In 2006 Corinne Bailey Rae released her self-titled debut album, a record she had recorded on a shoestring budget while still unsigned. An early appearance on BBC2's 'Later With Jools' and some intimate gigs around the UK had already started a word-of-mouth buzz leading her to be tipped as the next big thing. But the success of that album was instant and immense. Debuting at Number One in the UK, featuring hit singles such as 'Put Your Records On' and 'Like A Star', becoming a smash-hit around the world, and crashing straight into the Billboard Top 20 in the US - the first British female singer-songwriter to do so in decades - meant Bailey Rae gained a huge global audience within months.
And now, four years and four-million album sales later, comes the long-awaited second album. For the 30-year-old singer and songwriter from Leeds, this meant politely declining the suggestions that she work with this or that big-league producer in this or that big-money studio. It meant co-producing the album herself with friends and musicians she had worked with in the past to retain intimacy and control, shrugging off the huge, worldwide expectations engendered by the self-titled debut and refusing to be bedazzled by that album's multiple Grammy and Brit Award nominations.
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( African American composer, bandleader, & publisher)
W.C. Handy was born in Florence, Alabama, November 16, 1873, the son of former slaves. His first instrument was the coronet, and he advanced from lessons in a barbershop to studying classical music. While still a teenager Handy began teaching school but left for better paying work in a factory. At the age of twenty, he organized a quartet to play the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, a gathering that attracted other musical luminaries of the time, notably ragtime pianist Scott Joplin.
After the fair, Handy toured with various ensembles and taught music at Alabama A&M in Huntsville. He left teaching and joined Mahara's Minstrels in 1896 as a cornetist. Handy toured the country with the group, and quickly became their leader. In 1903, he moved to Clarksdale, Mississippi, to direct the Colored Knights of Pythias, an entourage that performed for both whites and blacks. During a performance for a white audience, a request was made to "play some of your own music." When the band resumed, the whites shouted that Handy was not honoring their request. During a break, three local black men with stringed instruments took the stage and played a primitive blues that brought an appreciative reaction from the crowd. The crowd's reaction caused the bandleader to reconsider the band's repertoire, noting the strong response that "primitive music" created. In 1903, while waiting for a train at a station in Tutwiler, Mississippi, Handy heard a black musician playing a guitar with a knife. The man was singing about going Where The Southern Crosses The Dog, and Handy recalled "it was the weirdest music I'd ever heard." The man's singing was answered by the crying sound that his guitar made as the knife slid along its metal strings. The influence of rural song forms on the classically trained Handy would find its celebrated outlet in his published work.
Teresa Biddle-Douglass, Nashville
Musicians jamming with W.C. Handy (Memphis/Shelby Co. Public Library
GLO 
Widely acclaimed as one of the top jazz-pop vocalist of our time, Susannah McCorkle was noted for her repertoire of over 3,000 songs, her fresh interpretations of classic pop songs, her emotional warmth and depth, and her sly, spontaneous humor.
She performed with groups ranging in size from jazz duo to big band and symphony orchestra in the US, Europe, and Japan. Her many albums have earned international critical praise.
Her current CD, Most Requested Songs, was the last project she completed before her tragic death. It includes 14 songs, personally handpicked by Susannah, that were most often requested by her fans around the world, including "The Waters of March", "The People That You Never Get to Love" and "They Can’t Take That Away From Me". The CD quickly soared to the top ten list of the traditional jazz chart.
An earlier CD, "From Broken Hearts to Blue Skies," was on PULSE! magazine's Top Ten Vocal Album of the Year List. Reflecting what New York Times critic Stephen Holden called "her superb taste in songs," it featured a wide variety of great songs written over a span of seventy years sung in English, French and Portuguese, and included tributes to jazz greats Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Chet Baker, and Django Reinhardt.
Born in Berkeley, California, Susannah studied languages in Mexico, France, Germany, and Italy, graduating from UCB with a degree in Italian literature. She began singing professionally as a student in Europe after she heard Billie Holiday records in Paris and went on to discover vintage jazz and movie musicals.
