Less than twelve months ago Corinne Bailey Rae was a name still to trouble most people's ears. Yet within the space of a year this previously unknown singer from Leeds has become an award winning, multi-platinum global superstar who has not only taken Britain and Europe by storm but exploded across Asia and broken America with a grace and ease that was previously thought impossible, selling over 2 million albums worldwide in under six months.
From a number one hit in Japan to a gold record in New Zealand; from selling half a million records in the US in just six weeks to playing to 30,000 fans in Portugal; from winning a Mojo Award to being nominated for three Mobo Awards, the story goes on and on - 2006 has been a whirlwind of unprecedented success and here is where it all started...
‘Like A Star' is a special song, one of those beautiful moments in music that affects even the most hardened soul. When Corinne played it on Later With Jools last November the effect was spine-tingling. Burt Bacharach hailed her as fantastic, the Arctic Monkeys told the NME it "makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up" and the record-buying public sent the limited-edition release straight into the Top 40.
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