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Key facts
- Origin
- Dundalk , County Louth, Ireland
- Genres
- Pop rock folk rock Celtic fusion
- Years active
- 1990–2006 2015–present
- Labels
- 143 Lava Atlantic Eastwest Warner Bros.
- Members
- Andrea Corr Caroline Corr Jim Corr Sharon Corr
- Website
- thecorrsofficial .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Corrs are an Irish family band consisting of siblings Andrea (lead vocals, tin whistle, mandolin, ukulele), Sharon (violin, keyboards, vocals), Caroline (drums, percussion, piano, bodhrán, vocals) and Jim (guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals). Their music combines pop rock with traditional Irish themes. They are from Dundalk in County Louth, Ireland.
The Corrs have released seven studio albums and numerous singles that have reached Platinum in many countries. They have sold 40 million albums worldwide. Talk on Corners, their most successful album to date, reached multi-Platinum status in Australia. In the UK, it was the highest selling album of the year. The band is one of a small number of acts who have held the top two positions simultaneously in the UK album charts, with Talk on Corners at number one and Forgiven, Not Forgotten at number two. Talk on Corners was the year's third highest selling album in Australia. The band's third studio album, In Blue, went to number one in seventeen countries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Corrs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.