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Beauty Reporter
Allure's Face
Corinne Bailey Rae
Growing up in the Rust Belt city of Leeds, British singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae was a self-described Obrainy church girlO who chafed under the pressure to conform and joined an all-girl grunge band. OYou couldnOt really belong to the grunge scene if you were really pretty or really popular,O she told Rolling Stone. An admirer of Marvin Gaye, Carole King, James Taylor, and Bjrk, Rae transformed herself into a pop-soul chanteuse with a sincere, unpackaged style and an album that has charmed critics in the United States. Your very upbeat song OPut Your Records OnONwho was that written for? ItOs almost writing back to myself as a young person. ItOs all the things
I wish someone had said to me when I was young: not to be afraid that you donOt fit in and you donOt look like everyone else. You sing, OGot to love that Afro ...