Corinne West
{{Short description|American singer-songwriter}}
{{About|the American singer-songwriter|the late American painter|Corinne Michelle West}}
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| birth_place = Los Angeles, United States
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| instrument = Acoustic guitar
| occupation = Singer-songwriter, guitarist
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Corinne West (born 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and acoustic guitarist. She was born and raised in California.
Biography
At 15, while in school at Claremont High, West left home with guitar in hand to travel across America in a converted school bus. She sang in hard rock bands in Los Angeles when she was a teenager. West studied theater while enrolled at Feather River College in her mid-twenties. She restored antique biplane wings, worked as a stonemason in the rural mountains of California, and opened a fine art business in fused-glass and metal in Quincy, located in the Sierra Nevada mountains, with David Duskin (born 1974), a blacksmith.
She is known for her singing and original songwriting which is based in Americana music. Her songwriting has met with much critical acclaim and secured her a position as a finalist in the 2005 New Folk competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival. In July 2006, West was featured in an interview on the BBC Radio 2 program, Bob Harris Country, which led to a tour of England and Ireland in early 2007.
West's debut CD, Bound For the Living, was released in 2004. Her second album, Second Sight, which followed it in 2007, featured a number of notable guests, including dobro player Jerry Douglas, mandolinist Mike Marshall, and Darol Anger on fiddle.HomeGrown Music. [http://www.homegrownmusic.net/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=CW2&Category_Code=cpkv Corinne West: Second Sight.] Retrieved September 16, 2010. In 2009 she released a third CD, The Promise, which she co-produced with Doug Cox and recorded in Canada.
West has toured extensively, which have included performances at acclaimed festivals and clubs through the United States and abroad. In 2010 and 2011 she toured extensively as a duo with fellow songwriter and guitarist Kelly Joe Phelps. The pair released a CD in 2010 entitled Magnetic Skyline.BBC. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/55j9 Corinne West & Kelly Joe Phelps Magnetic Skyline Review] Retrieved January 8, 2012.
In 2013, West began touring with her newly formed band featuring Pam Delgado (née Pamela Denise Delgado; born 1964) and Jeri Jones (née Jeri Ellen Jones; born 1958) from Blame Sally.{{URL|http://www.corinnewest.com|Corinne West's official website}}
Discography
- Bound for the Living, Make Records, (2004); {{OCLC|318080794}}
- Second Sight, Make Records (2007)
- The Promise, Make Records (2009); {{OCLC|767690887}}
- Magnetic Skyline, with Kelly Joe Phelps, Make Records (2010); {{OCLC|669772713|937814189|842802210}}
- Starlight Highway, Make Records (2015); {{OCLC|967975431}}
Collaborators
- Doug Cox and recorded in Canada
- Kelly Joe Phelps
Family
West was born in Los Angeles to Jim Donald Brondino (born 1942), an educator, and Jeanne Marie Anderson, an author (maiden; born 1942). They divorced in 1983. West has a younger brother, Darin Brondino. Corinne – under her birth surname, on November 3, 1999, in Quincy – married artist David Urquhart Duskin (born 1974).
Notes and references
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"Public Notices – Doing Business As: 'Duskin Designs,{{'-}}" Feather River Bulletin (Quincy), September 13, 2000, p 8A (accessible via {{URL|https://www.newspapers.com/image/165599640|Newspapers.com}}; subscription required)
Wood, Arthur. [http://www.visnat.com/entertainment/music/folkwax/mp3/bio.cfm?artistnumber=2384 Corinne West: Always Moving On.] (archived July 17, 2011, at [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717224654/http://www.visnat.com/entertainment/music/folkwax/mp3/bio.cfm?artistnumber=2384 Wayback Machine]; registration required, but free) FolkWax (bygon e-zine, Arthur Wood, founding editor, Birmingham, England)
"Folk Musician Gets A-List Help," by David Steinberg, Albuquerque Journal, September 7, 2007, p. 21 (accessible via {{URL|https://www.newspapers.com/image/206730478|Newspapers.com}}; subscription required)
El Espiritu (Claremont High School yearbook), "Sophomores – Corinne Brondino" (1986), p. 209
"Arts & Entertainment – Rehearsals in Full Swing for Li'l Abner," Feather River Bulletin (Quincy), October 7, 1992, p 8B (accessible via {{URL|https://www.newspapers.com/image/162197405|Newspapers.com}}; subscription required)
[http://www.fishrecords.co.uk/reviews/thepromise.html Corinne West – The Promise] (archived July 18, 2011, at {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20110718195053/http://www.fishrecords.co.uk/reviews/thepromise.htm|Wayback Machine}}) (review/description by Fish Records, retailer), album released 2009 (article retrieved September 16, 2010)
"Corinne West Finds Her Place With the West Coast Sound" (CanWest News Service), by Roger Levesque, Calgary Herald, October 1, 2009, p. E3 (accessible via {{URL|https://www.newspapers.com/image/487632109|newspapers.com}}; subscription required)
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External links
- {{Official website|https://corinnewest.com/}}
- {{YouTube|channel=UCMgI21Z5TVrPBTkotoqhx8Q}}
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Category:American folk musicians
Category:American women singer-songwriters
Category:Singer-songwriters from California
Category:Feather River College alumni