ON THE BARRICADES WITH CALISTA

Caroline Waters had her debut as a three-year-old in her father, Per Asplin’s, Christmas musical ‘Putti Plutti Pott’. Now she fights for the rights of women with Calista Flockhart in Hollywood.

Los Angeles (Dagbladet)
Waters performed for Equality Now during an event in Los Angeles last weekend. Ally McBeal’s Calista Flockhart also helped the organization, which fights for girls and women’s rights all over the world. Ever since the actress herself witnessed a circumcision several years ago, she has participated in the fight.

New CD
Waters presented several tunes from her new CD ‘Venus Envy’ during the event, which she hopes to distribute widely in the USA.

Greg Mathieson, whom among others has worked with Cher, Sheena Easton, Al Jarreau and Barbra Streisand, produced the CD. It has become a personal record somewhere between funk, pop and R&B with a jazz flourish.

She has worked with this CD for two years in her own recording studio, which she began building in Los Angeles after she lost her father in 1996 and her mother, Unn, in 1995.

• Daddy was always a big support for me. When I lost him, it was like loosing my footing. That is one of the reasons why it feels great to stand on my own two feet again now, says Waters to Dagbladet.

With her three siblings, she is still involved in ‘Putti Plutti Pott’, but she doesn’t miss being on stage in the Christmas musical.

• When you have lived this long with something, it is refreshing with new elements.

Permission to express herself
Waters likes it in Los Angeles, ‘in the melting pot of fantastic and creative human beings’, as she characterizes the big city.

• You have permission to be eccentric here, to have dreams and express yourself. That fact suits my life very well at the moment, says Waters. She emphasizes that it neither is or has been easy to get established in Los Angeles.