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Corinne Bailey Rae: Like A Butterfly
莺歌燕舞，摇滚电音，听得久了，会不会忽然觉得有点索然无味，甚至令你浮躁不安？记得还是大学那会听电台的音乐节目，偶然听到了Norah Jones那舒缓感性的嗓音，才知道原来有一种音乐可以让人充分享受铅华洗尽的闲适与安静。喜欢爵士乐带来的那种慵懒沧桑而又玩味深沉的感觉，喜欢爵士歌手们朦胧忧郁地浅吟低唱。
当我第一次听Corinne Bailey Rae的成名曲Like A Star时，脑海里马上蹦出一个词——慵懒！不想再赘言赞美她如泉水般舒服自然清澈的嗓音，因为于我而言，Corinne最吸引我的就是这种慵懒洒脱的感觉。恬淡不加任何修饰的嗓音，可以让你在一个休闲的周末细细聆听一下午，你阻塞的耳朵将得到彻底冲洗，重新呼吸到音乐的本质。
——Tracy
Corinne Bailey Rae: this singer/song writer
thought her voice wasn’t big enough to be heard, but she found a way to get the world to listen.
Bob Miller, manager for Corinne Bailey Rae, 1)laments the singer didn’t get noticed by record companies when she was 17.
“That smile of hers 2)was behind every song she sang 10 years ago,” Bob said, “The music industry is so blind to those things. They’re so 3)obsessed with 4)packaging, with direction. Nine years ago, a major record company should have gone, ÔYou know what, Bob? Let’s get this first record 5)out of the way because she’s going to be great.’”
Now, unlike a decade ago, Rae can 6)arguably be described as the biggest new artist. She 7)debuted at No. 1 on the U.K. charts in 2006, making her the third female artist to do so in history.
And unlike so many U.K. artists 8)from Robbie Williams on down, she’s made an immediate impact in the United States. She’s said that every country 9)likens her to an artist from that region and she’s amused by it. Here in the States, the common 10)comparisons are 11)Norah Jones and 12)Billie Holiday.
Her self-titled debut CD was released earlier last year in Bri-tain and shot straight to No. 1. The first singles, Like a Star and Put Your Records On, which she wrote and co-wrote 13)respectively, are 14)gems. A smooth 15)jazzy start sets the pace for a romantic and emotionally fulfilling listen. Corinne Bailey has a sweet schoolgirl voice in Like a Star and her 16)range goes from 17)vulnerable to powerfully sexy in Put Your Records On. It’s her voice that floats up effortlessly, full of 18)tenderness, 19)subtlety and the very purest quality that is the star. Her music has drawn all kinds of comparisons, but Rae is firmly resolved to find her own musical path.
Bailey Rae has been interested in making her own music since she was 15, when she started an 20)indie-rock band called Helen with friends from school in her native England.
The name may have been 21)prosaic, but local success quickly led to an offer of a deal from the home of 22)Slipknot, 23)Roadrunner Records. But just before they signed, the band’s 24)bassist unexpectedly fell 25)pregnant, 26)scuppering Helen’s dreams and sending Bailey Rae back to the everyday realities of studying for a degree in English and, more 27)pertinent to her music career, working part-time as a 28)cloakroom 29)attendant in a jazz club. There, eventually, she began to take turns on the stage herself.
Bailey Rae’s musical journey may have been a 30)winding one, but it helped to 31)nurture her into something quite special.
Many women have claimed Bailey Rae’s first single off her 32)album, Put Your Records On, as an 33)anthem for themselves, something that shocks her.
“I’m happy that people feel that way about the song,” she says. “I think it’s something I wish someone had said to me when I was a lot younger. You can spend a lot of years trying to fit in with everybody, that’s what the song’s about, the more you try and fit in with everyone, the more they change. They’ll 34)be on to something else as soon as you’ve caught up with whatever the 35)in thing is, so it’s much easier, it’s kind of better, to just be yourself and to enjoy that.”
It seems that Bailey Rae has come around at just the right time; the pop charts have switched from 36)manufactured pop 37)tartlets (like Britney Spears) to more singer/songwriters (such as Bailey Rae, and fellow Brit, 38)KT Tunstall). Bailey Rae says being in music for as long as she has, she recognizes that popular music seems to be a 39)cyclical machine, and that this time, she just happened to be doing the right kind of music when the wheel turned to singer/songwriters again.
The feeling of success is still new to Corinne Bailey Rae, but even had it never arrived, she says she would still be singing.
“I think I love music, and even if I hadn’t become real well-known and the album hadn’t done so well, I would still do music,” the British soul singer tells.
