The Corrs

The Corrs
Clockwise from top left: Andrea, Caroline, Jim and Sharon Corr
Background information
Origin	Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland
Genres	Alternative rock folk rock Celtic pop rock Celtic fusion
Years active	1990–2006, 2015–present
Labels	143, Lava, Atlantic, Eastwest
Website	www.thecorrswebsite.com
Members	Andrea Corr Caroline Corr Jim Corr Sharon Corr

The Corrs are an Irish band that combine pop rock with traditional Irish themes within their music. The group consists of the Corr siblings, Andrea (lead vocals, tin whistle); Sharon (violin, vocals); Caroline (drums, percussion, piano, bodhrán, vocals) and Jim (guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals). They are from Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland.

The Corrs have released six studio albums and numerous singles, which have reached Platinum in many countries, and have sold 40 million albums worldwide.Talk on Corners, their most successful album to date, reached multi-Platinum status in Australia and in the UK it was the highest selling album of 1998. The band is one of only a handful of acts who have held the top two positions simultaneously in the UK album charts, with Talk on Corners at number one and Forgiven, Not Forgotten at number two. The latter was the third highest selling album in Australia in 1996, behind Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill and Celine Dion's Falling Into You. Their third studio album, In Blue, went to number one in seventeen countries.