{"id":182286,"date":"2025-06-13T23:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T23:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/182286\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T23:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T23:14:10","slug":"corinne-bailey-rae-working-on-childrens-book-put-your-records-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/182286\/","title":{"rendered":"Corinne Bailey Rae working on children&#8217;s book, &#8216;Put Your Records On&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/corinne-bailey-rae-black-rainbows-review-af924e67f2c10f4050b30d5d451f3ee5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corinne Bailey Rae<\/a> is working on a children\u2019s picture book that draws upon her early memories of music.<\/p>\n<p>The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has a deal with Rocky Pond Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, for \u201cPut Your Records On.\u201d Named for her signature hit and illustrated by Gillian Eilidh O\u2019Mara, the book is scheduled to come out March 3, 2026, and tells the story of a young girl\u2019s initiation into her great aunt\u2019s record collection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was a child, music helped me find myself. Through songs I discovered that others felt what I felt,\u201d Rae said in a statement released Wednesday. \u201cPlaying music grew my confidence and writing and performing my own music allowed me to fully express myself. I want every child to know that they have music in their heart and a voice that should be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rae, 46, has sold millions of records worldwide and won two Grammys \u2014 as a contributor to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/herbie-hancock-memoir-set-for-oct-28-release-25edb39db98f49c78c99f641f313661b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Herbie Hancock\u2019s<\/a> 2007 tribute album to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/joni-mitchell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joni Mitchell<\/a>, \u201cRiver,\u201d and for her cover in 2011 of Bob Marley &amp; The Wailer\u2019s \u201cIs This Love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: June 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Corinne Bailey Rae is working on a children\u2019s picture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,5775,6417,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-182286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-network","11":"tag-things-to-do","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114678599719543194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}