“The success doesn’t scare me because I feel like I’ve been involved in music for a long time now. I guess it puts quite a bit of pressure on my second album, coming both from others and from myself, but I’m trying not to see it like that. I never put pressure on myself for this record. I just wanted it to be as good as it could be.”
科琳·贝利·雷，这位创作歌手觉得自己的嗓音不够响亮，难以被听众听到，然而她却找到了一种方式让全世界聆听她唱歌。
科琳·贝利·雷的经纪人鲍勃·米勒为这位歌手在17岁时没有得到唱片公司的赏识而感到遗憾。
“10年前，她为自己唱的每首歌绽放笑容。” 鲍勃说，“但唱片界对这些却熟视无睹。他们只关注包装和潮流。9年前，理应有一家大型唱片公司这样说，‘鲍勃啊，不如让我们为她制作第一张与众不同的唱片吧，她一定会脱颖而出的。’”
时至今日，不再如10年前，雷已无可争议地被评价为一名声势最凌厉的新艺人。她的首张专辑，一经推出便立刻登上了2006年英国专辑榜的冠军宝座，成为历史上第3位创下如此骄人成绩的女歌手。
并不像诸如罗比·威廉斯这些众多的英国歌手一样，她一亮相立刻在美国引起了轰动。她说每个国家的歌迷都把她比作当地的某位歌手，对此她感到很开心。现在雷在美国通常被拿来和诺拉·琼丝以及比莉·哈乐黛做比较。
她的首张同名专辑去年年初在英国一发行，便立即冲上销售榜的第一位。首播单曲《像一颗流星》以及《聆听你的歌》得到了广泛的好评，这两首歌分别是她独立创作以及与人合作创作的。专辑一开场便以一曲流畅的爵士乐为序，带我们进入一段浪漫且深情伴随的聆听之旅。在《像一颗流星》里科琳·贝利的嗓音如校园女生般甜美。而她的声线在《聆听你的歌》里不再柔弱，而是一种魅力四射的性感嗓音。她慵懒的嗓音飘浮在空气中，柔情弥漫，恬淡纯净。正是这种嗓音让她脱颖而出，受人关注。虽然她的音乐引发了众多比较，但雷坚持寻找自己的音乐之路。
还在15岁的时候，贝利·雷就开始热衷于创作自己的音乐。当时她与英格兰家乡的朋友们组成了一支独立摇滚乐队—海伦乐队。
海伦乐队这个原本平淡无奇的名字，马上在当地窜红，并且引起了活结乐队的东家—跑路者唱片公司的关注，并向乐队递上了合约。但就在乐队准备签约前，乐队的贝斯手却意外怀孕了，这毁灭了海伦乐队的音乐梦想，贝利·雷不得不重返校园，继续进修攻读英国文学学士学位。这期间她在一家爵士俱乐部当起了衣帽间的招待员，这份兼职拓展了她的音乐触角。最后就在这间俱乐部，她开始重返舞台了。
贝利·雷的音乐之路也许算是坎坷曲折的，但这也赋予了她一些与众不同的特质。
许多女歌迷认为贝利·雷专辑里的首支单曲《聆听你的歌》似乎就是为自己而唱，能恰当地反映她们的心声。这让贝利感到无比雀跃。
“我很高兴，人们能这样去感受这首歌曲，”她说道，“我想这些话正是我很小的时候希望有人对我说的。你可以花费很多年的时间去努力适应别人，你努力得越多，适应得越多，人们会改变得越快。这便是这首歌的主题。当你追赶上潮流的时候，人们又开始迷上其他潮流了。所以保持自己的特色，并且享受这一过程会更加容易，而且感觉更好。
贝利·雷的转运似乎是恰当时候。流行音乐榜已经把注意力从大量打造的流行甜姐们身上（比如小甜甜布兰妮·斯皮尔斯），转到了更多的创作歌手身上，诸如贝利·雷、以及同是英国歌手的凯蒂·彤斯朵。贝利·雷称自己涉足音乐界已有很长一段时间了，她意识到流行音乐似乎只是一个不断循环的机器，而此时，当转盘再次指向创作歌手时，她恰好在创作着大家需要的音乐。
成功的感觉对于科琳·贝利·雷而言还是那样新奇，但是她说即使成功永远不降临，她还是会坚持唱下去的。
“我想我是爱音乐的，即使我没有成名，专辑没有大卖，我还是会坚持做音乐。”这位英国的灵魂乐歌手这样说道。
“成功不会吓倒我，因为我感觉迄今为止自己已经投身音乐很长时间了。我想目前的成功会给我的第二张专辑带来些许压力，这些压力来自外界，同时也来自我自身，但我一直在努力不这么想。我制作第一张专辑时从未给自己施压，当时我只是尽我所能做好它。”
Corinne Bailey Rae: Like A Butterfly
莺歌燕舞，摇滚电音，听得久了，会不会忽然觉得有点索然无味，甚至令你浮躁不安？记得还是大学那会听电台的音乐节目，偶然听到了Norah Jones那舒缓感性的嗓音，才知道原来有一种音乐可以让人充分享受铅华洗尽的闲适与安静。喜欢爵士乐带来的那种慵懒沧桑而又玩味深沉的感觉，喜欢爵士歌手们朦胧忧郁地浅吟低唱。
当我第一次听Corinne Bailey Rae的成名曲Like A Star时，脑海里马上蹦出一个词——慵懒！不想再赘言赞美她如泉水般舒服自然清澈的嗓音，因为于我而言，Corinne最吸引我的就是这种慵懒洒脱的感觉。恬淡不加任何修饰的嗓音，可以让你在一个休闲的周末细细聆听一下午，你阻塞的耳朵将得到彻底冲洗，重新呼吸到音乐的本质。
——Tracy
Corinne Bailey Rae: this singer/song writer
thought her voice wasn’t big enough to be heard, but she found a way to get the world to listen.
