Christine Correa


Christine Isobel Correa is an American jazz singer of Indian origin.

Life and work

Correa is from a musical family; her father Micky Correa led big bands in India. As a child she sang and played piano. In 1979, she moved to the U.S. and attended the New England Conservatory of Music, where her teachers included Jaki Byard, Ran Blake, and Joe Maneri. She worked with the quintet of Frank Carlberg, in ballet music for the Battery Dance Company. She teaches at Columbia University and is the director the Maine Jazz Camp.

Discography

With Ran BlakeRound About Out of the Shadows Down Here Below: Tribute to Abbey Lincoln Volume One The Road Keeps Winding: Tribute to Abbey Lincoln Volume Two Streaming When Soft Rains Fall
With Frank CarlbergUgly Beauty The Crazy Woman Variations On A Summer Day In The Land Of Art State of The Union The American Dream Uncivilized Ruminations Big Enigmas Word Circus
  • ''No Money In Art''