Yale Schwarzman Center
Corinne Bailey Rae
The “Put Your Records On” singer has unveiled a new song titled “New York Transit Queen.” The track serves as the lead single to her forthcoming project Black Rainbows. The collection will be available on September 15.
Black Rainbows is inspired by the objects and artworks collected by Theaster Gates at the Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago, according to a press release.
I knew when I walked through those doors that my life had changed forever,” Bailey Rae said in a release. “Engaging with these archives and encountering Theaster Gates and his practice has changed how I think about myself as an artist and what the possibilities of my work can be. This music has come through seeing. Seeing has been like hearing, for me. While I was looking, songs/sounds appeared.