Grammy winner Corrine Bailey-Rae to spice things up at Saint Lucia Jazz 2010

Monday, February 1, 2010 – The Saint Lucia Tourist Board is well on its way to completing the 2010 Saint Lucia Jazz line-up with the inclusion of a phenomenal jazz singer.

British-born singer/songwriter and guitarist Corrine Bailey Rae is expected to impress patrons with her soulful and velvety vocals when she performs on main stage during the 2010 Festival. That’s according to Chairman of the SLTB’s Special Events Committee, Cuthbert Didier, who went on to say that the SLTB was indeed proud of the fact that, “we’ve managed to secure an artist of such unparalleled stature in the music industry.” “Corrine has recorded a number of hits and her upcoming album, The Sea, is even more exceptional as it shows her maturity in the wake of the death of her husband two years ago,” he continued.

“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,” Bailey Rae told the U.K.’s Observer Music Monthly, which hailed The Sea as “an extraordinarily intimate and impassioned album” in its recent cover story on her, which can be found at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/oct/04/corinne-bailey-rae-interview

Bailey Rae’s new album, The Sea, hits stores this week. It follows her self-titled debut album which has sold over 4 million copies worldwide since its release in 2006. She was the first British female singer-songwriter in decades to have her debut album enter The Billboard 200 in the Top 20. She was nominated for three GRAMMY awards that same year - "Record of The Year" and "Song of The Year" for her first single, "Put Your Records On," and "Best New Artist." Her remarkable performance on the 2007 GRAMMY Awards telecast propelled her album into the Top 5 of The Billboard 200. The following year, "Like A Star," her second single, was nominated for "Song Of The Year" and Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters, on which Bailey Rae sang the title track, won the GRAMMY for "Album Of The Year."

She has been in the United States promoting her new album through a series of television talk show appearances, which she ends on March 1st with a gig on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’.

Corrine Bailey Rae will perform on Saturday May 8th at Pigeon Island National Park. Boo Hinkson and Friends as well as Reggae greats Steel Pulse, will also perform on that day. She joins a Saint Lucia Jazz cast which also includes Maxi Priest, Shaggy, Claudia Edward, Foreigner, Jean Luc Ponty, Quito & the Edge, Carimi, Foreigner and Earl Klugh as well as Monty Maxwell, Alison Marquis, Harvey Millar, Claudia Edward, Carl Gustave and Teddyson (TJ) John.

Saint Lucia Jazz is the premier music festival in the region and has been rated fifth in the World. The Festival, which has attracted some of the biggest names in the music industry, will mark its 19th anniversary this year.

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