Sharon Corr
Sharon Helga Corr (born 24 March 1970) is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and television personality. She is best known as a member of the pop-rock band the Corrs, which she co-founded in 1990 with her elder brother Jim and younger sisters Caroline and Andrea. She plays the violin, piano and guitar, and sings backing vocals.
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Sharon Corr
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- Sharon Corr
- Birth Name
- Sharon Helga Corr
- Born
- 24 March 1970
- Occupation
- * Musician
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Fields
- pop music · rock music
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Sharon Helga Corr (born 24 March 1970) is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and television personality. She is best known as a member of the pop-rock band the Corrs, which she co-founded in 1990 with her elder brother Jim and younger sisters Caroline and Andrea. She plays the violin, piano and guitar, and sings backing vocals.
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Sharon Corr (born 1970) is a composer, guitarist and musician, among other activities, of Irish nationality. The composer was born in Dundalk. Activity centred on music composing.
The work spans pop music and rock music. Languages used include English. Honours include honorary doctorate.
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Biography
Biography
Corr worked across singer-songwriter, pianist, singer, songwriter and guitarist and 3 further recorded occupations. The registers place that work in pop music and rock music. This article rests on 77 catalogued compositions, 17 issued recordings and 8 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.
Sharon Corr, performing in the Big Top Arena at the Isle of Wight Festival 2011, held in Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of Wight.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Sharon Corr • Birth Name — Sharon Helga Corr • Born — 24 March 1970 • Origin — Dundalk, Louth, Ireland • Genre — * Pop • rock • celtic • Occupation — * Musician • television personality • Instrument — * Violin • vocals • piano • guitar • Years Active — 1990–present • Label — * Rhino • Warner Bros. • Current Member Of — The Corrs • Website — sharoncorr.com
2009–2012: Dream of You
2009–2012: Dream of You
In July 2009, Corr was voted into first place in the Ms Twitter UK competition. On 15 July 2009, Corr appeared on This Morning, having been booked by host Phillip Schofield via Twitter, to confirm the release of a new solo single and album. Her début single, "It's Not a Dream", was released on 29 August in Ireland and 31 August in the UK, with appearances at Isle of Wight, Glastonbury, and a number of other European music festivals. The album, Dream of You, was released on 13 September 2010 and comprises a number of self-penned tracks and select covers with Corr playing violin throughout. She was joined by longtime Corrs' sidemen Anthony (Anto) Drennan on lead guitar, Keith Duffy on bass, and Jason Duffy on drums, with orchestral arrangements by Fiachra Trench, a collaborator on four Corrs' albums. Corr embarked on the Dream of You Tour on 19 August 2011 in Aberdeen and continued through the UK and Europe, with an Australian leg added in January 2012. While on the tour she introduced a newly written track, "Edge of Nowhere", which will be included on her second album.
2012–present: The Voice of Ireland, The Same Sun and The Fool and the Scorpion
2012–present: The Voice of Ireland, The Same Sun and The Fool and the Scorpion
Corr was a coach on the first and second series of the RTÉ talent show The Voice of Ireland. In an interview with the Maitland Mercury in February 2012, Corr revealed that she is piecing together her second solo record. Corr finished writing the album in March 2012 and she said it may be called Catch the Moon. The title comes from the idea "of when somebody comes into your life and they utterly change yours, that you would go to any lengths for them... so you would catch the moon." However, on 21 August 2013 it was announced that the new album would be titled The Same Sun. The lead single from the album, "Take a Minute", peaked at No. 11 on the Irish charts and No. 20 in the France charts. Corr also embarked on The Same Sun Tour in late 2013, touring in The Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, and Indonesia. She performed in Indonesia at Jakarta Convention Center (JCC), Jakarta, Indonesia, on 24 September 2013 (WIB) as a special guest. She was also joined on tour by Yovie Widianto who was a special guest in Madrid, Spain, in November 2013. The tour continued throughout the United States during January and February 2014. In 2015, The Corrs reunited, releasing the albums White Light. That album was followed up by Jupiter Calling in 2017. Sharon released her third solo album, The Fool and the Scorpion on 24 September 2021. Promo for this album started in May with the announcement of a solo residency at Sala Clamores in Madrid, Spain. In May and June 2022, Sharon will embark on a UK tour supporting Jeff Beck, following her Spain and France gigs in January 2022.
