Andrea Corr

Glastonbury Festival 1999

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Ten feet high   DE 86 07/13/2007 (1 week)   CH 43 07/08/2007 (4 weeks)   UK 38 07/07/2007 (2 weeks)   IE 24 06/28/2007 (2 weeks) Lifelines   UK 48 06/11/2011 (1 week)   IE 40 06/02/2011 (1 week)

Singles

Shame on You (To Keep My Love from Me)   IE 43 06/28/2007 (1 week)

Andrea Jane Corr (born May 17, 1974 in Dundalk , Ireland ) is the lead singer of the group The Corrs , which consists of her three siblings Sharon , Caroline and Jim. She also plays tin whistle there .

Life

Andrea Corr is the youngest of the four siblings. Like her sisters, she went to school at the “Dun Lughaidh Convent” and was considered the best student among the siblings. She lives in Dublin .

In the last few years she has been advancing her acting career in addition to music. In 2005 Andrea Corr and her siblings were honored with the MBE by Elisabeth II . Andrea Corr's first solo album was released in June 2007. It's called Ten Feet High .

Andrea Corr married Brett Desmond, Irish stockbroker, on August 21, 2009. On April 28, 2012, the couple announced the birth of a daughter. Corr gave birth to their son on January 4, 2014.

Awards

• 1999: Heineken Hot Press Awards ( Northern Ireland ): Best Female Singer category .
• 2005: MBE (honorary)
• 2019: Irish Book Award - "Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year" for Barefoot Pilgrimage (memoir)

Discography

• Ten Feet High (2007)
• Lifelines (2011)

Filmography

• The Commitments (1991)
• Evita (1996)
• The Magic Sword - The Legend of Camelot (1998) (singing by Kayley)
• The Bridge (2005)
• The Boys from County Clare (2003)
• Knife Edge (2007)
• Broken Thread (2007)
• Pictures (2008)

theatre

• Dancing at Lughnasa (London, 2009)
• Jane Eyre (Dublin, 2010/2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE CH UK IE
2. ↑ Honorary MBEs are awarded to Corrs . In: RTE , January 10, 2007 (English).
3. ^ Miley Sheridan: www.dailymail.co.uk: Who wants to marry a billionaire? Blushing bride Andrea Corr weds stockbroker fiancé. In: Daily Mail , August 24, 2009.
4. ↑ Ken Sweeney: 'Tears in family' as Andrea Corr names baby after late mum. In: Irish Independent , April 30, 2012 (English).
5. ↑ Sam Hamilton: Andrea Corr reveals her "delight" after giving birth to a baby boy in the US. In: Daily Mirror , January 22, 2014 (English).
6. ↑ Barefoot Pilgrimage , irishbookawards.irish, accessed November 22, 2019.
7. ↑ Sam Leith: 'I sang and did the vixen stuff' In: The Guardian , February 25, 2009 (English).

Web links

Commons : Andrea Corr  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Andrea Corr in the Internet Movie Database (English)