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Corinne Bailey Rae (born Corinne Bailey on 26 February 1979) is an English singer and songwriter who released her eponymous debut album “Corinne Bailey Rae” in February 2006. Rae was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2006 in an annual BBC poll of music critics.
Rae was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire to a Kittitian father and an English mother, and she was the eldest of three daughters. She began her musical career at school where she studied classical violin before she turned her attention to singing: “I started off singing in church, I suppose, but people think it must have been a gospel church because of the whole, you know, black assumption”, she says in reference to her multiracial background. “But it wasn’t gospel at all, it was just your regular Brethren church, very middle-class, where we would sing these harmonies every Sunday. It was always my favourite part of the service, the singing”.
Rae later transferred to a Baptist church, where the choir would sing traditional hymns, and Primal Scream tunes. “We changed the words though”, Rae states on her website. “We didn’t want to offend the regular churchgoers, now did we?”
Performing in church broadened Rae’s musical horizons, and her love affair with making music was solidified after a local youth leader offered to buy her an electric guitar. In her mid-teens, she became obsessed with rock legends Led Zeppelin, “I loved that band during my teens; I wanted, somehow, to follow in their footsteps, and to create music of my own”.
Rae was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire to a Kittitian father and an English mother, and she was the eldest of three daughters. She began her musical career at school where she studied classical violin before she turned her attention to singing: “I started off singing in church, I suppose, but people think it must have been a gospel church because of the whole, you know, black assumption”, she says in reference to her multiracial background. “But it wasn’t gospel at all, it was just your regular Brethren church, very middle-class, where we would sing these harmonies every Sunday. It was always my favourite part of the service, the singing”.
Rae later transferred to a Baptist church, where the choir would sing traditional hymns, and Primal Scream tunes. “We changed the words though”, Rae states on her website. “We didn’t want to offend the regular churchgoers, now did we?”
Performing in church broadened Rae’s musical horizons, and her love affair with making music was solidified after a local youth leader offered to buy her an electric guitar. In her mid-teens, she became obsessed with rock legends Led Zeppelin, “I loved that band during my teens; I wanted, somehow, to follow in their footsteps, and to create music of my own”.
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The Blackest Lily
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Trouble Sleeping
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I Would Like To Call It Beauty
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Shoutbox
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caco2310 wrote:
One of the best soul/ jazz singers nowadays! She's mindblowing... and really cute too :)
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lovelikespring wrote:
i adore this lady
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heather_310 wrote:
corinne fans, give nneka's cd "concrete jungle" a listen...i think you'll hear something you like!
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donalucard wrote:
The new record is a huge step forward. Love it.
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hotterthanjuly wrote:
Epic fail, GreenSniper.
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Plym wrote:
Very good album.
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geeovane wrote:
paper dolls <3
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alicen1daland wrote:
The Sea is lovely from start to finish
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GreenSniper wrote:
more... literate... intelligent... sophisticated.... and I'm the smarty booty...
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wargrave wrote:
Talented girl!
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MISIAscension wrote:
Just bought The Sea. Amazing album, much more mature and sexily-sophisticated than her first album. <3
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kirill_m_07 wrote:
"With 'The Sea' currently standing as the highest new entry in the UK charts and having debuted at #7 in the US Billboard top 100, Corinne has announced details of the album's second single. 'Paris Nights/New York Mornings' will be released on the 29th March".
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Da_Real_Deal wrote:
bought it on iTunes, i'll buy a physical copy later.
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mkolsenka wrote:
i still waiting for my copy, i hope it will be uk edition, not us
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jcsn10 wrote:
I bought one as well.
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hotterthanjuly wrote:
Me.
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mkolsenka wrote:
great :) who has bought a copy of the sea btw?
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kirill_m_07 wrote:
'The Sea' debuted at #7 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and #2 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (53,321 copies sold)
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intherightplace wrote:
The Blackest Lily <3
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hotterthanjuly wrote:
GreenSniper, a smarter album is an album with more intelligent, literate and sophisticated lyrics, smartass.
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News
'The Sea' charts at Number 5 in UK
8 Feb 2010 | from www.corrinebaileyrae.net/emi-site/site.php?page=news&count=9999999&item=1772344
Wow, what a week that was! 'The Sea' followed it's first week success in the US (where it debuted at Number 7 on the Billboard charts) with a Top 5 charting in the UK, and the highest new entry at that.
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3 Feb 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/corinnebaileyrae
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