Caroline Pennell

Caroline Pennell (born 27th December, 1996) in Saddle River, New Jersey 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.

Early life
Pennell was born in 1996, and is the eldest of her four siblings. Pennell has three younger siblings: Bailey, Lucy, and Davis. She was born and raised in Saddle River, New Jersey, a town located in the New Jersey-New York border and near New York City. She attended Ramsey High School. She took classes at Tulane University in New Orleans but left to focus on her music career.

On The Voice
At age 17, Pennell auditioned for the fifth season of the American series of The Voice. She turned the chairs of CeeLo Green and Blake Shelton with her blind audition singing Ellie Goulding's "Anything Could Happen." She chose Green to be her coach. In the battle rounds she battled Anthony Paul, singing "As Long As You Love Me" by Justin Bieber. Green chose to advance Pennell to the next round. In the knockout round, she faced George Horga, Jr. singing Ingrid Michaelson's "The Way I Am". She was again picked by Green to advance to the Live Rounds. In the Live Rounds, she sang "We're Going to Be Friends" by the White Stripes and received the public vote. In the Top 10, she sang "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and landed in the bottom three. Before voting in the "Instant Save" system to pick one contestant in the bottom three to move forward, Pennell and Tessanne Chin performed Lorde's "Royals". Pennell was predicted to be the underdog in the bottom three, but after her performance, she received 80% of the Twitter votes, and moving on to the Top 8. The next week, she sang "Dog Days Are Over" and again landed in the bottom three. Matthew Schuler was picked on Twitter by the "Instant Save," ending Pennell's time as a contestant.

Penell originally picked Green because "comfort is a big thing for [her], and CeeLo radiates comfort. [She] just always wanted to hug him".

Nettwerk Music Group
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.

Discography
Pennell released her EP The Race on December 1, 2013. She wrote and co-produced all songs.

Other appearances
In addition to Coldplay's "Yellow," Pennell has also covered "Come and Get It" from the movie The Magic Christian, a song written by Paul McCartney. Her performance was featured as one of the five songs on Music for Linda, produced by Paul McCartney, sold to raise funds for Women and Cancer Fund.

She was featured on Bassjackers and Lucas and Steve's song "These Heights".