Corinne Bailey Rae -
Corinne Bailey Rae will release her stirringly soulful self-titled debut album on June 20th, 2006.
It becomes self-evident the moment you hear her sing the very first note - it's a slice of sublime blues delivered with a voice that pins you, in the softest but most persuasive of ways, to the wall; a voice that floats up effortlessly, full of caress, subtlety and the very purest quality. It is wonderful, this voice, and surely a discovery to treasure, but it belongs to a young woman not from somewhere musically exotic - say, Mississippi or even Manhattan - but just east of the M1: Leeds. Her name is Corinne Bailey Rae, and she was born to do this.
Inspired as much by Björk and Massive Attack as, say, Jill Scott, she went into the studio and came up with her debut album. It is in Corinne's own words, "a little bit of everything: it's chilled out, acoustic, kooky, atmospheric and soulful. I'd also be tempted to say it comes from a very organic place, but that would sound pretentious, so I won't."
The response has been truly amazing. With her first very limited edition EP Like a Star entering the UK Top 40 in November 2005 and the first single proper “Put Your Records On” becoming a Europe-wide smash, the world is at her feet. Added to that a mountain of incredible press articles singing her many praises, magazine front covers, topping the BBC poll of ‘Sound Of 2006’, sold-out tour dates across Europe and the kind of radio and TV play that established artists can only dream of, there seems to be no stopping Corinne.
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