Asian-American vocalist / song-writer / composer / pianist
http://www.corrinnemay.com
Corrinne May (born Corrinne Foo May Ying 符美芸) is a Singaporean singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles. Born on January 19, 1973, she was named after her mother's favourite song, "Corinna, Corinna".
Corrinne studied in Raffles Girls' Primary School, Raffles Girls' School (Secondary) and Raffles Junior College. She later majored in mass communications and English literature at the National University of Singapore. Corrinne left Singapore to further her music education at the Berklee College of Music, where she majored in songwriting and film scoring. In order to pursue her dreams in music, she moved to Los Angeles in 1999.
Corrinne co-wrote the song "If You Didn’t Love Me" with the legendary songwriters Carole King and Carole Bayer Sager as part of her winning entry in a songwriting competition on the music industry website Tonos.com. Carole King & Carole Bayer Sager wrote the lyric for the song and entertained submissions for the best musical accompaniment and melody. Corrinne's version was the winner. The song is featured on Corrinne's debut album. Corrinne has met Carole Bayer Sager but not Carole King.
Her song "Journey" was featured on the Taiwanese drama Dolphin Bay Lovers and was covered by popular Asian singers Angela Zhang and Gigi Leung.
Corrinne’s cover version of the Burt Bacharach classic “Close to You” was featured prominently in the movie “So Close” released by Columbia-Tristar films (2002).
In September 2004, Corrinne May became the first (and only) artist singing exclusively in English, to be signed by the record label Forward Music in Taiwan, which distributes her music to Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and China.
Discography/Tracklist:
Beautiful Seed [2007]
1. Love Song For #1
2. Shelter
3. On the Side Of Me
4. Five Loaves And Two Fishes
5. Beautiful Seed
6. Leaving
7. Scars (Stronger For Life)
8. City Of Angels
9. My Little Nephew
10. Slow Down
11. Green-Eyed Monster
12. On My Way
13. 33
14. Shelter - (Cherry Blossom Edition)
The Gift (A Christmas Album) [2006]
1. Silent Night
2. Hark The Herald Angels Sing
3. Joy To The World
4. Angels We Have Heard On High
5. The Answer
6 . What Child Is This
7. Away In A Manger
8. Be Thou My Vision
9. O Come All Ye Faithful
10. O Come O Come Emmanuel
11. Hail Mary
Safe in a Crazy World [2005]
1. Little Superhero Girl
2. Save Me
3. Free
4. Everything in its Time
5. Safe in a Crazy World
6. Let it Go
7. Angel in Disguise
8. If I Kissed You
9. The Birthday Song
10. Every Beat of my Heart
11. Free (Radio Edit)
Fly Away [2001]
1.Fly Away
2.Same Side of The Moon
3.Something About You
4.Fall to Fly
5.If You Didn’t Love Me
6.Stay on the Road
7.Mr. Beasley
8.All That I Need
9.Walk Away
10.Will You Remember Me
11.Journey
12.Mr. Beasley(unplugged)
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I'm honestly surprised that no one made a thread for her yet. Her voice is absolutely breathtaking^^. My personal favorites have got to be:
Save Me
Same Side of the Moon
Little Superhero Girl
The Birthday Song
.. bah, who am I kidding! There's too many to list! They're all amazing^^!