Sharon Corr

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.

• 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

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.

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.

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.

• 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 — —

• 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

• 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)

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.

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.