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b. 1979
Born in Leeds, Corinne Bailey Rae, 44, studied English at the University of Leeds. In 2006, she released her self-titled debut album, which became a UK No 1 and gave her the global hits Put Your Records On and Like a Star. She has two Grammy awards and two Mobos. Black Rainbows, her first album of new material in seven years, has just been released. She is married with two children and lives in Leeds.
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My mum, for the way that she brought up her three children and managed to make her money work. She worked as a cleaner for all these families we went to church with. She would cycle there with my little sister on the back of her bike – we didn’t have a car. She had an amazing mind for planning and organising so that we got to do ballet, we went to Brownies.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗
I remember being a teenager and writing this romantic short story in the style of the Brontës on a computer and I didn’t realise that the person whose computer it was could just print it out. A group of boys had a couple of pages and they were all reading it.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗
I’m not really ashamed, but I haven’t read Lord of the Rings.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗
I worked in a cafe, which I loved, but when it was quiet we had to scrape the fat out from between the tiles on the floor with a butter knife.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗
Listening to a song that my brother-in-law – the brother of Jason, my first husband – wrote, about how hard it was to live without his brother.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗
When my first husband died, because it felt like my life was over, and it was challenging to keep in life at the time.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗
My mum looks after our kids all the time, but on the very few weeks she takes time off, doing it all is a big juggle. My mum is a combination of Mary Poppins and Angela Davis, so I’d clone her.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗
All the big ones – climate change, safety for our children, money.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗
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