Andrea Jane Corr , born the May 17th 1974 with Dundalk, is the principal Chanteuse Irish group The Corrs since the beginning of the the Nineties (at which time the group is formed). She also plays of the Tin whistle (Irish traditional flute) and of the Piano, even if one sees it little playing about it.

Biography

Andrea Corr, born with Dundalk in Ireland in the County of Louth, is the girl of Jean and Gerry Corr, of the former musicians. She has two sisters (Caroline, born in 1973 and Sharon, born in 1970) and a brother (Jim, born in 1964). With its 1,55m, it is smallest of the phratry.

Like its elder, Andrea very early learns how to play of the piano. Those practitioner also a second instrument, it then wants to make some in the same way and thus there is offer to him a Tin whistle. There still, the training is very fast. The family notices quickly that Andrea has a very beautiful voice and it is thus it which becomes the singer of the group at the time of its formation. Andrea passes a childhood without history. Like her sisters, she studies with the convent of Dun Lughaidh (where she is regarded as one of the best pupils of her class). It is a serious but particularly disordered girl.

Andrea wrote a good part of the texts of the songs of The Corrs.

Its career with the cinema

In 1990, the four brothers and sisters pass a hearing for the film Commitments of Alan Parker. Seule Andrea is retained for a supporting role (that of the little sister of the main character). The others have only roles of figuration. A few years later, in 1996, Andrea makes to an appearance in the musical film Evita same realizer, but it is in 2002 qu ' it obtains its first great role in The Boys and Girl From County Clare . Are followed from there two other main roles in short-measuring The Bridge (2005) and the film Broken Thread (2006).

Its career solo

In 2006, Andrea benefits from a pause of the group (his brother and its sisters having a family life very charged) to record a first album solo, produced by Nellee Hooper and Bono, the singer of the group U2. The official site of the group The Corrs officializes the exit of the album which does not name Present but Ten Feet High . Individual the Shame One You leaves on June 18th and the album leaves on June 25th to the United Kingdom and to France, on June 22nd to Germany and Switzerland, on August 27th in Japan and on August 28th to Spain.

In spite of a lack of promotion in several countries, the album arrives has to be in Signal 100 in Germany, in Ireland, in the United Kingdom and in Switzerland. In France, the album entered for its first week of exploitation to the 128e place. One week later the album left already the Signal in spite of good criticisms of the purchasers.

Lastly, the 2nd individual exit of the album is Champagne From has Straw .

Discography

with the group The Corrs

solo

Catalog of films

Various information

  • Andrea Corr was elected more beautiful woman of Ireland in 1999.
  • Andrea is very disordered. It always loses its business. According to her sister, Sharon, if it did not lose anything, it is that it lost itself.
  • It is droitière.
  • It has the brown eyes and the brown hair.
  • It wrote the song " Angel" (of the album Borrowed Heaven) in memory of his/her mother, deceased in 2000 following a serious lung disease.
  • It is always optimistic and merry.
  • Is youngest of Corrs.
  • Parfois it is presented to the concerts barefeet.

External bonds

  • The Corrs Official Website
  • Official site of Andrea Corr
  • Andrea Corr on IMDB
  • Category Dmoz The Corrs/Andrea Corr
  • Andrea Network

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