links for 2010-01-17

• After a Death, Corinne Bailey Rae Embraces Life’s Diversity - NYTimes.com
  “The Sea” is a testament to the idea that love transforms you, not just your emotions, but your entire sense of identity. She acknowledged that her husband had played a big role in her evolution from a young rocker girl to a more soulful singer. As a teenager her first interest was grunge. “I loved that P J Harvey and Courtney Love had this sexuality that had nothing to do with the male gaze, it was ‘This is how I want to look.’ It made me feel like there was something defiant about being a black girl with short hair and an electric guitar.” From the age of 15 she played in a mostly female rock band called Helen.

  When she was 19, Ms. Rae was working as a coat-check girl in a jazz club where she occasionally sang soul standards. One night she caught Mr. Rae, a saxophonist, supporting Maceo Parker. “They played ‘Georgia on My Mind,’ which I’d never heard before, and I burst into tears,” she recalled with a sad smile. “I knew that, from that point on, my life was going to change.”

  
  
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Comments

[Al_Pal]

Beautiful.