Corinne Jacqueline Bailey Rae (; born 26 February 1979) is an English singer and songwriter. She is best known for her 2006 single "
Put Your Records On
"Put Your Records On" is a song by English singer Corinne Bailey Rae from her self-titled debut studio album (2006). Written by Bailey Rae, John Beck, and Steve Chrisanthou, it was released as the album's second single in February and early Ma ...
". Bailey Rae was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2006 in an annual BBC poll of music critics,
Sound of 2006
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. 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. In 2007, Bailey Rae was nominated for three
Grammy Award
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s and three
Brit Awards, and won two
MOBO Awards. In 2008, she won a
Grammy Award for Album of the Year
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(for her work as a featured artist in
Herbie Hancock
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's ''
River: The Joni Letters'').
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Bailey Rae released her second album, ''
The Sea'', on 26 January 2010, after a hiatus of almost three years. It was produced by Steve Brown and
Steve Chrisanthou
Steve Chrisanthou is a British songwriter, music producer, and recording engineer. He is a Grammy Award, Ivor Novello Award and Brit Award nominee, and a MOBO Award winner for co-writing the song “Put Your Records On” with John Beck and C ...
(who produced her
debut album in 2006). She was nominated for the 2010
Mercury Prize
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for Album of the Year. In 2012, she won a
Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance for "
Is This Love" (a cover of the
Bob Marley and the Wailers song of the same name). Bailey Rae was married to fellow musician Jason Rae from 2001 until his death from drugs in 2008; she channeled the grief of his loss into her music. Her first two albums have together sold over five million copies worldwide.
On 26 February 2016, Bailey Rae announced her third album, ''
The Heart Speaks in Whispers
''The Heart Speaks in Whispers'' is the third studio album by English singer and songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, released on 13 May 2016 by Virgin EMI Records.
Critical reception
''The Heart Speaks in Whispers'' received generally positive re ...
'', which was released on 13 May 2016. ''The Heart Speaks in Whispers'' debuted at No. 2 on ''Billboard''
's R&B chart.
Early life
Bailey Rae was born in
Leeds
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, England. Her father is from
Saint Kitts and Nevis, and her mother, Linda, is English, although they separated when she was a child. She is the eldest of three daughters. Her siblings include Candice Bailey, and actress
Rhea Bailey.
Bailey Rae began her musical career at school, where she studied
classical violin
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before turning her attention to singing. Some of her earliest vocal performance experiences took place at a
Plymouth Brethren church. Bailey Rae later transferred to a
Baptist
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church, where the youth leader also coached rock bands in the local high school.
[ The church's young people wrote their own worship songs and sang covers of songs by Primal Scream. She recorded two albums with the worship ministry youth group, under the name "Revive." 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 to buy her first guitar. In her mid-teens, she was highly influenced by Lenny Kravitz, also exploring rock through listening to legends Jimi Hendrix and ]Led Zeppelin
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.
Bailey Rae studied English language and literature
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at the University of Leeds
, mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased
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, ...
, where she graduated in 2000.
Music career
1998–2003: Beginnings
Bailey Rae formed an indie group called Helen, which was inspired by similar acts such as Veruca Salt
Veruca Salt is an American alternative rock band founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1992 by vocalist-guitarists Nina Gordon and Louise Post, drummer Jim Shapiro and bassist Steve Lack. They are best known for their first single, "Seether", tha ...
and L7. "It was the first time I'd seen women with guitars. They were kinda sexy—but feminist
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. I wanted to be like that, at the front of something." The group played many gigs around Leeds and, whilst unable to attract offers from any UK labels, were eventually approached by US-based heavy metal record label Roadrunner Records
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History
The label was launched in 1980 in ...
, home to acts such as Slipknot, in 1998. This deal disappeared before it was even signed, however, after the bassist became pregnant and the group disbanded. " as IDisappointed? I was gutted! I had no idea what to do next."
In the three years after she married her first husband, Bailey Rae began working on solo material—this time steering away from her indie past and embarking on a more "soulful" path. She collaborated with Leeds-based funk
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group the New Mastersounds on the track "Your Love Is Mine," which featured on their 2003 album ''Be Yourself'', released by One Note Records. The following year she again worked with another Leeds-based group, Home cut Directive, on the song "Come the Revolution", which was the first single from that group's debut album.
2004–2008: ''Corinne Bailey Rae''
In 2004, Bailey Rae got a breakthrough when she was signed by Global Talent Publishing and then approached by Craig David's mentor Mark Hill, from the duo the Artful Dodger, to appear on his new album '' better luck next time'' under his new alias, the stiX. The resulting collaboration, "Young and Foolish," was released in April 2005 and brought Bailey Rae to the attention of the major record label bosses.