Bob Miller, manager for Corinne Bailey Rae, 1)laments the singer didn’t get noticed by record companies when she was 17.
“That smile of hers 2)was behind every song she sang 10 years ago,” Bob said, “The music industry is so blind to those things. They’re so 3)obsessed with 4)packaging, with direction. Nine years ago, a major record company should have gone, ÔYou know what, Bob? Let’s get this first record 5)out of the way because she’s going to be great.’”
Now, unlike a decade ago, Rae can 6)arguably be described as the biggest new artist. She 7)debuted at No. 1 on the U.K. charts in 2006, making her the third female artist to do so in history.
And unlike so many U.K. artists 8)from Robbie Williams on down, she’s made an immediate impact in the United States. She’s said that every country 9)likens her to an artist from that region and she’s amused by it. Here in the States, the common 10)comparisons are 11)Norah Jones and 12)Billie Holiday.
Her self-titled debut CD was released earlier last year in Bri-tain and shot straight to No. 1. The first singles, Like a Star and Put Your Records On, which she wrote and co-wrote 13)respectively, are 14)gems. A smooth 15)jazzy start sets the pace for a romantic and emotionally fulfilling listen. Corinne Bailey has a sweet schoolgirl voice in Like a Star and her 16)range goes from 17)vulnerable to powerfully sexy in Put Your Records On. It’s her voice that floats up effortlessly, full of 18)tenderness, 19)subtlety and the very purest quality that is the star. Her music has drawn all kinds of comparisons, but Rae is firmly resolved to find her own musical path.
Bailey Rae has been interested in making her own music since she was 15, when she started an 20)indie-rock band called Helen with friends from school in her native England.
The name may have been 21)prosaic, but local success quickly led to an offer of a deal from the home of 22)Slipknot, 23)Roadrunner Records. But just before they signed, the band’s 24)bassist unexpectedly fell 25)pregnant, 26)scuppering Helen’s dreams and sending Bailey Rae back to the everyday realities of studying for a degree in English and, more 27)pertinent to her music career, working part-time as a 28)cloakroom 29)attendant in a jazz club. There, eventually, she began to take turns on the stage herself.
Bailey Rae’s musical journey may have been a 30)winding one, but it helped to 31)nurture her into something quite special.
Many women have claimed Bailey Rae’s first single off her 32)album, Put Your Records On, as an 33)anthem for themselves, something that shocks her.
“I’m happy that people feel that way about the song,” she says. “I think it’s something I wish someone had said to me when I was a lot younger. You can spend a lot of years trying to fit in with everybody, that’s what the song’s about, the more you try and fit in with everyone, the more they change. They’ll 34)be on to something else as soon as you’ve caught up with whatever the 35)in thing is, so it’s much easier, it’s kind of better, to just be yourself and to enjoy that.”
It seems that Bailey Rae has come around at just the right time; the pop charts have switched from 36)manufactured pop 37)tartlets (like Britney Spears) to more singer/songwriters (such as Bailey Rae, and fellow Brit, 38)KT Tunstall). Bailey Rae says being in music for as long as she has, she recognizes that popular music seems to be a 39)cyclical machine, and that this time, she just happened to be doing the right kind of music when the wheel turned to singer/songwriters again.
The feeling of success is still new to Corinne Bailey Rae, but even had it never arrived, she says she would still be singing.
“I think I love music, and even if I hadn’t become real well-known and the album hadn’t done so well, I would still do music,” the British soul singer tells.
