Caroline Chevin
{{short description|Swiss soul singer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}}
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| birth_place = Weggis, Switzerland
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| genre = Soul
| occupation = Singer-songwriter
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| label = Phonag, Sony Music
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Caroline Chevin (born 28 June 1974) is a Swiss soul singer.
Career
Chevin began her full-time music career in 2002; previously, she worked part-time in a bank.{{cite news |last1=Haehl |first1=Mathias |title=Wie die Weggiser Sängerin Caroline Chevin ihre grosse Liebe verlor |url=https://www.zentralplus.ch/de/news/regionalesleben/5576213/Wie-die-Weggiser-S%C3%A4ngerin-Caroline-Chevin-ihre-grosse-Liebe-verlor.htm |access-date=3 January 2019 |work=Zentralplus |date=2 September 2018}} Her first solo album, Feel Real, was released in 2008 by record label Phonag. Back in the Days, her second album, was released by Nation Music in 2010; the eponymous single from that album remained in the Swiss Airplay Charts for eighty weeks. In March 2011, Caroline Chevin was awarded the Swiss Music Award for Best Breaking Act.{{cite web|title=Caroline Chevin gewinnt Swiss Music Award|publisher=Schwyzkultur.ch|url=http://www.schwyzkultur.ch/nachrichten/caroline-chevin-gewinnt-swiss-music-award-2491.html|url-status=dead|access-date=7 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110306040135/http://www.schwyzkultur.ch/nachrichten/caroline-chevin-gewinnt-swiss-music-award-2491.html#|archive-date=6 March 2011|date=4 March 2011}}
Subsequently, Chevin signed with Sony Music, which released her third solo album Hey World on 15 February 2013, The 13 songs were written by Chevin in 2012 together with songwriter Sékou Neblett (Freundeskreis, Joy Denalane) and producer Philipp Schweidler (Seven, Marc Sway).{{cite web|title=DIE LIEBE ZUR MUSIK TREIBT MICH AN|publisher=Trendmagazin.ch|url=http://www.trendmagazin.ch/maerz-2013/trend-journal/caroline-chevin|access-date=7 March 2013|date=28 February 2013}}
Personal life
Chevin met television presenter Greg Boyed in 2014 while she was visiting New Zealand, and they married in Switzerland later that year.{{cite news |title=The Diary: Swiss entertainer steals TV presenter's heart |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11293972 |access-date=22 August 2018 |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=16 July 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180822042209/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11293972# |archive-date=22 August 2018 |url-status=live }} Their son Kian Iraia Cassidy was born in 2015.{{cite news |last1=Land |first1=Emma |title=TVNZ presenter Greg Boyed has died suddenly in Switzerland |url=https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/tv/tvnz-presenter-greg-boyed-has-died-38805 |access-date=22 August 2018 |work=Now to Love |date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180822042946/https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/tv/tvnz-presenter-greg-boyed-has-died-38805# |archive-date=22 August 2018 |url-status=live }} Boyed committed suicide while on a family holiday in Switzerland on 20 August 2018.{{Cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/106466553/tvnz-news-anchor-greg-boyed-has-died|title=TVNZ news anchor Greg Boyed has died|website=Stuff|language=en|access-date=2018-08-21}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/parenting/family/renee-wright-reflects-on-2018-plans-for-2019-40185|title=Renee Wright reflects on 2018 and reveals what's in store for 2019|work=New Zealand Woman's Weekly|language=en|access-date=8 January 2019}}
Discography
- 2008: Feel Real (Phonag)
- 2010: Back in the Days (Nation Music)
- 2013: Hey World (Sony Music)
- 2020: Enjoy the Ride (Chevin Music)
- 2022: Note to Self (Chevin Music)
References
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External links
- {{Official website}}
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