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Caroline Georgina Corr MBE (born 17 March 1973, in Dundalk, County Louth) is the drummer for the folk-rock band, The Corrs. Caroline is 5`4", the second shortest after Andrea Corr in the band & family. In addition to the drums, Caroline also plays the bodhrán, piano, and occasional backing vocals. The Corr siblings were awarded honorary MBEs in 2005 by Queen Elizabeth II, in recognition of their musical talents and also their charitable work which has raised money for Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, victims of the Omagh Bombing and other charities.
Caroline Corr was born in Dundalk, in 1973, 17 March at County Louth, on the east coast of Ireland, which is 50 miles north of Dublin, to Jean and Gerry Corr. She was brought up in a Catholic household. Caroline has an elder sister Sharon Corr (b.1970), elder brother Jim Corr (b.1964) and a younger sister Andrea Corr (b.1974). She was sent to the same school "Dun Lughaidh Convent" like her sisters. Caroline used to work at McManus`s, her aunt`s pub, in Dundalk together with her sisters. Caroline and Sharon sang No Frontiers, a cover of the Mary Black song. Her parents, Jean and Gerry, played ballads and folk tunes in local bands, and formed their own band called "Sound Affair". Jean sang and Gerry played the keyboards and they performed covers of songs by various famous bands. Caroline and her siblings were exposed to music from a very young age. Even at this stage, little Caroline and her siblings travelled with Jean and Gerry to gigs in the family estate car. Caroline was taught the piano by her father Gerry at a very early age like her other siblings. She also learnt the bodhrán by watching videos of traditional Irish musicians playing it. Caroline married Frank Woods, her boyfriend of many years, in August 2002, in Majorca, Spain. Their first child, Jake, was born on 12 February 2003, and was joined by a second baby Georgina on 11 October 2004, which led to her taking some time off from the band`s activities. On 1 December 2006, Caroline gave birth to a baby girl, the couple`s third child, named Rihann. Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Corr |
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Friends and FamilyJean Corr [Mother] (Deceased) :: Sharon Corr [Sister] :: Andrea Corr [Sister] :: Jim Corr [Brother]Trivia and QuotesQuotes I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular. I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one. We`ve worked very hard as a band and would like to think we`ve got this far on the strength of our music. But I do have an idea in my head before I go in about what I`m going to do. Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools. There was no one in particular I really tried to copy. I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific. I`m not the hottest tuner on the planet, so I normally get someone to come out and do it for me. Well I had a musical background, but I still didn`t know a lot about drums at the time. We spent a long time on this album, so it was very creative in the sense that we had the time and the luxury to do whatever we wanted to do. Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are. In Ireland, it`s been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they`re Irish. Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that. We`re not like, say, The Spice Girls. I`m not slagging them off as I think that they`ve got some great songs but they`re more of an image band. It`s been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it`s actually working out okay. A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it`s been good to be involved completely musically as well. Our parents were musicians. We go in and I do my thing, and then we supplement it with whatever we want. Yeah, we sit there eating breakfast, just glaring at each other, kind of daring anyone to speak... it`s very good thinking time. That tour we did in early `97, we did like 4 continents in 3 weeks. We were so jet lagged that it all canceled out. I am like an entire day behind. We do it because we love to play music and that`s what we`re all about. I really like to have a bit of direction, you know? Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we`d all be playing the same thing!! I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!! And I`ve played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band. I mean, y`know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing. I`ve always stayed pretty fit. I felt I needed to give myself energy by exercising and things like that. Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes. I used to play the piano in the band, and so there`s some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards. When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy. There`s actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others. Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn`t go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn`t particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up. Oh yeah, we all write. That`s what`s great about when you have basics in piano. I love Cindy Blackman, I think she`s an amazing player. And she`s got the whole image going. It`s simple, nothing crazy, but she`s just really solid. We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely. I really didn`t even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on the road. I was kind of thrown in the deep end. But that wasn`t a bad thing when I look back at it. | ||
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