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Candie Payne

 
Artist: Candie Payne
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Similar Artists:

Duffy, Lucky Soul, The Pipettes, Portishead

Influenced By:

Ennio Morricone, Jane Birkin, Françoise Hardy, Serge Gainsbourg, Burt Bacharach, Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, Nina Simone

Formal Connection With:

Noonday Underground
  • Active: 2000s
  • Genres: Rock
  • Instrument: Performer
  • Representative Albums: "I Wish I Could Have Loved You," "I Wish I Could Have Loved You More"

Biography

A singer/songwriter with a bent toward '60s influenced pop with indie rock edge, Candie Payne was born in Liverpool in 1983. However, she spent much of her youth in Jackson Heights, Queens, NY, where she moved with her parents until returning to England at age ten. The sister of musician brothers Howie Payne – formerly of the Stands -- and drummer Sean Payne of the Zutons, Payne first spent time studying art in college before dropping out to pursue music. Influenced early on by such iconic jazz vocalists as Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, Payne also listened to heavily to a wide variety of pop and rock music that she ultimately brought to bear on her own songs. After working with various local Liverpool bands, Payne was introduced to producer Simon Dine and the duo began writing together. Evincing a '60s girl group- and Motown-influenced vibe, Payne's debut album, I Wish I Could Have Loved You More, featured the Mark Ronson-produced single "One More Chance" and was released on Sony in 2007. ~ Matt Collar, All Music Guide
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Candie Payne

Candie performing at Glastonbury Festival in 2007
Background information
Born 1983 in Liverpool, England
Years active 2006 – present
Label(s) Deltasonic/Columbia Records
Website Official website, MySpace page

Candie Payne (born 1983) is an English singer-songwriter from Liverpool. She released her debut album, I Wish I Could Have Loved You More, on Deltasonic in May 2007. She is the sister of singer/songwriter Howie Payne, former frontman of band The Stands and Sean Payne, the drummer of The Zutons.

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Biography

Payne was born in Liverpool in 1983. Aged four, her family she relocated to New York City before moving back when Payne was 10. Initially shunning music, Payne pursued a career in visual art, attending art college and working in a vintage clothing shop in Liverpool town centre.[1] However, Payne became disenchanted with her studies and, after performing with a friend's band, exchanged her interest for music. She was then introduced to Simon Dine of Noonday Underground with whom she began composing songs.

In 2006, Payne release two singles, "By Tomorrow" and "Take Me". These preceded her debut album, I Wish I Could Have Loved You More, which was released in May 2007. The single "One More Chance", produced by Mark Ronson, followed in September of that year.

In November 2007, The Times Magazine looked ahead to Liverpool's year as the European City of Culture in 2008 by featuring Payne on its cover alongside Liverpuddlian singer Cilla Black and Abi Harding of the Zutons, who was engaged to Payne's brother Sean - "How Liverpoool got its mojo back".[2].

In December 2007, she sang a version of "Oh My God" with Mark Ronson and Ricky Wilson on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. Soon after this appearance, Ronson asked Payne to appear on his 'Version' tour in 2008. The tour covered the UK, Europe and the US and major festivals including the Glastonbury festival, Global Gathering and the Montreux Jazz Festival. Payne, however, found the tour intense for personal reasons. Payne says it "was an incredible opportunity and I gained so much experience from it, but it was also an escape because I was going through a devastating breakup at the time. I slept and drank my way through a lot of it, and I lost a hell of a lot of weight too".[3]

Style

Payne sings 60s-inspired pop. Soul singers Minnie Riperton and Roberta Flack are among her influences. Her pet hate is 'over-singing'."[4]

Some fashion writers reflected on Payne's and Harding's influence on Liverpool's "underground band scene", drawing a contrast with the "brassier" style of local WAGs such as Alex Curran and Coleen McLoughlin (partners of footballers Steven Gerrard and Wayne Rooney). Sunday Times Style remarked early in 2008 that the fashionable Korova bar in the city's Fleet Street "is so cool, you can sense Liverpool evolving from a city full of in-your-face show-offs into something far more knowing":

The girls here are different from their brassier neighbours. Yet, if they're indie, they're still a glossy version. Peroxide bobs, red lipstick, polka-dot shirts, good heels ... They are inspired by local success storie such as Abby [sic] from the Zutons and Candie Payne - and united in their dislike of Curran and co ... "Lots of girls think she [Curran] is it, but it's a pretty sad life to be 25 and only go shopping" [5].

Discography

Singles

  • "All I Need to Hear" - July 2006, limited 7"
  • "Take Me" - September 2006, limited 7"
  • "By Tomorrow" - November 2006, download only
  • "I Wish I Could Have Loved You More" - May 2007, CD / 7" / download. This single reached #84 in the UK Official Singles Chart.
  • "One More Chance" (produced by Mark Ronson) - September 2007, CD / 7" / download. This single reached #122 in the UK Official Singles Chart.

Albums

Appears on

References

  1. ^ http://www.ukmusic.com/features/interviews/lifes-sweet-for-candie-payne.html
  2. ^ Times Magazine, 10 November 2007
  3. ^ "Candie Payne on Myspace". http://www.myspace.com/candiepayne. Retrieved 2009-09-10. 
  4. ^ Young, gifted and ... out on their own, The Guardian, September 2, 2007.
  5. ^ Jessica Brinton in Sunday Times Style, 30 March 2008

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