On the verge of becoming a simultaneous interpreter in four languages for the Common Market in Brussels, she went to London to try for a singing career first.
Three-time winner of the STEREO REVIEW Album of the Year Award, she was named "Singer of the Year" by the LA TIMES and "Woman We Love" by ESQUIRE magazine.
Recent TV and radio appearances include NPR's "Fresh Air," "A Prairie Home Companion," "Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz", and other appearances on Brazilian Network TV, "E!", Global TV, CBC, Bloomberg Network, and A&E.
She has published fiction in MADEMOISELLE, COSMOPOLITAN, and THE O. HENRY BOOK OF PRIZE SHORT STORIES, and non-fiction in the NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE and in AMERICAN HERITAGE, including lengthy articles on Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith, Irving Berlin and Mae West.
She was also a gifted lyricist: her English versions of Brazilian, French, and Italian songs have been widely praised by both critics and the original writers, including Antonio Carlos Jobim.
She took pride in developing and writing all her own shows, which were packed with historical information, personal insights, and revealing anecdotes about the songwriters and their songs. Her 1999 sold-out Algonquin show, "From Broken Hearts to Blue Skies," was a complex one-woman theater piece in which, in the words of New York Times critic Stephen Holden, "keeping her tongue lightly in her cheek, she weaves 16 songs around a monologue about a sensitive urban Everywoman recovering from a broken relationship."
In recent years she developed interactive Music Workshops for children from 5 to 18. She gave her Music Workshops at Lincoln Center, at Borders Bookstores, and in public schools in New York, New Jersey and Florida.
She also gave interactive concert-lectures for college students and adults.
She played Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Halls five times and Carnegie Hall three times, most recently as featured soloist with Skitch Henderson and the 80-piece New York Pops in a concert of Brazilian music.
Her death in May 2001 was a terrible loss for friends, family, her many fans and the world of jazz-pop music. Admirers and music critics around the world continue to write moving tributes to Susannah’s extraordinary, multi-faceted talent and the unique mix of passion and intelligence that illuminated her work.
A survivor of breast cancer, McCorkle suffered for many years from depression and took her own life at age 55 by leaping off the balcony of her 16th-floor apartment on West 86th Street in Manhattan. She was alone in her home at the time. The police immediately entered her home after identifying her body and found no foul play. Suicide was ruled the cause of death.
One year later, in a New York magazine tribute "Jazz Bird" by Gwenda Blair, published May 27, 2002; Blair wrote: "Onstage, singer Susannah McCorkle exuded a sultry self-confidence that won her lifelong fans. But in private, she fought depression so deep -- and so well hidden -- that a year after her suicide, even some in her most intimate circle wonder how they missed the cries for help."
Haunted Heart, a biography of Susannah McCorkle written by Linda Dahl, was published in September 2006 by University of Michigan Press.
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man’s existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, Parerga and Paralipomena
BIO
Independent - primarily Christian Artist -- now branching out into the secular music field.
One album "My Heart Sings" has already been released. Another Christian album and a new secular album are in production.
Hailing from the small, quiet town of Ashland, KY where she still resides she is in good company. This is the home town of singers such as the Judds.
ABOUT
Glo started out writing and publishing poetry as a young girl, but always loved to sing her poetry before she wrote it.
Recently, she decided to share her love of music with others, and to leave a legacy of song not only for those close to her, but for anyone who truly loves music itself.
There was no greater way she could think of to love others than to give herself to them in song; to share the glory -- the pure magic of touching another human heart with the gentle caress of music.
Glo’s first CD, "My Heart Sings" has now been released, and she is in the process of recording her new secular album "Heart Ache" which should be released sometime this year, along with another Christian album still in the planning stages.
She has been singing all her life and it is the ultimate joy of her life; a joy that has overflowed into the desire she now has to share herself, her music, and her love of life with the world at large.
How can ones' heart hold such a love of music and not share it? It is her passion and her obsession.
Come and join her in her adventure! She sings of love because she is in love with her music, her God, and others.
Glo loves to laugh and enjoy her life. As she says, "Quit taking life so seriously; no one makes it out alive anyway!"
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