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Celebrities are rarely who you think they are, but the discrepancy between the soft-spoken Corinne Bailey Rae of her early magazine profiles and the outspoken musician in front of me today is surprising all the same. “In the British press, I was seen as boring and straight,” says the singer, who is now 45 and still lives in her hometown of Leeds. “I was making acoustic music, wearing these kinds of old-fashioned dresses.” She raises her eyebrows. “I was also married. I was so not interesting to them.”
