camp. Carlings has always been a big name
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Gunhild Carling: Living the Jazz Life
For some musicians, jazz is the music they play but for multi-talented Gunhild Carling, jazz is her life. She grew up surrounded by it and now her children are talented musicians in their own right.
Carling now has performed and led several of her own bands including Gunhild Carling and the Carling Big Band. Right now she’s performing several live concerts a week over social media including her Carling Darlings. She’s recorded several CDs, her first in 1984 with her family called I’ve Lost My Heart In Dixieland and has continually put out albums including the recent Harlem Joy in 2015.
Carling’s parents were accomplished musicians in their own right. Her father, Hans Carling, was a trumpet legend in Sweden, where Carling was born and raised, and her mother, trained as a classical violinist, picked up the banjo. Carling remembers playing her first instrument, the drum, where she could decently hold at beat, in her parent’s Friday night performances at the age of four. It’s her earliest memory. At six, she learned to play recorder and
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