Corinne Bailey Rae
Corinne Bailey Rae
Background information
Birth name	Corinne Bailey
Born	26 February 1979
Origin	Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Genre(s)	Soul, R&B, neo soul, blues
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter
Years active	2005–present
Label(s)	EMI
Website	CorinneBaileyRae.net

Corinne Bailey Rae (born 26 February 1979) is an acclaimed English singer and songwriter who released her eponymous debut album in February 2006. Rae was named the number one predicted breakthrough act of 2006 in an annual BBC poll of music critics.^[1] The poll's predictions subsequently came true, as she became only the fourth female British act in history to have her first album debut at number one. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (500x707, 39 KB) Summary Picture was issued by EMI as a promotional piece to advertise Corinne Bailey Raes December gigs in London. ... February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Statistics Population: 443,247 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE297338 Administration Metropolitan borough: City of Leeds Metropolitan county: West Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: West Yorkshire Police Ambulance service... West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England, corresponding roughly to the core of the West Riding of the traditional county of Yorkshire. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi   - Water (%) Population... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Soul music is a combination of rhythm and blues and gospel which began in the late 1950s in the United States. ... Rhythm and blues (AKA R&B or RnB) is a popular music genre combining jazz, gospel, and blues influences — first performed by African American artists. ... Neo soul (also known as nu soul) is a musical genre that fuses contemporary R&B, 1970s style soul, and hip hop. ... Blues music redirects here. ... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Kensington in London, in the United Kingdom. ... February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi   - Water (%) Population... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) whose name has become identified with a particular object or activity. ... Corinne Bailey Rae is the eponymous first album by British singer Corinne Bailey Rae. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest public broadcasting corporation in the world. ...

Biography

Childhood

Rae was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, to a West Indian 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 mixed-race 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."^[2] Statistics Population: 443,247 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE297338 Administration Metropolitan borough: City of Leeds Metropolitan county: West Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: West Yorkshire Police Ambulance service... West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England, corresponding roughly to the core of the West Riding of the traditional county of Yorkshire. ... The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. ... A violin The violin is a bowed stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ... A church building (or simply church) is a building used in Christian worship. ... For other uses, see Gospel (disambiguation). ... The Brethren are any of several Christian denominations, most of which are Anabaptist-Pietist. ...

Rae later transferred to a Baptist church, where the choir alternated between traditional hymns and the slightly less orthodox Primal Scream wig-outs. "We changed the words though," Rae states on her website. "We didn't want to offend the regular churchgoers, now did we?"^[2] A Baptist is a member of a Baptist church. ... A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a god or other religiously significant figure. ... Primal Scream (temporarily abbreviated to PRML SCRM for the XTRMNTR album) are a rock group formed in Glasgow, Scotland, headed by former Jesus & Mary Chain drummer Bobby Gillespie. ...

Helen

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, (and) I wanted, somehow, to follow in their footsteps, and to create music of my own."^[2] Left: Rosa Hurricane, a heavy metal-style solid body guitar. ... Rock is a form of popular music from the late 20th century which typically features a vocal melody (often with vocal harmony) that is supported by accompaniment of electric guitars, a bass guitar, and drums, often with a strong back beat. ... Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, and are one of the most successful and influential groups in popular music history. ...

When she was 15, Rae formed an all-female indie group called Helen, which was inspired by similar acts such as Veruca Salt and L7. "It was the first time I'd seen women with guitars. They were kinda sexy - but feminist. I wanted to be like that, at the front of something."^[3] In popular music, indie music (from independent) is any of a number of genres, scenes, subcultures and stylistic and cultural attributes, characterised by perceived independence from commercial pop music and mainstream culture and an autonomous, do-it-yourself (DIY) approach. ... Veruca Salt was an alternative rock group of the 1990s, named after Veruca Salt, a character from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. ... L7 is a punk all-women band. ...

The group raised eyebrows on several fronts; in the white male-dominated world of indie music, they were an all-female group fronted by a mixed-race singer from Leeds. The moniker "Helen" also drew attention, albeit for not all the right reasons: "What can I say? We were 15 years old, and thought that Helen was a cheeky, indie kind of thing to do. It seemed clever at the time. Admittedly, it seems less so now."^[2]

The group played many gigs around Leeds, including a memorable performance at Joseph's Well with Leeds-based band Swift, fronted by wildman rocker Royce Dunston. Despite this, the group became the first indie act to be signed to heavy metal record label Roadrunner Records, home to acts such as Slipknot, in 1995. The venture proved to be short-lived however after the bassist became pregnant and the group disbanded. "(Was I) Disappointed? I was gutted! I had no idea what to do next."^[2] Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s, having its roots in hard rock bands which, between 1967 and 1974, mixed blues and rock to create a hybrid with a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterised by the... Roadrunner United album cover Roadrunner Records is an independent record label that concentrates heavily on metalcore and post-hardcore bands (with exceptions). ... Slipknot is a nine-piece American band from Des Moines, Iowa, formed in 1990 and currently signed to Roadrunner Records. ...

