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Corinne Jacqueline Bailey Rae (born February 26, 1979 in Leeds , West Yorkshire ) is a British singer-songwriter and two-time Grammy Award winner.
biography
Childhood and youth
The singer was born Corinne Jacqueline Bailey in 1979 in the English industrial city of Leeds as the daughter of a British woman and an immigrant from the Caribbean island of St. Kitts . Her parents were interested in art and belonged to the petty bourgeoisie. She received violin lessons as a child , which she gave up at the age of 15. She started singing in church. She did not sing in gospel churches, but in normal churches, which were mostly attended by the middle class. Later she was a member of the choir of a Baptist church . She also has two younger sisters.
Musical beginnings and studies
At 15, she founded the indie band Helen , which consisted only of female members. The music she was now making was protest rock, leaning on bands like Nirvana . The label of Helen was Roadrunner Records , the bands like Slipknot under contract had.
Bailey Rae studied literature at the University of Leeds . During her studies she worked as a cloakroom attendant in a jazz bar, where she first came into contact with jazz and soul . It was in this bar that she met saxophonist Jason Rae, whom she married in 2001 at the age of 22. On March 22, 2008, he was found dead.
After their marriage , Bailey Rae began working on solo material. She worked with the funk group New Mastersounds from Leeds on the song Your Love Is Mine , which she had also written with the band. She then worked with the band Homecut Directive on the song Come The Revolution , which became the first single on the band's debut album.
In late 2004, Bailey Rae took part in Mark Hills , Craig David's mentor , new album Better Look Next Time , which he released under the alias The Stix . The result of this collaboration was the attention of major labels.
breakthrough
Bailey Rae composed the pieces for her debut album himself. After the first demos had been sent to the record companies, they outbid each other to sign them. After this bidding contest, she was committed for a seven-figure dollar sum. After appearing on television with famous presenters, the release of their album was preferred because Amazon received so many pre-orders that the US company could no longer cope with them.
Like a Star was Bailey Rae's debut single, which was only released in the UK in November 2005. It was limited to 3000 copies. The single was intended as a test for further release, but developed into a trophy among fans due to the small number of copies . In 2006 the single was released again due to popular demand. Her second single was released in the UK on February 20, 2006 and has since sold more than 65,000 copies. She went straight to number two in the UK single charts. The video was shot in South Africa . The self-named debut album Corinne Bailey Rae was released in Great Britain on February 27, 2006. It jumped from zero to number one on the British album charts and has sold more than 600,000 copies there. She was nominated by the BBC as a top favorite among those artists who were predicted to have a big breakthrough in 2006. In 2007 she was nominated for the Grammy Award in the Best New Artist category and with the single Put Your Records On in the Record of the Year and Song of the Year categories, but received nothing in the award ceremony.
Four singles were released from Bailey Rae's debut album of the same name: Like a Star , Put Your Record On , Trouble Sleeping and I'd Like To . The song Breathless got into the Japanese charts as a promo single through many airplays .
From 2010
In 2010, after four years, Bailey Rae's second album The Sea was released . This was also able to place itself in the top ten of the British and US charts, but could not follow the success of the debut album. The singles released from the album did not manage to place themselves in the singles charts.
In 2012, Bailey Rae received the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance for Is this love . In 2013, Bailey Rae had to change the record label because Capitol Records was bought by the Universal Music Group. She has since released on Virgin Records. In May 2016, Bailey Rae released her third album entitled The Heart Speaks In Whispers .
For the soundtrack to Fifty Shades of Gray , Bailey Rae recorded a cover version of the Coldplay title The Scientist . The recording serves as the cover story for the film. After the film was released, the title hit the charts in German-speaking countries and made a chart comeback after a little over a decade. She contributed the theme song Lucky Man to the series Stan Lee's Lucky Man , which was first broadcast on Sky 1 Television UK in 2016 .
style
Most of the time, Bailey Rae's music is referred to as soul pop and she is thus a soul singer. Sometimes jazz pop or neo-soul are also used to describe their musical style. But it is undisputed that she lets soul and jazz influence her music. Accordingly, you can also find influences from both styles in their pieces. She is usually only accompanied by her band, but with some pieces also by strings and wind instruments . Björk , Massive Attack and Jill Scott provided direct inspiration for their album .
