the Glass Child

I'm an organized mess. I can't sleep at night. I believe in ghosts. I make mistakes and I mess up a lot. I'm having some trouble accepting myself and I'm afraid of not being good enough. I believe in the future, for I have seen yesterday, and I'm still alive . I laugh a lot, and I'm easily amused, but also easily bored, mostly with myself. I have trust issues and I remember every single word from conversations. I moved and left everything I had built for 19 years. I spent a year in solitude, with my mind and my music and I learned how to build my home in my art. When I sing, I'm not scared anymore. I want this to mean something. I believe in writing your own story, and that's what I'm doing here. I'm mostly insecure, but when I really want something I can find a way to get it. I turn everything into a battle because I love the sound of winning. This is my way of saying, I did not come here to lose. I'm a glass child. I'm still creepy little me.

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the Glass Child, Charlotte Eriksson, is the girl from Sweden who left everything she knew to prove to the world what she can do and live her life on her own terms. Only 19 years old she moved all on her own to London to give her life to the music. Since then Charlotte has started her own record label ”Broken Glass Records”, produced and released 2 EPs critically acclaimed EPs. In September she released a charity-single ”I Will Lead You Home”, for the swedish cancer-organization Ung Cancer, to support young victims of the disease. The song exploded and reached # 2 on the Swedish Itunes-charts and has been played over 460,000 times on youtube. She was named Breakthrough Indie Artist of the Year by Lemonade Magazine and has been played on BBC6, Sveriges Radio (sweden) and 3FM (Netherlands), and is currently touring the UK together with the British artist Tiger Lilly. And most of all, she's done everything on her own, with nothing but a dream, hard work and determination. 


”I think you have to decide what kind of person you wanna be. Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.”


“ I made a decision. Find what you love and let it kill you, right? So I left all I had, moved to London, and I spent a year here, observing my own behavior and how other people live. I left my friends and family back home, and had to deal with the missing, the moving on, and how to let new people in. I've been forced to get to know myself and my mind, and I've spend weeks in solitude, telling the story of my life. ” 

After the chart-success with the charity-single ’I Will Lead You Home’ she released the single ’I’ll Never Tell’ on May 17th, to raise awareness of domestic violence and personal struggle. With art as her language, she did an international collaboration with two Italian dancers to create an official music-video to reach out with her message.

”There are no words for it. So I'm speaking through my music, these dancers are speaking through their movements, and the result is an official music-video to my song ‘I’ll Never Tell’, with these dancers speaking their language, and I’m speaking mine. Together we’re hoping that we can open someone’s eyes. That it can leave a scar, make a mess inside someone, just like it has done to me. Hoping that it can make someone out there aware. Hoping that maybe if we dare to acknowledge this, and say that it’s okay to talk about, because you’re not alone, then maybe one single person out there dare to talk up about it too. And maybe, if more people dare to accept these truths, and that it’s probably happening to someone you love, then one day we might be able to do something about this. But that's not gonna happen as long as we're shifting our weight, averting our eyes when someone mention domestic violence or self-harm." 




”My lyrics might be too honest, edgy and make people uncomfortable, but if that’s what it takes to reach them, I’ll do it. I want to shock people. Shake up the world. Make them think thoughts and feel things they never felt before. Leave a scar. I want to go above and beyond what’s expected of me. I want to do this so well that they can’t take their eyes off me. I want to be breathtaking.”

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I am determined to stand by my belief that music is bigger than who can afford expensive promo-campaigns and that you can reach out and connect with people even if you don't have a major company that pays for your success. After endless nights, thousands of emails, phone-calls, rejections and 'no's, I am finally going on a 2 months long tour this summer, allover the UK. This has been my goal for so long, but I need your help and support to be able to do this. Your support will go to the travel-expences from venue to venue and to print posters and flyers to promote the shows. If the budget allows, it will also go to printing of merch, that I've been wanting to do for way too long now, but I simply can't afford it. Together we can make this happen! So let's tell the world about our existence! <3