Born and raised in Singapore based in Los Angeles and making a huge splash these past few years on the L A indie pop rock scene and beyond May is truly a citizen of the world Two continents specifically as the spiritual minded ethereal voiced artist s self titled debut scored both in the U S where she won the New Folk Award at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas and later throughout her native Asia upon distribution deals in Japan Hong Kong Taiwan and her home island of Singapore While performing at famed L A clubs such Genghis Cohen and The Mint The Bitter End and The Living Room in New York and Club Passim in Boston May s music was also taking off overseas Her video for Fly Away received significant airplay at MTV Asia Her song Journey was featured on the Taiwanese drama At The Dolphin Bay and was covered by popular Asian singers Angela Zhang and Gigi Leung May also recorded a cover of the classic hit Close To You for the Columbia Tri Star movie So Close in 2003 and recently sang for Hong Kong s most popular music television show Jade Solid Gold Corrinne s latest album Safe in a Crazy World recently spent 2 weeks at 1 on Singapore s RIAS best selling albums chart Singapore s equivalent to US Billboard charts besting albums by Mariah Carey Gwen Stefani Rob Thomas Listen to Corrinne May at http www corrinnemay com May s voice is instantly intoxicating beautiful and adept Performing Songwriter Magazine INDIE INGENUE CORRINNE MAY FINDS SPIRIT AND SAFETY IN A CRAZY WORLD Ethereal Award Winning L A Based Singer Songwriter Follows Self titled 2001 Debut a hit in U S and Her Native Asia With Soul Stirring Adult Contemporary Set Safe In A Crazy World Debut featured track co written with Carole King and Carole Bayer Sager Hit Video Fly Away which Played On MTV Asia With the May release of Safe in a Crazy World her second independent release on Pink Armchair Records Corrinne May is getting ready to stir the spiritual longings and grab the heartstrings of her th

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Kids StuffWe get asked over and over don t you think the movie s not going to work somewhere I say it s not Americana so much as it s about kids In India in Japan in Argentina theyare looking and saying this is what I m going through Rich Ross president of Disney Channel Worldwide on High School Musical which has been a huge international success BURBANK Calif IN a sunny corner office at Disney Channel headquarters here two junior executives were charting the course by which High School Musical has been commandeering the television sets of the world s teenagers A feel good story that sets West Side Storyish themes to catchy tunes that recall Grease the movie has already been seen by an estimated 40 million Americans most of them in high school or middle school themselves It s won another 7 5 million fans in Europe 10 7 million in Latin America and no one knows precisely how many in Asia The next horizon is Africa And so the question at hand was Should a South African drum corps record a new promotional version of one of the anthemic songs As the young executives debated the question they carefully watched for the response of their audience who not coincidentally was their boss Rich Ross the president of Disney Channel Worldwide which created the film and gave it its premiere on its main domestic cable network But his mind was starting to drift to something they had laid on the coffee table before him Oh my God he said picking up the prototype of the latest High School Musical toy It s a Magic 8 Ball He tore off the packaging and began to shake it furiously like a child at his eighth birthday party Mr Ross was looking for the answer to a silent question which he later somewhat sheepishly articulated as How much more How much indeed As the head of 62 Disney channels and their offshoots Mr Ross probably has more influence than anyone else on the television that young children and adolescents are watching these days not just in this country but also in many of the

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