Corrinne May

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Corrinne May at the MTV office (Early 2006)

Corrinne May, (born Corrinne Foo May Ying; Chinese: 符美芸; pinyin: Fú Měiyún) is a Singaporean singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles. Born on January 19, 1973, she was named after her mother's favourite song, "Corinna, Corinna".

Corrinne studied in Raffles Girls' Primary School, Raffles Girls' School (Secondary) and Raffles Junior College. She later majored in mass communications and English literature at the National University of Singapore. Corrinne left Singapore to further her music education at the Berklee College of Music, where she majored in songwriting and film scoring. In order to pursue her dreams in music, she moved to Los Angeles in 1999.

Corrinne co-wrote the song "If You Didn’t Love Me" with the legendary songwriters Carole King and Carole Bayer Sager as part of her winning entry in a songwriting competition on the music industry website Tonos.com. Carole King & Carole Bayer Sager wrote the lyric for the song and entertained submissions for the best musical accompaniment and melody. Corrinne's version was the winner. The song is featured on Corrinne's debut album. Corrinne has met Carole Bayer Sager but not Carole King.

Her song "Journey" was featured on the Taiwanese drama Dolphin Bay Lovers and was covered by popular Asian singers Angela Zhang and Gigi Leung.

In September 2004, Corrinne May became the first (and only) artist singing exclusively in English, to be signed by the record label Forward Music in Taiwan, which distributes her music to Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and China.

Safe in a Crazy World (2005)

Two songs from Corrinne's second album, "Save Me" and "Everything in its Time", were featured in Channel 5's hit television series, Chase, which ran from March to May 2005. Chase arguably propelled Corrinne May from relative obscurity to an unprecedented level of recognition in Singapore.

Corrinne has been playing the piano since the age of 5, and is also proficient with the guitar. On February 11, 2005, The Straits Times interviewed May, who related that being a devout Catholic, "much of her music has been inspired by her relationship with God".

On Sunday 12 February 2006, Corrinne held a concert "Strings & Serenades: Corrinne May in Concert" in Singapore at UCC Hall. Singapore's answer to Sarah McLachlan returned to kick off the Arts Festival with this one-night-only acoustic concert, backed by an eight-piece string ensemble. Due to popular demand, an extra show was added on Monday February 13, 2006. This second show was more intimate and featured Corrinne on her piano accompanied by just a string quartet.

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Her husband, Kavin Hoo, helped to produce Corrinne's first and second albums. He also helps to coordinate some of her performances.
Two things which Corrinne bought when she was seven years old were two cassette tapes. One was "My Fair Lady" and the other one was a compilation of film music.
While growing up, Corrinne listened to music by a variety of artists which included The Carpenters, Air Supply, Hall & Oates and Michael Jackson.
Coldplay, Alicia Keys are among the artists whom Corrinne currently listens to.
She has been listening to a lot of classical music. She was actually rebelling against it for a while especially when her music teacher was forcing her with all these classical music pieces she had to play. Her mum said that when Corrinne May was in her tummy, she listened to a lot of classical music.
James Taylor, Josh Groban and Alicia Keys are the artists whom she hope to be able to work with during her career.
She likes to travel during her free time. Boston is her favourite destination.