Personal life
Personal life
In 2001, Corr married Belfast barrister Robert Gavin Bonnar in Cratloe Church, County Clare. They had their first child in 2006, and a daughter in 2007. The couple divorced in 2019. After having children, she battled with social anxiety disorder and wrote about her anxiety problems on her solo album.
Studio albums
Studio albums
• Title — Album details — Peak chart positions • IRE — AUS — FRA — NZ — SPA — UK • Dream of You — * Released: 13 September 2010 * Label: Rhino * Formats: CD, digital download — 22 — 67 — 100 — 15 — 67 — 37 • The Same Sun — * Released: 16 September 2013 * Label: BobbyJean * Formats: CD, digital download — — — — — — — — — — — 104 • The Fool and the Scorpion — * Released: 24 September 2021 * Label: EastWest * Formats: CD, vinyl, digital download — — — — — — — — — 55 — —
Singles
Singles
• Year — Single — Peak chart positions — Album • IRE — UK • 2009 — "Me and My Teddy Bear" — — — — — Bandaged Together • "It's Not a Dream" — 29 — 167 — Dream of You • 2010 — "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" — — — — • "So Long Ago" — — — — • 2011 — "Over It" — — — — • 2013 — "Take a Minute" — 11 — — — The Same Sun • 2014 — "We Could Be Lovers" — — — — • 2021 — "The Fool and the Scorpion" — — — — — The Fool and the Scorpion
Guest appearances
Guest appearances
• 1999: "Rendez-vous à Paris" (Jean-Michel Jarre) • 2008: "First Love – Songs from the British Isles" (Bryn Terfel) • 2009: "Amarrado a Tí" (Alex Ubago) • 2015: "Black Is the Colour" (Damien Leith) • 2022: "A Christmas Childhood" (Patrick Kavanagh) • 2023: "Go With The Flow" (The High Kings)
Life and work
Life and work
Sharon Corr was born on 24 March 1970 in Dundalk. Corr held the nationality of Ireland. Recorded sibling: Jim Corr, Caroline Corr and Andrea Corr. Corr worked as singer-songwriter, pianist, singer and songwriter, and the authority record catalogues a further 4 occupations under the same name, among them guitarist, composer, violinist and musician. Corr was active from 1990. The fields Corr worked in include pop music and rock music. Corr played the guitar, the violin, the piano and the voice. Corr worked in English.
Compositions, 2000–2001
Catalogued output
Compositions, 2000–2001
The entries below are works composed by the subject, as the institutional registers catalogue them; later performances and commercial recordings of the same music are listed separately. They belong to a run of 77 titles in all, from 2000 to 2001.
2 compositions carry dates between 2000 and 2001
The run opens with Irresistible and closes with All the Love in the World
Irresistible
2000
All the Love in the World
2001
Compositions without a settled date
Catalogued output
Compositions without a settled date
75 further compositions are catalogued under Corr's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it. A selection is set out below and the complete run may be opened beneath it. We Could Be Lovers. Love Is Blindness. Black Is the Colour (of My True Love’s Hair). She Moved Through the Fair.
Confidence for Quiet
Forgiven, Not Forgotten
Along With the Girls
My Lagan Love
Queen of Hollywood
At Your Side
Rendez-vous à Paris
Would You Be Happier?
Don’t Say You Love Me
No More Cry
Toss the Feathers
Upon an Ocean
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Confidence for Quiet
Forgiven, Not Forgotten
Along With the Girls
My Lagan Love
Queen of Hollywood
At Your Side
Rendez-vous à Paris
Would You Be Happier?