Bailey Rae released her debut single, "Like a Star
"Like a Star" is a song by English singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, released as the lead single from her self-titled debut studio album (2006). It was written by Bailey Rae and produced by Steve Chrisanthou. The song was originally releas ...
", in November 2005 and her first album, '' Corinne Bailey Rae'', in February 2006. It debuted at number one in the UK and entered the top ten of the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200, peaking at number four and spending 71 weeks in the chart from 2006 to 2008. According to Nielsen SoundScan
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, the album sold 1.9 million copies in the United States alone.
The lead single, "Like a Star" became a hit in the UK and US, and sold over 327,000 US downloads. The follow-up single "Put Your Records On
"Put Your Records On" is a song by English singer Corinne Bailey Rae from her self-titled debut studio album (2006). Written by Bailey Rae, John Beck, and Steve Chrisanthou, it was released as the album's second single in February and early Ma ...
", her biggest hit to date, rose to number two in the UK, and sold over 945,000 US downloads. "Trouble Sleeping
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" made the top forty, and " I'd Like To", the top seventy. In the middle of 2006, Bailey Rae embarked on her first international tour through Europe and North America with R&B singer John Legend, playing 55 shows including the festivals '' Rock in Rio Lisboa 2'' and '' Live Earth''. In early April 2006, ''Corinne Bailey Rae'' was certified 2× platinum by the BPI and platinum by the RIAA in December. In September 2006, Bailey Rae scooped two awards at the UK's MOBO Awards: "Best UK Newcomer" and "Best UK Female". Bailey Rae recorded a live session at Abbey Road Studios
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in July 2006 for '' Live from Abbey Road''.
Bailey Rae was the musical guest in a 2006 episode of ''Saturday Night Live
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'' with the host being Jaime Pressly. She performed "Put Your Records On" and "Like a Star". She also appeared on '' Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'' on the episode "B-12", which aired in November 2006, with Howie Mandel. She performed "Like a Star" and "Trouble Sleeping
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". Also in 2006, Bailey Rae performed on BBC Radio 1
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'' Live Lounge'' with the songs "Like a Star", a cover version of Editors' "Munich", and a cover version of Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack".
Bailey Rae also received three nominations at the 2007 Grammy Awards
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: Record of the Year, Song of the Year (both for "Put Your Records On
"Put Your Records On" is a song by English singer Corinne Bailey Rae from her self-titled debut studio album (2006). Written by Bailey Rae, John Beck, and Steve Chrisanthou, it was released as the album's second single in February and early Ma ...
"), and Best New Artist. During the ceremony, she performed "Like a Star" and joined John Legend and John Mayer in a collaborative performance, providing accompanying vocals to Legend's "Coming Home" and Mayer's "Gravity
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".
Also in 2007, Bailey Rae accepted an invitation to participate in '' Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino'' (Vanguard Records
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), where she contributed her version of Domino's "One Night (of Sin)". She also recorded John Lennon
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's "I'm Losing You" for Make Some Noise, Amnesty International
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's music venture. The song was also released on the 2007 John Lennon tribute album, " Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur". In July of that year, Bailey Rae performed at the UK leg of Live Earth at Wembley Stadium
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, London.
In 2008, "Like a Star" was nominated for a Grammy for Song of the Year. Bailey Rae won in two categories for Album of the Year Album of the Year, often abbreviated to AOTY, may refer to:
Awards
* ARIA Award for Album of the Year, Australia
* Brit Award for British Album of the Year, UK
* Grammy Award for Album of the Year, US
* Juno Award for Album of the Year, CA
* Lati ...
and Best Contemporary Jazz Album for her collaboration on '' River: The Joni Letters''. Also in 2008, she recorded a live session of "River" with Hancock at Abbey Road Studios
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in for Live from Abbey Road for Channel 4 which was broadcast on Series 2.
During the American and European tour, Bailey Rae recorded her first DVD with the title '' Live in London & New York''. The DVD was filmed in London and the bonus CD was recorded in New York.
2009–2011: ''The Sea'' and ''The Love EP''
Corinne Bailey Rae released her new album titled '' The Sea'' on 26 January 2010, four years after the release of her first album and almost two years following the death of her husband Jason Rae. The lead single " I'd Do It All Again" premiered on 25 November 2009 on '' Later... with Jools Holland''. The follow-up single "Closer" was added to Smooth Jazz Radio on 25 January, Urban AC on 1 February and AC radio in late February. The album's second single "Paris Nights and New York Mornings" went to Triple-A radio on 15 February. Around the release of the second album, Bailey Rae did a run of promotional shows in the UK, Europe and US, she embarked on her second world tour, The Sea Tour, with 82 concerts, and had a gross profit of US$19 million. The tour visited the UK, Europe, the US (Spring and Summer) Brazil, Argentina, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the Middle East. The tour began on 27 February 2010 in London and her last show was on 10 March 2011 in Korea. Her summer concert in London at Somerset House sold out, and she returned to London again in October to perform in Royal Festival Hall with Pete Lawrie as a supporting act.
In December 2009, Bailey Rae recorded a live performance in New York City that was broadcast in the summer of 2010 on the US television program '' Live From the Artists Den''.
On 2 June 2010, Bailey Rae appeared with Herbie Hancock
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, singing " Blackbird" in a concert honouring Paul McCartney
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in the East Room of the White House.
On 25 January 2011, Bailey Rae released an EP, '' The Love EP'', with five recordings of love songs, including Prince
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's " I Wanna Be Your Lover", Bob Marley
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's " Is This Love" and Paul McCartney & Wings' " My Love". The EP debuted at number 86 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and still managed the Top 20 in ''Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
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''. The EP has sold 15,000 copies in the U.S. The first single, " Is This Love", won Best R&B Performance at 54th Grammy Awards
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.
Bailey Rae made an appearance as a musical guest on ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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The fourth incarnation of the ...
'' on 28 October 2010, covering the Bob Marley
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song " Is This Love".
On 14 July 2011, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Leeds where she had studied as an undergraduate.
During an interview for the 2011 Mercury Awards, Bailey Rae revealed she is writing a follow-up album to her critically acclaimed ''The Sea''. She has uploaded many photos of herself in various studios recording music for the new album to her social media accounts.
In 2013, Bailey Rae was moved from Capitol Records to Virgin Records due to corporate restructuring as a result of their parent company being purchased by Universal Music Group
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in 2012.
2016–present: ''The Heart Speaks in Whispers'', "The Scientist" (''Fifty Shades Darker''), SummerStage and tour
On 14 February 2016, Bailey Rae presented her comeback into music by sharing a snippet of her new single. On 26 February, Bailey Rae announced the title of her third album, ''The Heart Speaks in Whispers
''The Heart Speaks in Whispers'' is the third studio album by English singer and songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, released on 13 May 2016 by Virgin EMI Records.
Critical reception
''The Heart Speaks in Whispers'' received generally positive re ...
'', which was released on 13 May 2016. The lead single off the album, " Been to the Moon", was also released.
''The Heart Speaks in Whispers
''The Heart Speaks in Whispers'' is the third studio album by English singer and songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, released on 13 May 2016 by Virgin EMI Records.
Critical reception
''The Heart Speaks in Whispers'' received generally positive re ...
'' debuted No. 2 on Billboard's R&B chart. Featuring "Been to the Moon", "The Skies Will Break" and "Green Aphrodisiac", NPR named it one of their favorite 30 albums of the year.
Recorded both at her studio in Leeds and in Los Angeles at Capitol Studios, the album was co-produced by Bailey Rae with Steve Brown, who collaborated on her critically acclaimed 2010 album The Sea, and features Paris and Amber Strother (KING), Esperanza Spalding, James Gadson Bill Withers, Pino Palladino (D'Angelo and The Vanguard), and Marcus Miller (Miles Davis
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, Herbie Hancock
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, Luther Vandross).
Bailey Rae was selected by NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...
for the DESTINATION: JUPITER campaign when Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter's orbit on 4 July; represented Europe for the International Olympic Committee
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's PSA Campaign; performed at various festivals in the UK and Europe, including Glastonbury
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; and was special guest supporting Stevie Wonder
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at his Hyde Park, London
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concert. President Barack Obama
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featured "Green Aphrodisiac" on his Spotify
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Summer "Night" Playlist.
On 17 November 2016, Bailey Rae joined other artists in tributes to Smokey Robinson
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at his 2016 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize award ceremony in Washington D.C.; she sang "Ooo Baby Baby
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The song has inspired numerous other cover versions by other artists over the years, including c ...
".
In 2017, Corinne Bailey Rae recorded "The Scientist" (originally recorded by Coldplay) for the opening title sequence for Universal Pictures
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' ''Fifty Shades Darker
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'' which opened 10 February. The track is featured on the ''Fifty Shades Darker'' Soundtrack, which released the same day.
In 2019, Bailey Rae was scheduled to perform on the main Center Park space at Capital One City Parks Foundation
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SummerStage festival in Central Park
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in June, along with Emily King
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, Big Freedia and other artists. She toured the UK, Europe and US during the same year, beginning from 2 June to 18 November.
