2024-04-13 18:28:50
Once beautiful, always beautiful: In 1999, Andrea Corr’s face was voted the most beautiful in the world. The singer has hardly changed over the years.
In his annual search for the most beautiful face in the here and now, film critic TC Candler, who is particularly revered in entertainment circles, found what he was looking for in Ireland in 1999. Where the seas are rough and the coasts are green, the sibling band The Corrs was on the verge of their international breakthrough. The pop-folk trio from the small town of Dundalk was led by the dark-haired lead singer Andrea Corr. At the time of the election she was 25 years old.
When asked about the band’s beginnings and the sibling spirit, Andrea Corr said the following during an appearance on the British television show “This Morning”: “We’ve never known it any other way. Our parents made a lot of music and took us with them at a young age Took a boat. I still remember our father teaching us to play the piano. It was a great time.”
With her band, in which she played with her older siblings Caroline, Sharon and John, Andrea Corr celebrated worldwide success at the beginning of the new millennium. The Corrs collected awards and gold records like other people collected stamps. In addition to music, the Irishwoman also tried her hand at acting for a while. But Andrea Corr was happiest on stage.
After the release of the album “Home” in 2005, the band withdrew somewhat and devoted themselves to private developments. In the following years, Andrea started her solo career and married the successful software entrepreneur Brett Desmond. The couple had their first child, a daughter named Jean, in 2012. Two years later, son Brett Jr. was born.
Andrea and Brett’s happiness also had to survive some difficult downturns. In an interview in 2019, Andrea Corr spoke for the first time in front of cameras about her five miscarriages: “They were terrible moments. At some point you automatically ask yourself whether you can ever become a mother. My family was supportive of me the greatest support at that time,” said the singer and actress, who also published a book in the year of the interview. In “Barefoot Pilgrimage” she describes her youth and the first years with the band.
As if time had stood still in the Corr house
In the here and now, the award-winning band is celebrating the release of their best-of record “Best of the Corrs”. On the cover of the album you can see the four siblings during their millennium heyday. What is striking: Visually, Andrea Corr has hardly changed. Sure, the shiny black hair has gotten a little longer. Otherwise, the reflection of the young woman and the now 49-year-old Andrea are almost identical.
If you watch the singer on her Instagram page these days singing Christmas songs while peeling potatoes in the kitchen a few months ago, you might think that time in the Corr house had simply stood still.
You have to be honest: It wouldn’t be surprising if the name Andrea Corr were still high on the famous TC Candler Beauty of the Year list today.