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作者：赛斯·杜恩 特派记者
赛斯·杜恩是2016年起派驻意大利罗马的获奖CBS新闻特派记者。他曾报道欧洲各地的恐怖袭击和突发新闻，随教皇方济各出访报道梵蒂冈事务，还就移民、气候变化等诸多议题发表过报道。
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在斩获两座格莱美奖、另外四次获得格莱美提名之前，科琳·贝利·瑞最接近舞台的工作是在衣帽间当服务员。她带我们参观了当年在英国利兹高保真俱乐部（Hi-Fi Club）工作时待过的“小房间”：“说真的，我一直都很想看乐队演出。所以那份工作并不理想，因为你没法看清舞台，不过还能听到音乐。”她说。
正是在这里，一家唱片公司后来前来试听她的演唱，她和一名吉他手合作表演了《Like a Star》。
她的首支单曲《Like a Star》一炮而红，第二支单曲《Put Your Records On》亦是如此：
*也许有时我们会感到恐惧，但无妨
你越是固守不变
周遭就越是变幻莫测
你不觉得这很奇怪吗？*
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女孩，放上你的唱片，告诉我你最爱的那首歌
尽管放手去做，放下你的头发
宝石蓝与褪色牛仔裤，愿你能实现梦想
尽管放手去做，放下你的头发
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你终将在某处，以某种方式找回自我
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjOhZZyn30k
《科琳·贝利·瑞 – Put Your Records On》，来自CorinneBaileyRaeVEVO的YouTube频道
这首歌的歌词围绕着“音乐助力自我接纳”的主题，带有自传色彩：“尽管利兹是个种族多元的地方，但作为一名拥有黑人和白人父母的孩子，你依然会觉得自己格格不入。”贝利·瑞说道。
她表示，成长过程中有时会感到“身处边缘”。“我非常想拉大提琴，但我们家没有车。所以我妈妈说：‘那你可以选一把能拎得动的乐器？’于是我最后学了小提琴，而且真的很喜欢……
“我那时就注意到这类事——哦，我们没有车。哦，我们没有电话。我们家没什么钱，但这并不算是件伤心事。”
最初，贝利·瑞说，她曾为自己的嗓音感到“难过”，“因为它带着这么多粗糙质感”。但在听到比莉·哈乐黛和科特·柯本的歌声后，这种想法改变了。“那感觉就像，这个领域欢迎你。他们的歌曲不必非得，你知道，光鲜亮丽、完美无瑕。这让我觉得自己也能投身音乐。”
2006年，她的首张专辑发行，迅速登顶各大榜单，让她跻身顶级音乐人行列。“史蒂维·旺德给我打了电话，”她说，“王子也曾来看过我们的演出。”
但在2008年，一切都变了。她的丈夫、也是乐队成员的杰森·瑞因意外服药过量去世。“那时候感觉就像是我的人生走到了尽头，”她说，“那种痛苦，真的太过沉重了。”
当被问及如何应对悲痛时，贝利·瑞回答：“我会想起有人在医院里对我说过的话。她说：‘哦，悲痛是一场漫长的旅程。我们都会失去身边的人，对吧？如果我们能长寿，就总会亲眼看着其他人踏上那扇门。’而明白这一点，真的，你知道，很美。
“我认为这是一种非常复杂的情绪，因为它既包含失去至亲的悲伤，也让你意识到生命有多么美好，以及，你能和他们共度那么多时光，本身就是一件美好的事。”她说。
大约两年时间里，贝利·瑞没有推出任何新作。直到在哀悼杰森的过程中，她发行了第二张专辑《大海》（The Sea）。这张专辑由史蒂夫·布朗制作，他此前一直只是她的专业合作搭档。“其实，[是]杰森的母亲最先对我说：‘你觉得史蒂夫这个人怎么样？’”
是她牵的线吗？“她真的是个很有直觉的女人，”贝利·瑞说，“我当时觉得有两点：一是我喜欢这个男人。另一点则是，我们作为家人，给了你许可，你知道，可以继续好好生活下去。她能这么做，真的非常暖心。”
两人于2013年结婚，如今育有两个女儿。“这就像获得了第二次机会，”贝利·瑞说，“所以我确实觉得我的人生分为两个阶段——有点像‘之前’和‘之后’。”
贝利·瑞又发行了两张录音室专辑，收获了评论界的好评，即便没有取得全面的商业成功；她的家乡也为她设立了一座雕塑《缎带》（Ribbons），由艺术家皮帕·黑尔创作。“这座漂亮的雕塑是几年前落成的，上面刻着300多位来自利兹、在文化领域产生过影响的女性的名字——其中有妇女参政论者，有政客，也有艺术家。”其中就包括贝利·瑞。
今年早些时候，她推出了一本儿童读物——书名让人联想到她的冠军单曲。“我想写的是音乐如何治愈你，音乐可以陪伴你度过任何情绪，音乐可以成为你的朋友。”她说。
这本书是她首张专辑发行二十周年纪念活动的一部分。同期还有一场巡演，她在英国切尔滕纳姆爵士音乐节开启了首场演出，演唱了20年前让她一炮而红的那些热门曲目。
当被问及《Put Your Records On》的成功是否曾成为她的负担时，贝利·瑞回应：“我认为当一个人取得了巨大成功后，所有人都希望你能再次以同样的方式取得成功。你知道，音乐行业非常残酷。他们真的很想让你在商业上一路走红。”
而她自己呢？“嗯，确实是这样。但有意思的是，首张专辑发行的时候，我根本没想过，‘哦，这会——’就像，我完全没料到它会这么成功。我们是在一间没有窗户的地下室录音室里制作的。所以我当时并没有带着明确的野心去做这件事。我只是想把这些歌曲做好。”
