SInger and songwriter, producer and frontman for Dean Allen Foyd band from Stockholm, Sweden.

Carl Jonas is a Swedish singer-songwriter, living in Stockholm. At its heart, his music is generated from a joy driven desire to bring the listener into a greater resonance with our shared essential nature. As just about any and every experience can be used as a springboard into this resonance his songs attempts to shine light on this matter through exploring and expressing the human experience as it is unfolds within his own life. His songs are the fruits of a continuously unfolding expression that broke through on a starlight evening on the 6th of January, 2007.

Ebo Krdum is a Sudanese-Swedish self-taught singer, guitarist, artist and activist. He creates contemporary political afro-blues music rooted in several musical traditions around the sub-Saharan area. Ebo sings in many different languages and his lyrics contains topics such as justice, equality, diversity and liberty. 

When Ebo was only six years old he discovered that he could sing and drum and he started entertaining people in his village, sometimes getting paid with a small penny or sweets. At the age of thirteen he built his own guitar and learned how to play listening to his father’s radio and the only black-white TV in the village, where he got to hear artists such as Ali Farka Touré and Boubacar Traoré.

When the war started in Darfur in 2003 Ebo became an important voice for the peaceful revolution against the corrupt and violent regime. Beside his musical participation in the situation he was active in a huge activism for the opposition that aimed to overthrow the dictatorship in Sudan, which also became the reason why he was forced to flee the country. Ebo is now based in Sweden, where he has established himself as one of the most prominent world music acts on the music scene.

His song Revolution Call is the first single from the upcoming full-length album ' Diversity ' in 2021, where he in addition to combining Scandinavian folk music with afro-blues and afrobeat sings in eight different languages, in his collaboration with the record label Supertraditional.

Each KAROO performance is a special moment, an encounter of diversity, where together with our public we embark on a journey through different traditions, languages, rhythms, story telling from past and modern life challenges, power of community, of love, of respect, the power of connecting with others in everyday life, 
we travel through a range of emotions, and all mixed with with a lot of joy and good vibes. 

”When we are on stage, we have fun, is something that comes naturally … we want to share it with people because we cant just keep it to ourselves, we want our public to take our message home to their families and friends.

ABDOU CISSOKHO, ”I am a singer and kora player coming from a traditional griot family, from Ziguinchir, Casamanse Senegal, where music and story telling as been passed over many generations, as a tool to bring awareness to our communities, and contribute for a more sustainable and loving world. I have the honour and responsibility to continue this mission, now reaching out to other communities and cultures around the world. With Karoo project, griot music meets Swedish Folk and Portuguese Fado to create a unique experience. 
I want to honnor my people through my lyrics, and it is a pleasure for me sing in Mandinka and Wolof, and see the people in other countries enjoying it, I want to share it with the whole world. At the same time is also beautiful to expose people in my country to other cultures represented in Karoo, including the Swedish Folk and Portuguese Fado”.

SOLBRITT, ”I met Abdou in Senegal back in 2010 when I was a part of a music exchange project between young musicians. I then realised that Abdou and his brothers already lived in Sweden and when we all came back his brother Lamine invited me to play with them on shows. Years later I never stopped playing with Abdou in different projects and now we strive to develop Karoo together. I love how the Scandinavian sound from the violin connects so well with the west African kora and since I’ve played so much with Abdou we know each others musical language very well. For me Karoo is a way to develop our own sound and songwriting to another level and also bringing Andrés influences from his background in to it.”

ANDRÉ ”while being a host of many world music Jams in Stockholm some years back, I had the opportunity to meet many great musicians, including Abdou. We have  connected very well from the beginning, became good friends and we love creating and playing music together. Through Abdou I also met Solbritt and since then we have been co-creating what today is Karoo’s sound. I look forward to sharing the outcome of these encounters of cultures, our message to all over the world.”

For Irina Röjas and André Nobre, who together form Lua Mantras, the mantra song has a direct entrance to our hearts and the feeling of full divine presence. The mantra can be sung when we want to attract helping energies that strengthen and guide us during different phases of life. It is used as a means to get in touch with ourselves and our inner wisdom. Through Lua Mantras, Irina and André want to invite us to this very room in our heart, inner wisdom and presence.

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