Christine Isobel Correa (born July 8, 1955) is an American jazz singer of Indian origin.

Life and work

Correa is from a musical family; her father Micky Correa led big bands in India.^[1] As a child she sang and played piano.^[1] In 1979, she moved to the U.S. and attended the New England Conservatory of Music, where her teachers included Jaki Byard, Ran Blake, and Joe Maneri.^[1] She worked with the quintet of Frank Carlberg, in ballet music for the Battery Dance Company. She teaches at Columbia University and is the director the Maine Jazz Camp.^[2]

Discography

With Ran Blake

• Round About (Music & Arts, 1994)
• Out of the Shadows (Red Piano, 2010)
• Down Here Below: Tribute to Abbey Lincoln Volume One (Red Piano, 2012)
• The Road Keeps Winding: Tribute to Abbey Lincoln Volume Two (Red Piano, 2015)^[3]
• Streaming (Red Piano, 2018)
• When Soft Rains Fall (Red Piano, 2021)

With Frank Carlberg

• Ugly Beauty (Northeastern, 1993)
• The Crazy Woman (Accurate, 1995)
• Variations On A Summer Day (Fresh Sound New Talent, 1999)
• In The Land Of Art (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2002)
• State of The Union (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2005)
• The American Dream (Red Piano, 2007)
• Uncivilized Ruminations (Red Piano, 2009)
• Big Enigmas (Red Piano, 2012)
• Word Circus (Red Piano, 2014)
• No Money In Art (Red Piano, 2016)