Bailey Rae's style differs significantly from that of modern R&B , as it is perceived as much more elegant and calm, in contrast to the clichéd drama of R&B. On her debut, she worked with renowned producers such as Al Stone , Paul Herman and Tommy Dee , who also influenced the direction of the record.
Bailey Rae himself likes the classic jazz standards because they don't sound that aloof. In contrast, she is very critical of other artists such as Madonna , the Pussycat Dolls and Christina Aguilera . Above all, she criticizes the fact that these artists could not stop “sticking their asses into the camera”. That is a bad role model, especially for children.
Texts
Bailey Rae wrote the lyrics for her first album himself or was at least involved in them. They are about the expectations of love and its reality. She takes the view that conflict in a relationship is not necessarily a bad thing. She only tries to process things in her lyrics that correspond to her own point of view, because she has to believe in her lyrics for appearances.
The time of her studies, in which Bailey Rae still had to work on the side and was waiting for her discovery as a musician, she processed in the song Seasons Change , where she used the verse "patience is a virtue" (translated: "Patience is a virtue") took up her life motto at the time.
According to Bailey Raes, the US author Alice Walker , who in the book Anything We Love Can Be Saved tells about the relationship between a Jew and a black woman in the USA in the 1960s, also had an influence on her texts . The message of this work is that it shows how social influences affect a relationship.
reviews
The reviews Bailey Rae receives are extremely positive. The Sunday Mirror considers her the “female star of 2006” and the Sun also predicts her great success with the statement “this lady will be a star”. The Guardian compares her voice to those of Billie Holiday , Macy Gray and Lauryn Hill . The Focus compared one of their promo appearances with a "summer wind" and elevated the entire appearance to a "rare great moment".
Discography
Albums
- 2006: Corinne Bailey Rae (2007 also as Special Edition)
- 2007: Live in London & New York
- 2010: The Sea
- 2011: The Love EP
- 2016: The Heart Speaks in Whispers
Singles
- 2005: Like a Star
- 2006: Put Your Records On
- 2006: Trouble Sleeping
- 2007: I'd Like To
- 2007: Breathless
- 2010: I'd Do It All Again
- 2010: Paris Nights / New York Mornings
- 2010: Closer
- 2010: Is This Love
- 2016: Been to the Moon
- 2016: Green Aphrodisiac
- 2016: Hey, I Won't Break Your Heart
Web links
- Official website of Corinne Bailey Rae (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH US
- ↑ Corinne Bailey Rae in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ↑ Awards: DE CH UK US
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b http://www.musik-base.de/Bands/C/Corinne-Bailey-Rae/Biographie/
- ^ A b c Sven F. Goergens: Summer wind in Cologne. In: Focus . March 27, 2006, accessed on October 5, 2017 (Issue No. 13/2006, p. 191).
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7310688.stm
- ↑ BBC news vote
- ↑ Ed Sheeran Beats Fifty Shades Of Gray on germanchartblog on Feb. 17, 2017; Retrieved on Feb. 22, 2017
- ↑ http://www.musik-news.de/musik-news/6475/corinne-bailey-rae-neuer-stern-am-jazzpop-himmel.htm/
- ↑ a b The patient diva ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Stuttgarter Zeitung from March 9, 2006
- ↑ http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/rae%20slams%20madonna%20and%20aguilera_22_05_2006/
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/dec/19/popandrock2
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bailey Rae, Corinne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bailey, Corinne Jacqueline (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British singer-songwriter and two-time Grammy Award winner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leeds , West Yorkshire , England, United Kingdom |