Born in Sassari on the island of Sardinia, Eva Carboni is a Blues singer and songwriter. She studied at the prestigious Vocal Power Academy in Los Angeles, graduating in singing with the renowned vocal coach Elisabeth Howard. In 2017 she began her collaboration with the British producer and songwriter Andy Littlewood and his label Mad Ears Productions, being guest vocalist on the track ‘River of Life’, by Blues rock guitarist Mick Simpson, and featured on his album ‘Black Rain’, which received airplay from Paul Jones (BBC Radio 2).
Since then Eva has recorded and released with Andy Littlewood four albums ‘Italia Square’, ‘Smoke and Mirrors’, ‘Blues Siren’, ‘The blues Archives’ and numerous singles and the EP ‘In The Name of The Blues’ released in 2024. Her recording work features a spellbinding mix of blues, rock, and jazz. She’s receiving rave reviews and worldwide radio airplay. One of the more popular songs, ‘Love Me Tonight’ is hitting millions views. The gospel-tinged ballad, ‘New Day Calling’, was licensed for use in the soundtrack of the movie, ‘Distant Sun’. Her albums includes contributions by a host of top musician’s including Mick Simpson, Vic Martin, Dave Hunt, Andrius Linsdell, Pete Nelson, Giovanni Bruno and Bob Steves.
Eva Carboni loves to walk on a land between blues and rock, winking at jazz every now and then. Her voice goes from warmth and sensuality to flights on dizzy notes, which can have an acidic, scratchy or desperate sound. Eva is never the same in her interpretations, sometimes she lets her soul shine through with intensity, sometimes she is sensual and calm, sometimes she just tells a story, almost with purposeful detachment. In her first 14-track album ‘Italia Square’ (2019), the blues ballad written by Mick Simpson and Andy Littlewood, ‘Love me Tonight’ immediately brought her to the fore on the international blues scene, an intense song in which her voice reaches straight to the heart, with Mick Simpson’s warm guitar lines. Many other great songs on that album were entrusted to her by Andy Littlewood, that is author or co-author of all Eva’s songs, such as the beautiful ‘Dark Clouds’ with a smoky taste Jazzy-blues and ‘Good Times’, the rock anthem “You Don’t Know” and the poignant rock ballad with an Irish perfume, ‘Forever Long’, and ’The Witching Hour’ with voodoo atmospheres. Rock, blues, jazz, gospel, many flavors, different scenarios connected by the infinite shades of color of Eva’s voice.
Her second album, ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ was released in 2022. It contains 12 tracks signed by Andy Littlewood including one written by Eva along with Andy, ‘That Night’, her official debut as a songwriter. The album, in which Andy as always also contributes in an excellent way with guitars, keyboards, bass, and backing vocals, starts immediately with a solid rock song ‘Building a Wall’, where the voice of Eva sings dry lines as stilettate that fully reveal her part of rock soul, thumping bass and scorching guitar lines. In ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ track cleverly sewn on her by her brilliant producer the voice becomes intense and dramatic with a tone a little mocking and irreverent. In the striking blues ballad ‘Call My Name’ Eva’s voice floats with bright and warm colors in a suspended atmosphere and once again creates a magic with the guitar of Mick Simpson, enough to push Andy Littlewood to release an extended mix of 7 minutes outside the album.
Her first song as a published songwriter, written with Andy Littlewood, ‘That Night’ is a powerful ballad steeped in mysticism where the voice sounds intensely immersed in the story of a confused soul who gets lost and then finds the path. The stylized voice meets the blues harmonica of Dave Hunt in “Bad Blood” creating a smoky atmosphere of dark magic of great effect. She becomes soft and sensual winking at Marilyn in ‘Sweet Mystery’. In ‘The Winter of ’51’, a story of another time in the beautiful plot that Andy built, also playing the piano wonderfully, she gets emotional as if she really lived that moment all emphasized by the melancholy sound of piano and guitar. While working on the new album, some other singles were released, including, in December 2023, the motivational ballad ‘The Magic’ written by Eva and Andy. It is a hymn to the search for one’s own identity and inner strength, in search of one’s own essence.
The EP ‘In The Name of The Blues’ comes out in early 2024 and is a solid combination in 6 tracks of rock and blues, ‘In the Name of the Blues’, classic blues story of love disappointment accompanied by alcohol and good music, ‘The South Wind Blows’ another beautiful slow blues song that Andy and Eva give us, with the magical atmosphere that their artistic collaboration always manages to create. The tones get warm and rock with ‘Stony Ground’, and ‘That Devil Man’ another hot story in a rock-blues key. The EP brings together two other pearls that were previously released as singles, the rebellious and incisive ‘Independence Street’ and the intense epic rock ballad ‘We Come Alive’. Blues Siren, the new 13-track album by Eva Carboni, has been released on November 17, 2024, following a few days earlier release of an alternate version of “Slow Road to Redemption.”
The album combines elements of blues and rock, with a couple of jazz tracks that evoke a retro, old-style atmosphere. Several notable collaborations feature in the album. The tracks “Blues Siren,” “In the Streets of London,” and “Wrong Place Wrong Time” were co-written by Eva Carboni and Andy Littlewood. The song “I’ve Paid My Dues” resulted from a collaboration between Vic Martin, the renowned English Hammond player (Gary Moore, Eurithmics, BeeGees) and Andy Littlewood. The rock ballad “Alive and Breathing” was written by the Slovakian composer Marian Zima and Andy Littlewood, while the blues ballad “You’ve Gotta Change” was penned by Andy Littlewood and Mick Simpson. The remaining tracks were written solely by Andy Littlewood, with Mick Simpson contributing his guitar on most of the album’s songs.
The album has since been featured on numerous radio shows, reviews and interviews globally, Europe, UK, USA, Australia, Latin America and China. And it received numerous nominations and awards. On June 29, 2025, a rather unusual 11-tracks album was released, entitled “The Blues Archives”. It is a collection of unreleased songs; some of Eva Carboni’s most beloved songs, such as “Love Me Tonight”, “Wrong Turn” and “The Magic”, and some lesser-known songs. A sort of mystical suspension, a pause for reflection on the path already followed up to now, projecting itself into the search for new unexplored paths. Like a transition album. Each song presents itself with a vaguely different flavor, like a beautiful woman preparing to go out wearing a new dress. Andy Littlewood masterfully crafted every nuance. The album was understood, received and immediately acclaimed by radio, audiences and critics. Over the past few years she has performed with musician’s such as Mick Simpson and Vic Martin (Gary Moore), Derek Wilson, Mario Schilliro (Zucchero), and she also met artists like Buddy Guy, Marco Mendoza, Roy Rogers, Sergio Caputo. The new band is made up of five-star musicians such as the usual friends Mick Simpson, Vic Martin and various lineups of other great musicians.
