Corinne for Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival 2K8!

This is a plea to anyone who’s in charge of booking artistes for the annual Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival: Please, pretty please with a cherry on top, y’all GOTTA get Corinne here for the show next year. I’m begging. I’ve never been to the festival (always wanted to go, but the beginning of a new semester + broke = no-go), but if she’s coming, I’ll be in Mo-bay if I have to walk on my hands to get there and cop a sleep on the damn golf course! No joke.

This is her soulful cover of Led Zeppilin's "Since I've Been Loving You":

Seriously though, she needs to be there. If Shaggy could be there (love Shaggy, ok? But at a jazz and blues festival???), Corinne should get an invite. I know she doesn’t exactly do jazz or blues, but just take a listen to the album. It’s jazz, blues, soul and R & B all rubbed up on each other. The album is, as she states on her website, “a little bit of everything: it's chilled out, acoustic, kooky, atmospheric and soulful.” Besides, how many true-blue jazz or blues singers have they had perform there, really?

This is a WICKED performance of Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway's "Where Is the Love", done with John Legend:


Most Jamaicans probably don’t know about her, but she’d get a good response from the younger crowd, who are into the whole neo-soul groove, and I’m willing to bet that quite a few older people will like her, too. It’s been said that her voice is reminiscent of Billie Holiday’s, which should appeal to the older crowd also. After all, they’re always complaining that music is not like it was “back in the day.” Indeed, it isn’t (I was raised by my granny, so I know some stuff), so they should appreciate that a young woman is making music that is a close approximation to what they know and love. It would also be good exposure for the young and curious, some of whom probably think that rubbish like “This is Why I’m Hot” is a song. Ugh.

Also, she’d be in the Caribbean, where part of her roots lie (her father’s from St. Kitts, remember?). It would be a homecoming of sorts. And she could even pop over to St. Kitts if she wants to, you know? So we wouldn’t be the only ones to benefit.


Please, oh PLEASE, let her be at the next Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival. I’ll start saving from now, I swear.

Here Corinne jazzes up Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack".