The Corrs

The Corrs
The Corrs performing at the NEC Arena, Birmingham on 14 November 2024
The Corrs performing at the NEC Arena, Birmingham on 14 November 2024
Background information
OriginDundalk, County Louth, Ireland
Genres
Years active
  • 1990–2006
  • 2015–present
Labels
Members
Websitethecorrsofficial.com

The Corrs are an Irish family band that combine pop rock with traditional Irish themes within their music. The group consists of the Corr siblings: Andrea (lead vocals, tin whistle, mandolin, ukulele), Sharon (violin, keyboards, vocals), Caroline (drums, percussion, piano, bodhrán, vocals) and Jim (guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals). They are from Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland.

The Corrs have released seven studio albums and numerous singles, which have reached Platinum in many countries, and have sold 40 million albums worldwide.[1] Talk on Corners, their most successful album to date, reached multi-Platinum status in Australia, and in the UK it was the highest selling album of the year. The band is one of only a handful of acts who have held the top two positions simultaneously in the UK album charts, with Talk on Corners at number one and Forgiven, Not Forgotten at number two. The latter was the year's third highest selling album in Australia. Their third studio album, In Blue, went to number one in seventeen countries.[2]

The Corrs have received two Grammy Award nominations, one BRIT Award, and were awarded honorary MBEs in 2005 for their contributions to music and charity.[3] They have also been actively involved in philanthropic activities, performing in numerous charity concerts, such as The Prince's Trust event in 2004 and Live 8 in 2005.[4]

The band was inactive for almost ten years because Jim and Caroline were raising families, while Andrea and Sharon were pursuing solo careers while raising families of their own. According to Sharon, it was uncertain if and when the Corrs would reunite.[5] Rumours of a reunion sparked in early 2015 and in a radio interview with Chris Evans in June 2015, Andrea confirmed that the Corrs were working on a new album and would play the BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park festival.[6] Their sixth studio album, White Light,[7] was released on 27 November 2015, and was accompanied by a European tour. After two years, their seventh studio album, Jupiter Calling, was released on 10 November 2017.

  1. ^ World Chart Positions. acharts.us. Retrieved 13 July 2007.
  2. ^ UK Searchable Charts Database. everyhit.com. Retrieved 13 July 2007. Archived 4 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Honorary MBEs awarded to the Corrs". RTÉ Entertainment. 7 November 2005. Retrieved 2 November 2007.
  4. ^ "The Corrs, Bono /U2/- When the Stars Go Blue, concert Live 8, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 6.7.2005". 24 August 2017. Archived from the original on 7 November 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2018 – via YouTube.
  5. ^ "Sharon Corr: Rock chick and yummy mummy". The Belfast Telegraph. 6 March 2012.
  6. ^ "BBC – Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2015". Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  7. ^ Wyatt, Daisy (17 September 2015). "The Corrs are coming back for a 2016 UK tour". The Independent. Retrieved 18 September 2015.