Initially coming to fame after a poll of critics had voted her "the sound of
2006", Corinne Bailey Rae justified the high expectations of her when her debut
album topped the UK album chart and quickly established her as an international
star. Born in Leeds to an English mother and a father from Saint Kitts, Bailey
Rae studied classical violin as a child and gained her love of singing from a
Brethren church, even singing Primal Scream covers in church. Her first band was
an all-female indie group called Helen, which was briefly signed to the heavy
metal label Roadrunner. She went ...