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Two years after the sudden death of her husband, Corinne Bailey Rae returned in early 2010 with a new album, The Sea, which was largely influenced by that tragedy. She came up with the songs in a much different manner than those from her debut album – and that process was a big part of her healing. During an interview with Live From The Artist Den, she revealed, “I was sort of making it up, as I went along. I wasn’t trying so hard. When I was playing the chords, I was just kind of singing things out, sometimes recording it, but sometimes not, and just singing along. And it’s the stuff that stuck that I felt the song was meant to be. Other times, I’d be walking around the house singing something new, and say to myself, ‘Now, what was that?’ And it eventually ended up on the album…it was a much less conscious process. It was just me in a room playing my guitar, and with all this stuff coming out… trying to sing words without thinking about what they meant or putting a filter on them. That was really an important part of the process.”  
The Sea has won massive critical acclaim, even being nominated for Britain’s prestigious Mercury Prize. Rae picks up her current tour in early October, with the first stop being her hometown of Leeds, England.