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English singer/songwriter Corrine Bailey Rae has plotted her first North American tour in three years as she supports her brand-new album, "The Sea."
The Grammy-winning artist will start the trek April 9 in Vancouver and work her way along the East and West Coasts. The 13-date club and theater outing currently finishes up May 14 in Baltimore.
Rae releases her sophomore set, "The Sea," today (1/26) on Capitol Records. The 12-track album includes songs influenced by the 2008 death of her husband, Jason Rae.
"I feel like I've been playing music and writing and using music to help me with all the different emotions that I've been feeling," Rae explained in a recent interview with NME magazine. "When I started writing ['Are You Here'] I was thinking, 'I don't really want this song to go into the world, 'cause it's so naked...' But I had to."
Rae dropped her self-titled debut in 2006, snagging the No. 1 spot on both the UK Albums chart and UK R&B chart, as well as No. 4 on The Billboard 200.
The set earned the performer three 2007 Grammy nominations: Song of the Year for "Put Your Records On," Record of the Year and Best New Artist.
The following year, Rae took home a Grammy for Album of the Year for "River: The Joni Letters," which Herbie Hancock produced and which also featured Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Tina Turner, Norah Jones and Luciana Souza.
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