The Sea is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, released 20 January 2010 on EMI. It is the follow-up to her eponymous debut album and was conceived following her hiatus from recording, taken in the wake of her husband Jason Rae's death. Production for the album took place at Limefield Studios in Manchester, England during 2009 and was handled by Rae, Steve Brown, and Steve Chrisanthou. Incorporating musical elements of folk, pop, jazz, and rock music, The Sea features songs written by Rae both before and after her husband's death with themes of love, lament, and solace.

The album debuted at number five on the UK Albums Chart, selling 22,914 copies in its first week. It also entered at number seven on the US Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 53,000 copies. Upon its release, The Sea received generally positive reviews from most music critics. It was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry in February 2010, following shipments of 100,000 copies in the United Kingdom. , the album has sold 156,000 copies in the United States. It has been nominated for the 2010 Mercury Prize, which is awarded annually for the best album in the UK or Ireland.

Background

Following the multi-platinum and award-winning success of her eponymous debut album, Corinne Bailey Rae began to work on songs for a follow-up album at the end of 2007.Press release. . EMI. Retrieved on 2010-02-07. However, she took a hiatus from recording and the music scene after the death of Bailey Rae's husband, Scottish saxophonist Jason Rae, in March 2008 to an accidental overdose of methadone and alcohol. After months of grief and isolation, Rae revisited her work the following year and composed additional material for The Sea. Recording sessions for the album took place primarily at Limefield Studios in Manchester during 2009,O'Hagan, Sean. . The Observer. Retrieved on 2010-02-07. and production was handled by Rae with co-producers Steve Brown and Steve Chrisanthou. During the recording process, Rae listened to Curtis Mayfield's There's No Place Like America Today (1975) and Sly & the Family Stone's Fresh (1973), as well as the music of Nina Simone and Leonard Cohen. According to Rae, a live band was implemented in the album's recording, which was a departure from her debut album, stating "On the first album, it was me and a producer in a basement going though hundreds of snare drum sounds to find the right one. With a live band, you can stretch out more and try new things out without feeling you're having to undo this meticulously built-up track". In an interview with Pete Lewis of Blues & Soul, Rae discussed the album's title and its significance to the music, stating:

The Sea contains songs written before and after Jason Rae's death.Maerz, Melissa. . The New York Times. Retrieved on 2010-02-06. According to Rae, most of the songs carry personal themes. In an interview with NME, Bailey Rae discussed process of making music, particularly the song "Are You Here", which deals with her grief over her husband's death, stating "I feel like I've been playing music and writing and using music to help me with all the different emotions that I've been feeling. When I started writing that I was thinking, 'I don't really want this song to go into the world, 'cause it's so naked…' But I had to".Columnist. . NME. Retrieved on 2010-02-07. In an interview with The Observers Sean O'Hagan, Rae discussed the effects of her husband's death on her musical style and the songs written before and after her hiatus, stating "What surprises me most is how the songs I wrote before it happened resonate almost as much as the ones I wrote after. The circumstances have cast it all in a different light. It began as a 'before and after' record, but it's become an 'after' record". On the song "I Would Like to Call it Beauty", Rae discussed its theme of finding beauty in the "darkest times" and its relationship with The Sea, stating "There is something miraculous that pushes you along, makes you keep going, makes you carry on. It's really about the mystery of that. In fact, the whole album is about that in a way; it's about loss but it's also about hope, about keeping going and trying to find that beauty".

Release and promotion

The Sea was initially released on 20 January 2010 in Japan through EMI Music Japan.. EMI Music Japan. Retrieved on 2010-02-07. Its release in the United States followed on 26 January 2010 through Capitol Records,Columnist. . StarPulse. Retrieved on 2010-02-07. and in the United Kingdom on 1 February 2010 through EMI.Columnist. . NME. Retrieved on 2010-02-07. The album was also released in Brazil on 15 February 2010 through EMI.. Livraria Cultura. Retrieved on 2010-02-07. The album was offered free of charge with a subscription to Q magazine, ending 15 April 2010.. GreatMagazines/Bauer Media. Retrieved on 2010-02-07.

Rae presented material from The Sea along with her earlier songs on November 23, 2009 performance at The Tabernacle in London, her first complete gig since her hiatus from the music scene.Sutherland, Mark. . The Independent. Retrieved on 2010-02-07. Music critics that reviewed the performance perceived a grittier, organic sound and singing, with more soul and jazz influences and darker, more personal themes than Rae's previous work.Columnist. . The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved on 2010-02-07.Empire, Kitty. . The Observer. Retrieved on 2010-02-07.Pearson, Nick. . Evening Standard. Retrieved on 2010-02-07. Rae also showcased songs from the album on December 7, 2009 at New York City's Hiro Ballroom.Caramanica, Jon. . The New York Times. Retrieved on 2010-02-07. The performance was recorded for the public television series Live from the Artists Den. She also previewed the album at Joe's Pub on December 9, 2009, with ticket sales benefiting Pump Aid.. Gotham Jazz. Retrieved on 2010-02-07. The album's supporting tour, The Sea Tour, began its European leg on 27 February 2010 in London, and featured singer-songwriter Daniel Merriweather as Rae's opening act. It is set to begin its North American leg on 9 April 2010.. Singersroom. Retrieved on 2010-03-07.

Three singles were released in promotion of the album.. Allmusic. Retrieved on 2010-04-18. Its first single "I'd Do It All Again" was released 12 January 2010. The album's second single, "Paris Nights/New York Mornings", was released 29 March 2010. Retrieved on 2010-07-16 It spent three weeks on the Japan Hot 100, peaking at number 31.. Billboard. Retrieved on 2010-04-18. "Closer" was issued to radio on 25 January 2010 in the United States.Weston, Alonzo. . The News-Press. Retrieved on 2010-04-18. It spent 15 weeks and peaked at number 31 on the US R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart,. Billboard. Retrieved on 2010-04-18. and it spent six weeks and peaked at number 20 on the US Jazz Songs chart.. Billboard. Retrieved on 2010-04-18. "Closer" will be released as the album's third single on 2 August 2010. Retrieved on 2010-07-16 Retrieved on 2010-07-16. Radio 1. Retrieved 2010-07-14.

Reception

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number five on the UK Albums Chart with first week sales of 22,914 copies.. The Official UK Charts Company. Retrieved on 2010-02-07.admn. . WotYouGot. Retrieved on 2010-03-22. It dropped to number 15 in its second week on the chart.Wightman, Catriona. . Digital Spy. Retrieved on 2010-02-15. In the United States, The Sea debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 53,000 copies in its first week.Caulfield, Keith. . Billboard. Retrieved on 2010-02-03. It fell to number 23 and sold 25,000 more copies in its second week on the chart.Kaufman, Gil. . MTV. Retrieved on 2010-04-17. The album also entered at number two on Billboards R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and at number three on its Digital Albums chart in the week of February 13, 2010.. Billboard. Retrieved on 2010-02-07.. Billboard. Retrieved on 2010-01-07. In Canada, the album debuted at number 13 on the Top 100 Albums chart in the week ending 4 February 2010.. Jam!. Retrieved on 2010-02-08. It entered at number 36 in the Netherlands and at number 33 in Ireland.. acharts. Retrieved on 2010-02-07. On 19 February 2010, the album was certified gold in sales by the British Phonographic Industry, following shipments in excess of 100,000 copies in the UK. , it has sold 156,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.Shriver, Jerry. . USA Today. Retrieved on 2010-04-17.

Critical response

The Sea received generally positive reviews from most music critics.. Metacritic. Retrieved on 2010-01-28. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77, based on 20 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Critics viewed it as a sign of artistic growth and maturity for Rae.Jeffries, David. . Allmusic. Retrieved on 2010-01-27.Godfrey, Sarah. . The Washington Post. Retrieved on 2010-01-27.Moon, Tom. . NPR. Retrieved on 2010-01-31.LaBate, Steve. . Paste. Retrieved on 2010-01-29. Allmusic writer David Jeffries gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and called it "a testament to Rae’s artistic growth". Annie Moss of The Leeds Guide wrote "Rae has emerged sombre yet defiant with a stunning record that rises above expectation".Moss, Annie. . The Leeds Guide. Retrieved on 2010-01-28. Paul Lester of BBC Online praised its sound and commended Rae for her lyrical depth.Lester, Paul. . BBC Online. Retrieved on 2010-01-27. The Observers Kitty Empire called it "saturated in feeling and graced by superior musicianship", writing that Rae's songwriting and singing have "acquired reflective, ghostly soul".Empire, Kitty. . The Observer. Retrieved on 2010-01-30. Entertainment Weeklys Simon Vozick-Levinson called her voice "as eloquent an instrument as ever".Vozick-Levinson, Simon. . Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2010-01-27. Boston Herald critic Jed Gottlieb gave The Sea a B+ rating and called it a "soulful record that recalls Carole King as much as Aretha".Gottlieb, Jed. . Boston Herald. Retrieved on 2010-01-30. Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian stated "Rae has made an album she'll have trouble bettering".Sullivan, Caroline. . The Guardian. Retrieved on 2010-01-28. The New Zealand Heralds Jacqueline Smith gave the album 4 out of 4 stars and commended Rae's "honest emotion".Smith, Jacqueline. . The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved on 2010-02-07. Alastair McKay of Uncut stated " has taken on board the way Nina Simone could flick a switch between absent-minded harmonising and entering the abyss".McKay, Alastair. . Uncut. Retrieved on 2010-02-03. New York Daily News writer Jim Farber viewed that her "vocal twists and turns sound magically organic", and wrote that The Sea "boasts an unusually crisp sound".Farber, Jim. . New York Daily News. Retrieved on 2010-02-03.

