![]() ![]() I wanted to be like that, at the front of something." The group raised eyebrows on several fronts in the white male-dominated world of indie music, they were a mainly female group, fronted by a mixed-race singer from Leeds. "It was the first time I'd seen women with guitars. "I loved that band during my teens I wanted, somehow, to follow in their footsteps, and to create music of my own." īailey Rae formed an indie group called Helen, which was inspired by similar acts such as Veruca Salt and L7. In her mid-teens, she was highly influenced by Lenny Kravitz, also discovering rock legends Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. Performing in church broadened Bailey Rae's musical horizons, and her love for making music was solidified after the church youth leader offered to lend her the money for her first guitar. "We didn't want to offend the regular churchgoers." She recorded two albums with the youth group under the name of Revive. "We changed the words though," Bailey Rae states on her website. The church's young people wrote their own worship songs and sang covers of songs by Primal Scream. ![]() It was always my favourite part of the service, the singing." Bailey Rae later transferred to a Baptist church, where the youth leader coached rock bands in the local high school. "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. Video:Corinne Bailey Rae - Like A Star (New Version) Childhood īailey Rae was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, to a Kittitian father and an English mother, as the oldest of three daughters, including her siblings, Candice Bailey and actress Rhea Bailey.īailey Rae 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 said in reference to her multi-racial background. Her two albums have together sold over five million copies worldwide. Bailey Rae was married to fellow musician Jason Rae from 2001 until his death in 2008, and as part of the grieving process, she channelled her emotions into her music. In 2012, she won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance (for " Is This Love)". She was nominated for the 2010 Mercury Prize for Album of the Year. It was produced by Steve Brown and Steve Chrisanthou (who produced her debut album in 2006). ![]() īailey Rae released her second album, The Sea, on 26 January 2010, after a hiatus of almost three years. In 2008, she won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year (for her work as a featured artist in Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters). ![]() In 2007, Bailey Rae was nominated for three Grammy Awards and three Brit Awards, and won two MOBO Awards. She released her debut album, Corinne Bailey Rae, in February 2006, and became the fourth female British act in history to have her first album debut at number one. Bailey Rae was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2006 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2006. Visit Raw Pages for more that need doing!Ĭorinne Jacqueline Rae (née Bailey born 26 February 1979) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Leeds, West Yorkshire. See: Editing a JazzSkool Page for instructions. This is the raw source file and needs to be edited, verified, and reformatted. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |