Corrinne May专区
◆一个在新加坡出生
◆温暖却清澈透明的歌声
◆感动人心的好声音
一段旅程该走多久 时间会等我们吗？
一个为旅人抚慰伤痛 让时光停驻的歌声
在你我心中永远Reply的Corrinne May
一个在新加坡出生却在异地的美国意外闯出名号，她感情丰沛的歌词，曾让许多离乡游子不禁地留下眼泪；她温暖却清澈透明的歌声，抚慰了在都会中早已失去方向的现代人；她浑然天成的创作才华更感动了民谣之母Carole King及超级制作人Babyface，她就是Corrinne May。
在新加坡出生，之后在1996年进入美国波士顿柏克利音乐学院就读，Corrinne May在求学期间就曾以优异的创作才华而连续两年获得校内的歌曲创作演唱大赏。毕业后就移居洛杉矶，专职音乐的创作，Corrinne除了为当地的电视台做一些连续剧的配乐工作外，也定期在Live House中演出为自己累积人气。
不过真正让Corrinne May在美国发光发亮的，则是参加了由超级制作人Babyface及戴维佛斯特发起的网络歌曲创作比赛的活动，并得到了优胜的头衔。而也因为这个契机，让Corrinne May认识了民谣之母Carole King，并促成了Corrinne May得以与Carole King共同创作的机会，才有了「If You Didn’t Love Me」这首歌曲的产生。
Corrinne May的才华不仅在美国受到肯定，在太平洋彼岸的亚洲，也以创作人的身分出现在不少的音乐专辑中。其中包括了蔡健雅演唱的「默契」、张韶涵演唱过的「Journey」，都是出自Corrinne之手。另外她的歌声也曾出现在由舒琪、莫文蔚以及赵薇所共同主演的电影「末路天使」中演唱电影主题曲「Close To You」。
Fly Away是Corrinne May在美国发行的第一张创作专辑，Corrinne以其细腻的笔触以及歌声，唱出了身处在每个不同时空下旅人的故事。不论是难舍亲情却含笑为远走他乡亲人祝福的Fly Away；尽管身处不同时空然有月光联系便不觉寂寞的Same Side of The Moon；为害怕受伤害而不再轻易付出感情的现代人所写的Fall to Fly；为另一半所写的Mr. Beasley；以及献给所有怅然若失人们的Journey。Fly Away专辑中的每首歌，都值得我们细细的聆听及体会。
Corrinne May 訪問
如果你有看過莫文蔚、舒淇主演的《末路天使》，或者你也曾經四出找尋片末裡出現的一首翻唱版本的《Close to you》，即Carpenters那首，翻唱的是Corrinne May符美芸，她是一位新加坡出生，建立音樂事業在美國，並得到Carole King提拔的歌手。
她曾經為《末路天使》唱了這首主題曲之外，其實也曾經為張韶涵寫過歌《Journey》，並用在《海豚灣戀人》作主題曲，這次也自己重唱，放在大碟中。早前來港時，曾經訪問過她。當然立即詢問有關與Carole King合作的來龍去脈。
在訪問之前，最叫人意外的，是他使用的一支木結他，非常殘舊，又破又花，但是在他的網頁中有它的close up圖，他的唱片《Shapes》又拿著來拍攝封面，當日訪問，他也特地走到鄰房取來讓我們拍攝。
在新加坡，被稱呼為很具Carole King風格的歌手，但是Carole King又怎樣看她?「Carole沒說我的音樂似誰。我的音樂算是Acoustic pop，很容易接受的。」
一個華人在洛杉磯建立音樂事業，當地人如何看這個華人?「我不覺得他們會用奇怪眼光看華人，那麼甚麼人種都有，音樂只有愛聽和不愛聽，他們不理會膚色的，其實當初開始在美國唱歌也是因為有位當地音樂人需要一首歌，建議由我作我來唱，我說好，可以一試。那麼便起步了。後來發展成為一張完整唱片。
Corrinne May的音樂似Sarah McLachlan，聲底竟然似Amy Lee(Evanscenen主音)，是非常好聽的唱片。「我覺得我的音樂是可以叫人relax，是關於愛、和一些我的個人事情的。如《Fly away》正是說我自己的故事，我要遠走他方，離開新加坡到美國讀書的事。而《Journey》是我在home studio錄的，很舒服很隨意的去錄，你會感受到那份隨意的。
風格
Sarah McLachlan
Carole King
专辑：
Fly Away (2004.11.12)
Save in a crazy world (2005.4.26)
1. Messages from Corrinne:
26th December 2002
Subject: (Corrinne May's Newsletter) Around the World in 60 days
Hi!
I hope you're having a wonderful holiday season
It's been a while since I've sent out an email, so there's a lot I'd like to share with you.
I've been travelling quite a lot of late. I was in New York and Boston in October for a couple of weeks and I had a great time there playing shows at The Bitter End and at Club Passim and getting college radio airplay at WERS 88.9 FM.
And the past three weeks I've been in Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore. Whew!
I visited the 1000 year old temples of Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom in Cambodia and was humbled by the sheer majesty of the stone carved temples. Remember tomb raider, the movie? I saw the actual temples at Cambodia... the ones with the gigantic trees and tree roots permeating the stone walls of the temples. Amazing.
And Vietnam! Talk about tons of motorcycles criss-crossing everywhere on the streets. Especially in Hanoi, a city of 4 million people and 1 million motorbikes. Our tour guide told us to cross the road slowly and not run, so that we could be seen and avoided by the darting motorists. It was scary trying to cross the streets, especially because nobody cared about the traffic lights in Hanoi! Still, an amazing city, vibrant and graceful despite the years of war endured.
In Singapore, I had my food fix! Filled up on mum's home-cooked food and all the local delights like "char kway teow", ie. a fried noodle dish.
And, I got to sing at the outdoor theatre of the brand new Esplanade, or as local Singaporeans call it, "The Durian" (because of the way the venue physically resembles the thorny, dinosaur-looking fruit) which is Singapore's new world class concert venue. I had lots of fun singing by the water's edge
I will be putting up all the photos from my whirlwind trips of these past few months onto my gallery page within the next week, and I hope you'll have as much fun viewing them as I did taking the pics.
Well, I'm back in Los Angeles now, and I'm swearing off travelling for a while. I'll be spending the next few months getting my second album ready.
Thank you so much for being a part of my journey thus far. Couldn't have made it through the years without your support for my music
By the way, I'll be closing up the year with one last show on Friday, the 27th of December, 9.15 p.m at the Warehouse in Marina Del Rey. The address is below. It'll be nice to see you.
My thoughts and prayers are with you for a blessed Christmas season and a wonderful new year.
Love,
Corrinne
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