However, Slant Magazine's Nick Day described it as "simultaneously intimate and frustratingly opaque" and viewed its music as "unmemorable".Day, Nick. . Slant Magazine. Retrieved on 2010-01-27. Despite commending Rae for her singing, Hot Press critic Patrick Freyne gave it a rating of 1.5/5 in a negative review, perceiving session musicians' contributions and "excessive tastefulness" to the album as a significant weakness.Freyne, Patrick. "". Hot Press: 20 January 2010. Freyne explained, writing "the record is elsewhere over-run with session musicians. Technically proficient but too often unburdened by human souls, session musicians spent much of the twentieth century digesting the ‘hard bits’ of pop before regurgitating it all in music that didn’t need hard bits in the first place. This phenomenon might be described as the ‘plague’ of session musicians." Digital Spy critic Mayer Nissim gave it 3 out of 5 stars and wrote that it "shows real growth for Rae as a songwriter and musician", but viewed its "smooth production" as a flaw.Nissim, Mayer. . Digital Spy. Retrieved on 2010-01-27. In a mixed review, The Observers Graeme Thompson wrote that the album "is capable of being dull and flat, but at its most winning it provides glimpses of a new horizon shining beyond the riptides of pain and sorrow".Thompson, Graeme. . The Observer. Retrieved on 2010-01-27. Spins Mikael Wood called it "a darker, grittier effort suffused with a kind of shell-shocked melancholy", writing "Rae is most compelling when trying to distract herself from her loss".Wood, Mikael. . Spin. Retrieved on 2010-01-28. Will Hermes of Rolling Stone gave it 3½ out of 5 stars and called it "both reckoning and rebirth".Hermes, Will. . Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2010-02-01.

Rob Watson of MusicOMH gave the album 4½ out of 5 stars and called it "a dense, lush and muti-faceted record, with Rae's melodic sensibilities mixing with much darker jazz and rock influences, and her carefree spirit tempered with a much more meditative approach".Watson, Rob. . MusicOMH. Retrieved on 2010-01-27. The Independents Andy Gill compared the album to the work of Laura Nyro, Marvin Gaye, and Joni Mitchell.Gill, Andy. . The Independent. Retrieved on 2010-01-28. The Daily Telegraph, The Belfast Telegraph, and The Sunday Times gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and lauded its personal lyrical nature.Cairns, Dan. . The Sunday Times. Retrieved on 2010-01-30.Brown, Helen. . The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved on 2010-01-29.Columnist. . The Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved on 2010-01-29. Craig McLean of The Daily Telegraph called it "the intense and moving result" of Rae's hiatus and described it as "an album that suggests Nina Simone singing a modern version of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks".McLean, Craig. . The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved on 2010-01-29. In comparing it to Rae's debut album, Ken Capobianco of The Boston Globe described The Sea as "richer, much less accessible, and marked by a sense of loss and introspection".Capobianco, Ken. . The Boston Globe. Retrieved on 2010-01-27. Steve Leftridge of PopMatters also found it "richer" than Rae's debut with a "darker and more sophisticated sonic palette", and wrote "The Sea often captures the debut’s languorous delivery, yet the adult-contemporary coffee-house vibe has given way to deeper grooves, sonorous landscapes, and contemplative, poetic imagery".Leftridge, Steve. . PopMatters. Retrieved on 2010-02-24. Newsdays Glen Gamboa gave the album an A rating and called it "far heavier, more substantial" than Rae's debut album.Gamboa, Glenn. . Newsday. Retrieved on 2010-02-07. Evening Standard writer John Aizlewood gave it 4 out of 4 stars and viewed the sense of loss in its themes as "allied to a musical adventurism which banishes for ever the blander aspects of her debut".Aizlewood, John. . Evening Standard. Retrieved on 2010-02-01. USA Todays Elysa Gardner perceived Rae as "more pensive" and "soulful" on The Sea than on her debut album.Gardner, Elysa. . USA Today. Retrieved on 2010-01-31. Los Angeles Times writer Ann Powers wrote "The Sea is a remarkable accomplishment. It's a step toward something--Rae's inner peace, and her next artistic breakthrough--that has its own considerable rewards".Powers, Ann. . Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on 2010-01-27.

Accolades

The Sea has been nominated for the 2010 Mercury Prize, which is awarded annually for the best album in the UK or Ireland.Jonze, Tim. . The Guardian. Retrieved on 2010-07-23.

Personnel

Credits for The Sea adapted from Allmusic.. Allmusic. Retrieved on 2010-01-27.

* Steve Brown – co-producer

* Steve Chrisanthou – co-producer

* Rob Cremona – additional guitars and keyboards

* Alex Cowper – artwork, design

* Tom Elmhirst – mixing

* Tierney Gearon – photography

* Corinne Bailey Rae – producer

* Ray Staff – mastering

* Xavier Stephenson – mixing assistant

Chart history

Chart positions

Year-end charts

Sales and certifications

Release history

References

Artist/Band Information

Corinne Bailey Rae (born Corinne Jacqueline Bailey on 26 February 1979) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist from Leeds, who released her debut album Corinne Bailey Rae in February 2006.

Bailey Rae was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2006 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2006. She became the fourth female British act in history to have her first album debut at number one. Bailey Rae was nominated for Grammy Awards and BRIT Awards, and has won two MOBO Awards and an Album Of The Year Grammy and Best Contemporary Jazz Album for her work as a featured artist in Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters. Bailey Rae was married to fellow musician Jason Rae from 2001 until his death in 2008. Bailey Rae released her second album, The Sea on 26 January 2010, after a hiatus of nearly two years. Tracks on the new album have been produced by Steve Brown and also Steve Chrisanthou (who produced her debut album in 2006). She has sold 4 million albums, with her two albums combined, worldwide. Bailey Rae was nominated for the 2010 Mercury Prize for Album of the Year for The Sea.

Early years

Childhood

Bailey Rae was born in Leeds to a Kittitian father and an English mother as the oldest of three daughters, including Candice Bailey and actress Rhea Bailey.

Bailey 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 says in reference to her multiracial background. "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. It was always my favourite part of the service, the singing."

Bailey Rae later transferred to a Baptist church, where the youth leader was coaching rock bands in the local high school. The church young people wrote their own worship songs and sang covers by the likes of Primal Scream. "We changed the words though," Bailey Rae states on her website. "We didn't want to offend the regular churchgoers, now did we?" She recorded two albums with the youth group under the name of 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 for her first guitar. In her mid-teens, she was highly influenced by Lenny Kravitz, and through him she discovered rock legends Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. "I loved that band during my teens; I wanted, somehow, to follow in their footsteps, and to create music of my own."

Bailey Rae formed an all-female (barring the drummer) indie group called Helen, which was inspired by similar acts such as Veruca Salt and L7. "It was the first time I'd seen women with guitars. They were kinda sexy—but feminist. 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. The moniker "Helen" also drew attention, albeit for not all the right reasons: "What can I say? We were 15 years old, and thought that Helen was a cheeky, indie kind of thing to do. It seemed clever at the time. Admittedly, it seems less so now".

The group played many gigs around Leeds and eventually became the first indie act to be signed to heavy metal record label Roadrunner Records, home to acts such as Slipknot, in 1995. The venture proved to be short-lived however after the bassist became pregnant and the group disbanded. " Disappointed? I was gutted! I had no idea what to do next".

University life

Bailey Rae studied English Literature at the University of Leeds where she graduated in 2000. While at University, she began work as a hat check girl on an evening in her local jazz club. Permitted to sing on stage with the jazz band when business was slow, it was there that she discovered a different type of music that sent her on a different musical path: "I kept hearing this jazz and soul stuff and I realized I loved music too".

Marriage

Corinne Bailey met Scottish-born Jason Rae in a jazz club in Leeds where she had a part-time job as a cloakroom attendant, BBC News, 24 March 2008.. She married him 2001 at the age of twenty-two and changed her name to Bailey Rae. Jason Rae (born in 1976), a musician, played saxophone for the eight-piece group called Haggis Horns, and had recorded with Bailey Rae, The New Mastersounds and Martina Topley-Bird (Quixotic) albums. On March 22 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 died of an accidental overdose of methadone and alcohol. BBC, 22 December 2008

Music career

2004–2008: Career music development

In the three years after she got married, 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 group The New Mastersounds on the track "Your Love Is Mine," featured on their 2003 album Be Yourself, released via One Note Records. The following year she again worked with another Leeds-based group, , on the song "Come the Revolution", which was the first single from the group's debut album.

Corinne Bailey Rae B&W.jpgthumb200pxleftCorinne Bailey Rae performing live at the V Festival on 18 August 2007

In 2004, Bailey Rae got a breakthrough when she was signed by 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", 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, the album sold 1.9 million copies in the United States alone.http

The lead single, "Like a Star" became a hit in the UK and U.S., and sold over 327,000 U.S. downloads. Follow-up single "Put Your Records On", her biggest hit to date, rose to number two in the UK, and sold over 945,000 U.S. downloads. "Trouble Sleeping" 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 singer R&B, 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 2x platinum by the BPIEnter Corinne Bailey Rae in the search field 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 in July 2006 for Live from Abbey Road.

Bailey Rae was the musical guest in a 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live 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 of 2006, with Howie Mandel. She performed "Like a Star" and "Trouble Sleeping". Also in 2006, Bailey Rae performed on BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge with the songs "Like a Star", a cover version of Editors' "Munich", and a cover version of Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack".; www.bbc.co.uk.

Bailey Rae also received three nominations at the 2007 Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year (both for "Put Your Records On"), 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".

Also in 2007, Bailey Rae accepted an invitation to participate Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard Records), where she contributed her version of Domino's "One Night (of Sin)". She also recorded John Lennon's "I'm Losing You" for Make Some Noise, Amnesty International'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, 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 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 in for Live from Abbey Road for Channel 4 which was broadcast on Series 2.Paul Cashmere, ; www.undercover.fm.

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–present: The Sea

Corinne Bailey Rae released her new album titled The Sea on 26 January 2010. The album was released after a gap of two years following the death of her husband Jason Rae. Lead single I'd Do It All Again premiered on 25 November in 2009 on the Jools Holland program Later.http 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.httphttp After the release of the second album, Corinne went on a national tour. Her London concert at Somerset House in the summer 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 U.S. TV program Live From the Artists Den.http

On June 2, 2010, Bailey Rae appeared with Herbie Hancock, singing "Blackbird" in a concert honoring (Sir) Paul McCartney in the East Room at the White House.

Bailey Rae made an appearance as a musical guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on October 28, 2010, covering the Bob Marley song "Is This Love".

Soundtrack Inclusions

"Like a Star" is part of the soundtracks of several films, series and soap operas, such as Cashmere Mafia, 27 Dresses, Men in Trees, Nancy Drew, Perfect Stranger, Medium, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Venus, Grey's Anatomy, and Sete Pecados.

In the film Venus, 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", " 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 (2009).

It can also be heard on an episode of CSI:NY

Public Service

Bailey Rae is the Special Ambassador for the charity CORD. Bailey Rae is also the central ambassador for International water and Sanitation charity, Pump Aid.

Discography

;Studio albums

* 2006: Corinne Bailey Rae

* 2010: The Sea

;EPs

* 2011: The Love EP

;DVDs

* 2007: Live in London & New York

;Concert tours

* 2006/2007: World Tour

* 2010/2011: The Sea Tour

Awards and nominations

Grammy Awards

Corinne Bailey Rae.jpgthumb300pxrightRae at the 2009 MOJO Awards

The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Bailey Rae has won two awards from four nominations, including Album of the Year; she featured artist, Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year.

Notes

Closer can be heard in an episode of Hawaii Five-0.

"Put Your Records On" was featured on the Parenthood (television soundtrack) in August, 2010.

References