Caroline Pennell is an American singer-songwriter. She was a contestant on the fifth season of the United States version of the reality singing competition The Voice. Since 2021, she has been releasing music under the name Carol Ades.

The New Jersey-born and Los Angeles-based artist, singer, and songwriter wants to empower you, but she’s going to keep it real too. Carol dedicated her whole life to music and even had a few brushes with major success on stage and behind-the-scenes. Following a bad breakup, she turned inward and wasn’t afraid to get raw in 2018. Under the influence of everything from the series Fleabag, Greta Gerwig, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Glennon Doyle to Japanese House, MUNA, and Phoebe Bridgers, she began to write her own “coming of age” story. Ironically, the first song of this phase ended up in the hands of two other artists, becoming “Past Life” for Trevor Daniel and Selena Gomez. With the onset of quarantine, she wrote for herself at a prolific pace, making emotional lyric-driven songs “you can scream to or sob to in your car.” The first of which is her debut single “I Can’t Wait to be British.” You’ll find she’s a lot like the friend who lets you cry on her shoulder, but still tells it like it is when you need to hear it the most, holding your hand through the mess with timeless music of her own.

“My best friends call me Carol,” she says. “It feels a bit grandma-ish, which I love. I feel like I’m a 60-year-old in a 25-year-old’s body. Ades is my middle name and makes me feel so close to who I was as a kid. I didn’t make up new name, since the music is so personal. Carol Ades feels like the ‘wiser voice’ in the back of my head who helps me solve problems. So many songs poured out of me over the last year as a direct result of processing change. Now feels like the right time to put out into the world.”

Leading off with the breathy wit and intimacy of “I Can’t Wait to be British,” Ades’ upcoming debut EP will showcase her evolving imagination with raw and real anthems as undeniable as they are unapologetic, emotional lyric-driven songs “you can scream to or sob to in your car.”

“I want fans to listen to these songs and feel like, ‘Oh shit, I really needed to hear that’ or ‘That’s what I was feeling this morning, but I couldn’t figure out the words to describe it’,” Carol Ades says. “I’m going to keep building a world around a community of people who feel like me and want to help each other through hard things.”

Pennell announced that she would join the Nettwerk Music Group. She was featured on the album "From Cover to Cover: 30 Years at Nettwerk". Her version of Coldplay's "Yellow" was one of the most downloaded songs from the album. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.