While the hit singles "Put Your Records On" and soundtrack-ubiquitous "Like a Star" from Corinne Bailey Rae came across as effortlessly soothing, 2010's The Sea offered a mournful, yearning response to her husband's 2008 death. Her coat-check job in a jazz club led to onstage sit-ins, a record deal, and marriage to saxophonist Jason Rae. Born in 1979 in Leeds, England, to a Caribbean father and English mother, Bailey Rae sang in a Baptist church choir whose leader encouraged her to form the all-female indie group Helen. Indeed, Bailey Rae excels at reinterpretations, as a 2011 collection of love songs by the likes of Prince, Bob Marley, and Paul McCartney proves.
Meanwhile, her somewhat folky soul-pop sound also had enough jazz nuance for Herbie Hancock to enlist her for the title track of his Grammy-winning 2007 Joni Mitchell tribute, River. Pre-order the vinyl reissues of Corinne Bailey Rae, which are released on August 13.The self-titled debut from genre-busting Corinne Bailey Rae dropped in early 2006 with enough new ideas to reignite the flagging neo-soul movement. at the 2021 BAFTA Awards at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Most recently in her distinguished career, in April, Bailey Rae performed the Sam Cooke classic “A Change Is Gonna Come” as a duet with Leslie Odom Jr. That year, she also won her first Grammy, for her appearance on the Album of the Year award-winner, Herbie Hancock’s River: The Joni Letters. In 2008, the artist was nominated for another Grammy Award for Song of the Year for “Like a Star,” while “Put Your Records On” won an ASCAP Award for Song of the Year. It has now sold more than four million copies globally. The album has been certified triple platinum in the UK and platinum in the US, where it peaked at No.4. That track was a major No.2 single in the UK, spending no less than 29 weeks on the chart, while the album itself spent 58 weeks on the Official Charts Company’s Top 100, over a period of 14 months.
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