Corinne Bailey Rae was born and raised in Leeds, the oldest of three daughters to a West Indian father and a Yorkshire mother.

Rae put the violin she had been playing down and took up the guitar with a vengeance.

Corinne Bailey Rae has got the kind of voice that can get people who hate R&B (in the modern sense) to listen to Rythmn and Blues. And in that sense she can be compared to say, Vivian Green, perhaps even Jill Scott.