Christine Correa
American jazz singer of Indian origin
Christine Correa | |
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Birth name | Christine Isobel Correa |
Born | (1955-07-08) July 8, 1955 (age 69) Mumbai, India |
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Years active | 1990s–present |
Labels | Music & Arts |
Website | christinecorrea |
Musical artist
Christine Isobel Correa (born July 8, 1955) is an American jazz singer of Indian origin.
Life and work
Correa is from a musical family; her father Micky Correa led big bands in India.[1] As a child she sang and played piano.[1] In 1979, she moved to the U.S. and attended the New England Conservatory of Music, where her teachers included Jaki Byard, Ran Blake, and Joe Maneri.[1] She worked with the quintet of Frank Carlberg, in ballet music for the Battery Dance Company. She teaches at Columbia University and is the director the Maine Jazz Camp.[2]
Discography
With Ran Blake
- Round About (Music & Arts, 1994)
- Out of the Shadows (Red Piano, 2010)
- Down Here Below: Tribute to Abbey Lincoln Volume One (Red Piano, 2012)
- The Road Keeps Winding: Tribute to Abbey Lincoln Volume Two (Red Piano, 2015)[3]
- Streaming (Red Piano, 2018)
- When Soft Rains Fall (Red Piano, 2021)
With Frank Carlberg
- Ugly Beauty (Northeastern, 1993)
- The Crazy Woman (Accurate, 1995)
- Variations On A Summer Day (Fresh Sound New Talent, 1999)
- In The Land Of Art (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2002)
- State of The Union (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2005)
- The American Dream (Red Piano, 2007)
- Uncivilized Ruminations (Red Piano, 2009)
- Big Enigmas (Red Piano, 2012)
- Word Circus (Red Piano, 2014)
- No Money In Art (Red Piano, 2016)