Authority control databases: Artists
Authority control databases: Artists  |
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Corinne West | |
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| Birth name | Corinne Marie Brondino |
| Born | 1970 (age 53–54) Los Angeles, United States |
| Genres | Folk, Americana |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, guitarist |
| Instrument(s) | Acoustic guitar |
| Labels | Make Records[i] |
| Website | corinnewest |
Corinne West (born 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and acoustic guitarist. She was born and raised in California.
At 15, while in school at Claremont High,[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]
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.[4][5] 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.[6]
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.[7] In 2009 she released a third CD, The Promise, which she co-produced with Doug Cox and recorded in Canada.[8][9]
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.[10]
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.[11]
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).