Big in the UK, slowly taking over Europe and most probably soonly the USA too… Corinne Bailey Rae is the new sensation. Only 26 years old, this girl from Leeds, UK, is a fresh breeze in current music streams with a nostalgic hint of Billy Holiday and the likes.

Her selftitled album has been received with big enthusiasm by even the bigger critics.

As is being said on Amazon:

It becomes self-evident the moment you hear her sing the very first note on the first track ‘Like A Star’, that it showcases a slice of sublime Billie Holiday blues delivered with a voice that pins you, in the softest but most persuasive of ways, to the wall; a voice that floats up effortlessly, full of caress, subtlety and the very purest quality. It is wonderful, this voice, and surely a discovery to treasure, but it belongs to a young woman not from somewhere musically exotic, say Mississippi or even Manhattan, but just East of the M1: Leeds. Her name is Corinne Bailey Rae, and she was born to do this.

Visit her website to hear some fragments and then hush to your (online) recordstore to buy this year’s summer album [clicking image gets you straight to the album on Amazon].