In the months following the death of her husband, Corinne Bailey Rae was obsessed with the grieving process. She began to wonder whether or not there was a right way, and a wrong way, to mourn the loss of a loved one.
After the death of Jason Rae due to a drug overdose in 2008, the Grammy-nominated singer disappeared from the limelight. She spent most of her day either sleeping or resting, taking walks, and spending time with family.
She didn’t know how to move on once her destiny was forever changed.
“I’m not familiar with that kind of shock that lasts all that amount of time,” she says. “It just sort of takes ages to sink it. You feel it and then you don’t feel it; you know what’s happened and then you don’t really know what happened.
“Somebody wrote me a letter saying that you need to surrender to it, which I was like, ‘Well, how do I surrender?’”
While Rae is still not totally at peace with Jason’s death, she has come to realize that the grieving process is different for each person. In her case, it meant she needed to pour her emotions into her music. The result? A stirring, fresh new album, “The Sea“, which she began before her husband’s death but didn’t complete until almost 1 year later.
“There are other people that have had these similar experiences – all different kinds of loss, and I feel like a lot of people don’t really sing about it in popular music,” said a more energetic, reflective Rae during a recent interview. “I want to be that one voice that is saying that this is also a human experience that is worth making music about.”
You can learn more about her and see more of her music on the Corinne Bailey Rae page.
Related articles by Zemanta
- Corinne Bailey Rae’s The Sea awash with grief (thestar.com)
- Review: Rae expresses grief artfully on ‘The Sea’ (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- Corinne Bailey Rae interview for The Sea (telegraph.co.uk)
Incoming search terms:
Get Blippitt via RSS feed, Facebook, Twitter, Google+,
and be sure to get our Daily Email Broadcast.