Don’t Say You Love Me
No More Cry
Toss the Feathers
Upon an Ocean
Love in the Milky Way
I Never Loved You Anyway
Baby Be Brave
Haste to the Wedding
The Right Time
Head in the Air
Somebody Else’s Boyfriend
Edge of Nowhere
Only When I Sleep
Thinking About You
Give Me a Reason
Give It All Up
Take a Minute
The Minstrel Boy
Love to Love You
Somebody for Someone
Love Gives Love Takes
Make You Mine
When He’s Not Around
All in a Day
Leave Me Alone
No Good for Me
What Can I Do
Other recordings
Other recordings
As well as "No Frontiers" with Caroline Corr, Sharon sings "Dimming of the Day" and the demo version of "Goodbye". In 1999 she recorded violin parts for the Jean-Michel Jarre track "Rendez-vous à Paris", which was released in 2000 on the album Métamorphoses. She also recorded two tracks in 2008 with the Welsh operatic singer Bryn Terfel, and "Amarrado a Ti" with the Spanish singer Alex Ubago in 2009.
Issued recordings
Primary material
Issued recordings
These are published sound issues catalogued under the name. Most postdate the works they carry, and an issue is never counted here as a work of composition. 4 issues carry dates between 2000 and 2013. The run opens with Rebel Heart and closes with The Same Sun. The 2000s are the densest part of the run, with 2 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself.
Recordings and discography
Primary material
Recordings and discography
The discography assembled here shows how Corr's work has been published in sound, not what Corr made. 13 sound issues are catalogued, carrying dates from 2009 to 2021. An issue is a published recording, distinct from the composition it carries, from a printed score of that composition and from any single performance of it; none of the entries below is counted in the catalogue of compositions above, and several of them carry the same work in different readings. The 2010s are the densest decade of publication, with 8 issues. The performers and issuing labels are as the discographic register states them; where it names no performer the article names none.
Silver Bells / Me and My Teddy Bear
2009
So Long Ago
2010
We Could Be Lovers
2014
The Fool & The Scorpion
2021
Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime
2010
Amarrado a ti
2009
Running On Rooftops
2021
The Same Sun
2013
Dream of You
2010
It's Not a Dream
2009
Over It
2011
Full Circle
2014
Primary material
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- “Sharon Corr”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q235143: Sharon Corr
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Honours and awards
2 honours stand against the name
Honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire. Honorary doctorate
2019
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- 1.Sharon Corr receives honorary doctorate from The Open University. The Open University. 22 March 2019.
- 2.Sharon Corr to judge for The Voice. Herald.ie.
- 3.Ms Twitter UK Hall of Fame.
- 4.Finn, Melanie. Bressie's in the hotseat in search for the Voice. Evening Herald. 28 October 2011.
- 5.Milligan, Nick. Sharon Corr lives to make music. Maitland Mercury dead link. December 2017.
- 6.Sharon Corr: Rock chick and yummy mummy. The Belfast Telegraph. 6 March 2012.
- 7.JAMS International. Gavin Bonnar, LLB, BL.
- 8.Coleman, Maureen. Sharon Corr Judges The Voice. Culture Northern Ireland. 28 May 2012.
- 9.Sharon Corr rules out getting married again following divorce. RTE News. 2024-04-16.
- 10.The Corr's Main Frame.
- 11.Evoke.ie. Sharon Corr 'splits' from husband Gavin Bonnar after 18 years. 26 October 2019.
- 12.Sharon Corr rules out getting married again following divorce. RTE News. 2024-04-16.
- 13.goss.ie. Sharon Corr reveals battle with anxiety: 'I needed to break down and be vulnerable'. 20 Sep 2014.
- 14.Sharon Corr Official Website. It's Reality – UK & Ireland Release Dates For Sharon Corr's Debut Album.
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The authorities additionally record the heading Sharon Helga Corr. Her recorded language was English. She married Robert Gavin Bonnar. Recorded with the occupation singer-songwriter. Recorded as a citizen of Ireland. Classed in the genre rock music.
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