她说，重生是她创作的一大主题：“因为每一次，都有重新开始的可能。你知道，不管什么年纪、身处何种境地，你都可以按下重启键，从头再来，投身烈火之中，完成蜕变，以全新的姿态走出困境，每一次都是如此。”
网络独家内容：观看科琳·贝利·瑞的加长专访（视频）
专访时长：科琳·贝利·瑞 21:14
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更多信息：
- corinnebaileyrae.com | 巡演信息
- 《Put Your Records On》，科琳·贝利·瑞 著，吉莉安·艾利迪·奥马拉 绘（Rocky Pond Books 出版），精装版、电子书及有声书版本均已上架亚马逊、巴诺书店及Bookshop.org
- 感谢英国利兹高保真俱乐部；以及英国利兹的衣柜剧院（The Wardrobe）
本报道由罗布恩·麦克法登制作。编辑：乔治·波兹德雷茨。
Corinne Bailey Rae on the sadness of loss and the beauty of life
July 26, 2026 / 9:42 AM EDT / CBS News
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Before winning two Grammys and being nominated for four others, working the coat check was about as close as Corinne Bailey Rae was getting to a stage. She showed us the “little box” she once sat in at the Hi-Fi Club, in Leeds, England: “I mean, I really always wanted to see the bands. So, being here wasn’t great, because you couldn’t see exactly, [though] you could hear it,” she said.
Corinne Bailey Rae ensconced in the coat check room at The Hi-Fi Club. CBS News
And it was here where a record label would later come to hear her in an audition, performing “Like a Star” with a guitarist.
“Like a Star,” her first single, became a hit, as did her second, “Put Your Records On”:
_Maybe sometimes we feel afraid, but it’s alright
The more you stay the same,
the more they seem to change
Don’t you think it’s strange?_
Girl, put your records on, tell me your favourite song
You go ahead, let your hair down
Sapphire and faded jeans, I hope you get your dreams
Just go ahead, let your hair down
You’re gonna find yourself somewhere, somehow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjOhZZyn30k
Corinne Bailey Rae – Put Your Records On by CorinneBaileyRaeVEVO on YouTube
Its lyrics – music facilitating self-acceptance – have autobiographical notes: “As much as Leeds is a really ethnically-diverse place, you can still feel different as a person who has, you know, a Black parent and a white parent,” Bailey Rae said.
Growing up, she says, she’d sometimes felt “on the margins.” “I really wanted to play the cello, but we didn’t have a car. So, my mum was like, ‘What about the one you can carry?’ So, I ended up playing the violin, and I really enjoyed that. …
“I sort of noticed things like that – like, Oh, we don’t have a car. Oh, we don’t have a telephone. We didn’t have a lot of money, but it wasn’t a sad thing.”
Initially, Bailey Rae said, she felt “sad” about her voice, “because it had all this texture.” But that changed when she heard the voices of Billie Holiday and Kurt Cobain. “It was like, You are welcome in this space. Their songs don’t necessarily have to be, you know, shiny and perfect. And that just made me feel like I could be in music.”
The release of her first album, in 2006, catapulted her to the top of the charts, and into new company. “Stevie Wonder called me,” she said. “Prince came to one of our shows.”
Corinne Bailey Rae. CBS News
But, in 2008, everything changed, when her husband and band member Jason Rae died of an accidental overdose. “It felt at that time to be the sort of end of my life,” she said. “It was just, like, such a huge amount of pain.”
Asked how she dealt with her grief, Bailey Rae replied, “I say a thing that someone said to me in the hospital. She said, ‘Oh, grief is a long journey. We’re all gonna lose people, you know? If we’re lucky to have a long life, we’re just gonna see other people just going, you know, through that door.’ And there’s something really, you know, beautiful about knowing that.
“I think it’s such a complex emotion because it’s sort of, like, the sadness of losing someone, but also the awareness of how beautiful, you know, life is, and how it’s a beautiful thing that everyone you know, you have that much time with them,” she said.
There was nothing from Bailey Rae for about two years until, amid the grief of losing Jason, she released her second album, “The Sea.” It was produced by Steve Brown, who had always just been a professional collaborator. “Actually, [it was] Jason’s mother who first said to me, you know, ‘What do you think of Steve?’”
She was the matchmaker? “She is just a really intuitive woman,” said Bailey Rae. “I felt it was two things: One was, I like this guy. But another thing was sort of like, We as the family kind of give you permission to, you know, move forward with your life, which just was a very beautiful thing of her to do.”
The couple married in 2013, and now have two daughters. “It was like having a second chance,” said Bailey Rae. “So, I do think of my life as having these two – kind of like a before and after.”
Bailey Rae released two more studio albums to critical acclaim, if not all-out commercial success; and she has been recognized in her hometown, with a sculpture, “Ribbons,” by artist Pippa Hale. “This is a beautiful sculpture that came out a few years ago, and it has more than 300 names of women who are from Leeds who’ve made an impact in culture – some suffragettes, some politicians, some artists.” Including Bailey Rae.
“Ribbons,” which names prominent women from Leeds. CBS News
Earlier this year, she released a children’s book – the title recalling her chart-topping song. “I wanted to write about how music can heal you, that music can sit with you in any emotion, and music can be your friend,” she said.
The book is part of a year-long celebration of her first album. There’s also a tour, which she kicked off at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival in England, singing those hits from 20 years ago that first made her famous.
In May, Corinne Bailey Rae performed songs from her 2006 debut album at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival. CBS News
Asked if the success of “Put Your Records On” was a weight upon her, Bailey Rae replied, “I think when someone does really well, everyone wants you to kind of win in that particular way again. You know, the music industry is really brutal. They really want you to be commercially successful.”
And she? “I mean, yeah, definitely. But it was funny. With that first record, I wasn’t thinking like, ‘Oh, this is gonna be – ‘ Like, I had no idea that it was gonna be successful in that way. We made it in a basement studio with no windows. So, it wasn’t like I went in with a certain kind of ambition. I just wanted to make the songs work.”
She says rebirth is a big theme for her: “Because there’s a possibility, every single time, of starting again. You know, any age and any space, you can sort of hit reset and do it again and go back into the fire, transform, and be out as a new thing, you know, every single time.”
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Extended interview: Corinne Bailey Rae 21:14
You can stream the 2006 album “Corinne Bailey Rae” by clicking on the embed below (Free Spotify registration required to hear the tracks in full):
For more info:
- corinnebaileyrae.com|Tour info
- “Put Your Records On” by Corinne Bailey Rae, illustrated by Gillian Eilidh O’Mara (Rocky Pond Books), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available viaAmazon, Barnes & Noble andBookshop.org
- Thanks toThe Hi-FiClub, Leeds, England; and toThe Wardrobe, Leeds, England
Story produced by Robbyn McFadden. Editor: George Pozderec.