University life

After the disappointment of Helen, Rae went on to attend the University of Leeds where she studied an English Literature degree. Whilst at University, she began work as a hatcheck girl on an evening in her local jazz club. Permitted to sing on stage with the jazz band when business was slow, it was there that she discovered a different type of music that sent her on a different musical path: "I kept hearing this jazz and soul stuff and I realised I loved that music too." It was there also that she met saxophone player Jason Rae, whom she eventually married in 2001 at the age of 22. "I was Corinne Bailey. I added on Rae, my husband's name, when I got married. There's no hyphen; stops it being posh!" Parkinson Building, University of Leeds The University of Leeds, England, is one of the largest universities in the United Kingdom and the most popular by applicants, with 52,444 applicants in 2003 for 7,228 places (UCAS). ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory and marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans. ... Saxophones of different sizes play in different registers. ...

Career

• Over the space of the next three years, Rae began working on solo material — this time steering away from her indie past and embarking on a more 'soulful' path.
• She collaborated with Leeds-based funk group The New Mastersounds on the track "Your Love Is Mine", featured on their 2003 album Be Yourself released via One Note Records.
• The following year she again worked with another Leeds-based group, Homecut Directive, on the song "Come The Revolution", which was the first single from the group's debut album.
• In 2004 that Corinne got a breakthrough when she was approached by Craig David's mentor Mark Hill, from the duo The Artful Dodger, to appear on his new album better luck next time under his new alias, The stiX. The resulting collaboration, "Young And Foolish" was released in April 2005 and brought Rae to the attention of the major record label bosses.
• Rae released her debut single, "Like a Star", in November 2005 and her first album, "Corinne Bailey Rae" in February 2006.
• In September 2006, Rae scooped 2 awards at the UK MOBO Awards for Best UK Newcomer and Best UK Female.

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Present

After the successful UK launch of her self-titled debut album, Corinne begun a gruelling press tour of Europe. World map showing Europe Political map Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of Earth; the term continent here referring to a cultural and political distinction, rather than a physiographic one, thus leading to various perspectives about Europes precise borders. ...

She has recently announced a string of tour dates for October with tickets for these gigs selling out quickly, however, these dates have since been cancelled. Preliminary plans suggest she will record new material at the end of 2006.

In the June 2006 edition of Q magazine, Corinne can be found singing a cover of Björk's 1993 song "Venus as a Boy". Q is a music and entertainment magazinepublished monthly in the United Kingdom. ... In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ... Björk Guðmundsdóttir (IPA: ) (born November 21, 1965 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer (formerly the lead singer of alternative rock band The Sugarcubes), with a great expressive range and an interest in many kinds of music including pop, trip hop, alternative rock... Venus as a Boy was a single released in August 1993 by Icelandic singer Björk through One Little Indian. ...

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Discography

Albums

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Singles

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Like A Star was the debut single by British soul sensation, Corinne Bailey Rae. ... Put Your Records On was the second single by British soul singer, Corinne Bailey Rae, and was released in February and early March 2006 throughout Europe. ...

B-sides

Like A Star was the debut single by British soul sensation, Corinne Bailey Rae. ... Like A Star was the debut single by British soul sensation, Corinne Bailey Rae. ... Put Your Records On was the second single by British soul singer, Corinne Bailey Rae, and was released in February and early March 2006 throughout Europe. ... Put Your Records On was the second single by British soul singer, Corinne Bailey Rae, and was released in February and early March 2006 throughout Europe. ... Put Your Records On was the second single by British soul singer, Corinne Bailey Rae, and was released in February and early March 2006 throughout Europe. ...

Other tracks

Notes and references

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External links

• Official website
• Official Forum
• Corinnebaileyrae.org - Fansite
• Like a Star - Fansite
• musicOMH.com interview
• The Guardian interview
• Corinne Bailey Rae Lyrics
• Corinne Bailey Rae at MusicBrainz