“The success doesn’t scare me because I feel like I’ve been involved in music for a long time now. I guess it puts quite a bit of pressure on my second album, coming both from others and from myself, but I’m trying not to see it like that. I never put pressure on myself for this record. I just wanted it to be as good as it could be.”
科琳·贝利·雷，这位创作歌手觉得自己的嗓音不够响亮，难以被听众听到，然而她却找到了一种方式让全世界聆听她唱歌。
科琳·贝利·雷的经纪人鲍勃·米勒为这位歌手在17岁时没有得到唱片公司的赏识而感到遗憾。
“10年前，她为自己唱的每首歌绽放笑容。” 鲍勃说，“但唱片界对这些却熟视无睹。他们只关注包装和潮流。9年前，理应有一家大型唱片公司这样说，‘鲍勃啊，不如让我们为她制作第一张与众不同的唱片吧，她一定会脱颖而出的。’”
时至今日，不再如10年前，雷已无可争议地被评价为一名声势最凌厉的新艺人。她的首张专辑，一经推出便立刻登上了2006年英国专辑榜的冠军宝座，成为历史上第3位创下如此骄人成绩的女歌手。
并不像诸如罗比·威廉斯这些众多的英国歌手一样，她一亮相立刻在美国引起了轰动。她说每个国家的歌迷都把她比作当地的某位歌手，对此她感到很开心。现在雷在美国通常被拿来和诺拉·琼丝以及比莉·哈乐黛做比较。
她的首张同名专辑去年年初在英国一发行，便立即冲上销售榜的第一位。首播单曲《像一颗流星》以及《聆听你的歌》得到了广泛的好评，这两首歌分别是她独立创作以及与人合作创作的。专辑一开场便以一曲流畅的爵士乐为序，带我们进入一段浪漫且深情伴随的聆听之旅。在《像一颗流星》里科琳·贝利的嗓音如校园女生般甜美。而她的声线在《聆听你的歌》里不再柔弱，而是一种魅力四射的性感嗓音。她慵懒的嗓音飘浮在空气中，柔情弥漫，恬淡纯净。正是这种嗓音让她脱颖而出，受人关注。虽然她的音乐引发了众多比较，但雷坚持寻找自己的音乐之路。
还在15岁的时候，贝利·雷就开始热衷于创作自己的音乐。当时她与英格兰家乡的朋友们组成了一支独立摇滚乐队—海伦乐队。
海伦乐队这个原本平淡无奇的名字，马上在当地窜红，并且引起了活结乐队的东家—跑路者唱片公司的关注，并向乐队递上了合约。但就在乐队准备签约前，乐队的贝斯手却意外怀孕了，这毁灭了海伦乐队的音乐梦想，贝利·雷不得不重返校园，继续进修攻读英国文学学士学位。这期间她在一家爵士俱乐部当起了衣帽间的招待员，这份兼职拓展了她的音乐触角。最后就在这间俱乐部，她开始重返舞台了。
贝利·雷的音乐之路也许算是坎坷曲折的，但这也赋予了她一些与众不同的特质。
许多女歌迷认为贝利·雷专辑里的首支单曲《聆听你的歌》似乎就是为自己而唱，能恰当地反映她们的心声。这让贝利感到无比雀跃。
“我很高兴，人们能这样去感受这首歌曲，”她说道，“我想这些话正是我很小的时候希望有人对我说的。你可以花费很多年的时间去努力适应别人，你努力得越多，适应得越多，人们会改变得越快。这便是这首歌的主题。当你追赶上潮流的时候，人们又开始迷上其他潮流了。所以保持自己的特色，并且享受这一过程会更加容易，而且感觉更好。
贝利·雷的转运似乎是恰当时候。流行音乐榜已经把注意力从大量打造的流行甜姐们身上（比如小甜甜布兰妮·斯皮尔斯），转到了更多的创作歌手身上，诸如贝利·雷、以及同是英国歌手的凯蒂·彤斯朵。贝利·雷称自己涉足音乐界已有很长一段时间了，她意识到流行音乐似乎只是一个不断循环的机器，而此时，当转盘再次指向创作歌手时，她恰好在创作着大家需要的音乐。
成功的感觉对于科琳·贝利·雷而言还是那样新奇，但是她说即使成功永远不降临，她还是会坚持唱下去的。
“我想我是爱音乐的，即使我没有成名，专辑没有大卖，我还是会坚持做音乐。”这位英国的灵魂乐歌手这样说道。
“成功不会吓倒我，因为我感觉迄今为止自己已经投身音乐很长时间了。我想目前的成功会给我的第二张专辑带来些许压力，这些压力来自外界，同时也来自我自身，但我一直在努力不这么想。我制作第一张专辑时从未给自己施压，当时我只是尽我所能做好它。”