Bailey Rae was invited to contribute a selection to a Tom Waits
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tribute album that was released in late 2019, '' Come On Up to the House: Women Sing Waits''. She chose to record " Jersey Girl", which is also associated with Bruce Springsteen
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who covered the song in 1984.
Other ventures
"Like a Star" is part of the soundtracks of several films, series and soap operas, such as ''Dynasty
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'', ''Cashmere Mafia
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'', '' 27 Dresses'', '' Men in Trees'', ''Nancy Drew
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'', '' Perfect Stranger'', ''Medium
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'', '' Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'', ''Venus
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'', '' Grey's Anatomy'', ''Criminal Minds
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'' and ''Sete Pecados
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''.
"Put Your Records On" appears in the 6th episode of the series '' By Any Means''.
In the film ''Venus
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'', six songs from the debut album were included on the soundtrack of the film, which are "I'd Like To", "Another Rainy Day", "Choux Pastry Heart", "Put Your Records On", "Like a Star", and "Breathless".
The song " I'd Like To", from Bailey Rae's debut album, was also featured in the soundtrack for the movie ''He's Just Not That Into You
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'' (2009). It can also be heard on an episode of ''CSI:NY''. Her song "Lucky One" is the title theme for '' Stan Lee's Lucky Man'', a 2016 production for Sky 1 television in the U.K.
Bailey Rae is the special ambassador for the charity Cord. She is also the central ambassador for the international water and sanitation charity Pump Aid
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.
In September 2012, she was featured in a campaign called "30 Songs/30 Days" to support '' Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide'', a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book.
Personal life
While at university, she began work as a hat check girl on an evening in her local jazz
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club, where she met Scotsman
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Jason Rae. When she married Rae in 2001, at the age of 22, she changed her name to Bailey Rae. Jason Rae (1976–2008), a musician, played saxophone
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...
for the eight-piece group called Haggis Horns. He also recorded on albums with his wife, Amy Winehouse, the New Mastersounds, and Martina Topley-Bird
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('' Quixotic'').
On 22 March 2008, Jason Rae was found dead in a flat in the Hyde Park area of Leeds. In December 2008, Leeds Coroner's Court gave a verdict of death by misadventure, and stated that Rae had died of an accidental overdose of methadone and alcohol. The methadone had been prescribed to a friend who was recovering from an addiction to heroin
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.
In 2013, Bailey Rae married her longtime friend, producer and jazz
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musician Steve Brown. As of September 2020, the couple have two daughters.
Discography
* '' Corinne Bailey Rae'' (2006)
* '' The Sea'' (2010)
* ''The Heart Speaks in Whispers
''The Heart Speaks in Whispers'' is the third studio album by English singer and songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, released on 13 May 2016 by Virgin EMI Records.
Critical reception
''The Heart Speaks in Whispers'' received generally positive re ...
'' (2016)
Filmography
Awards and nominations
Grammy Awards
The Grammy Award
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s are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Bailey Rae has won two awards from six nominations. She won Album of the Year Album of the Year, often abbreviated to AOTY, may refer to:
Awards
* ARIA Award for Album of the Year, Australia
* Brit Award for British Album of the Year, UK
* Grammy Award for Album of the Year, US
* Juno Award for Album of the Year, CA
* Lati ...
as a featured artist on Herbie Hancock
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's '' River: The Joni Letters''.
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, Best New Artist
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"Put Your Records On" is a song by English singer Corinne Bailey Rae from her self-titled debut studio album (2006). Written by Bailey Rae, John Beck, and Steve Chrisanthou, it was released as the album's second single in February and early Ma ...
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, Record of the Year
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, "Like a Star
"Like a Star" is a song by English singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, released as the lead single from her self-titled debut studio album (2006). It was written by Bailey Rae and produced by Steve Chrisanthou. The song was originally releas ...
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, '' River: The Joni Letters'' (featured artist)
, Album of the Year Album of the Year, often abbreviated to AOTY, may refer to:
Awards
* ARIA Award for Album of the Year, Australia
* Brit Award for British Album of the Year, UK
* Grammy Award for Album of the Year, US
* Juno Award for Album of the Year, CA
* Lati ...
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, " Is This Love"
, Best R&B Performance
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Others awards and nominations
References
External links
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Corinne Bailey Rae interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues & Soul' February 2010
''The Guardian'' interview 2009
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1979 births
Alumni of the University of Leeds
21st-century Black British women singers
British people of Saint Kitts and Nevis descent
Capitol Records artists
English Baptists
English women guitarists
English guitarists
British contemporary R&B singers
British songwriters
British soul singers
Grammy Award winners
Living people
Musicians from Leeds
Soul guitarists
British Plymouth Brethren
Ballad musicians
Neo soul singers