Carmen Consuls is one of the detections of the rock Italian of these years. The particularitity of its voice and the energy of its songs have endured it tax to the general attention, while its personage, coolness and anticonventional, it has entered endured in the heart of the new generations of lovers of the rock. Been born to Catania in 1974, the Carmen small begins to play the guitar already electrical worker to 9 years, to 14 is exhibited with one cover band of rock-blues, the Moon Dog' s Party. Just during a concert of the Moon Dog' s Party, Carmen Consuls comes noticed from Francisco Virlinzi, producer and holder of a label in that moment much popular one to Catania, the Cyclope Records. Virlinzi decides to follow of carriera.Nel the Carmen meantime is moved to Rome, where it puts in feet an other blues band and remains some year to play and to write songs. When, in the ' 94, it returns to Catania, it is introduced to its producer with the material destined to end on "Two words", its album of debut. For that Carmen disc it records 22 songs for guitar and voice, putting endured in evidence that natural timbrica and a interpretativo style that its

cteristics will become. The album, recorded to the Cyclope Studios of Catania, comes preceded from the participation to the Festival di Sanremo of the ' 96, with "plastic Love", brano signed from Consuls in brace with Mario Come. To make rubble in the public, like in the attache's to the jobs, that one, equally important is not only the value of the song neither, of its interpretation: Carmen hits also for its aggressive and fragile aspect al same time, and for one personality that hole the screen. In the ' 96 Carmen Consuls consolidates the happened one with long tournée in the main Italian cities and participates to important manifestations (Concert of 1° the May, Max Generation, Sonoria, Recanati Prize, Tenco Prize), moving public thanks to the energy and the passion of its performances. In some cases, it introduces already of the new songs, like "For nothing tired" that will go to make part of its second job. To demonstrate of the versatilità, in that year it exits also I pay to Battiato Franc, that it sees Carmen to interpret, with its unmistakable style, one of the struggenti brani of the sicialian composer, "the animal". The ' 97 are opened with the return to Sanremo with a new brano: "Confused and happy". E' one new ventata of energy, that it puts in extension the force and the determination of the rocker sicialian. The brano, from the sound scarno and electrical worker, is the best presentation of the new album, "Confused and happy", a title it that it will become in short one of the slogan of the year. The album confirmation the talent of Carmen introducing it in one garment more electrical worker and ` sporca' regarding that one of the year before: between the songs they hit the sign "Venere", "the beauty of the things", "Blunotte", "Until the last one", but in a generalized manner it is the climate of the disc to convince and to be strange. New tour an Italian one gives to Carmen the definitive consacrazione. In the meantime other songs, tried during the tests with its group are been born. Therefore the sicialian cantautrice is closed for three months in a house to the doors of Catania and the recordings follow fast. E' the prelude to the escape of the new album, "Medium isterica", dragged from the single &qu

are opened with the return to Sanremo with a new brano: "Confused and happy". E' one new ventata of energy, that it puts in extension the force and the determination of the rocker sicialian. The brano, from the sound scarno and electrical worker, is the best presentation of the new album, "Confused and happy", a title it that it will become in short one of the slogan of the year. The album confirmation the talent of Carmen introducing it in one garment more electrical worker and ` sporca' regarding that one of the year before: between the songs they hit the sign "Venere", "the beauty of the things", "Blunotte", "Until the last one", but in a generalized manner it is the climate of the disc to convince and to be strange. New tour an Italian one gives to Carmen the definitive consacrazione. In the meantime other songs, tried during the tests with its group are been born. Therefore the sicialian cantautrice is closed for three months in a house to the doors of Catania and the recordings follow fast. E' the prelude to the escape of the new album, "Medium isterica", dragged from the single "Besame Giuda". "E' a title it that it speaks already about women - explains the cantautrice - because we women are subordinates at least a time al month to a week of hormonal lack of balance, that he brings disturbs dal nervous point of view... After to have played beyond 100 dates with the band, the greater part of pieces is been born during the tour, thanks to the enthusiasm that the public transmitted to me. When I saw them to dance, it came wants to make to me of the brani still more powerful, nearly punk. We have worked a lot on the rhythms, on the times, siccome are felt a lot to me fragmented, disintegrated, I felt that the four quarters did not describe my equilibrium completely. I had need of uneven times, that they reflected my state of mind, often broken, broken, full of things that have distracted to me from the great joys and the great pains ". The result is cocktail of scratching energy, witnesses and limpid melodie. To leave from January ' 99, Carmen Consuls returns in tournée with to its inseparable group, formed from Roccaforte Maximum to the guitar, Leif Searcy on drums, Enzo Ruggiero, bottom, and Knows Pulvirenti, guitar to you. To the term of this tour it is closed newly in study in order to record its more recent album, "State of necessity" (2000), and one song to introduce to Sanremo, entitled "black In.bianco and". In the brani, trapela always one autobiographic vein: "there is also an element that I call" of identification "in the sense that I try to identify itself in surrounding truths filtering them and making them mine single", Carmen explains. And one carried out in music is perceived also, quieter and ordered hour: "To a sure point it seemed same impersonando a personage, that one of the artist that ago always and only rock, therefore I have tried to change. Me they are shrewed to have caught up the limit with ` Medium isterica' and I have intentional to imprimere sonorità various to the new album ". It can capitare therefore of even imbattersi in one tender bossa nova like that one of "Words of butter", one of the best melodici reasons of the catanese cantautrice. Always most careful to the image, Carmen Consuls by now has become the icona feminine of new rock the Italian one, between apparitions in tv, tournée lucky people and collabora